"Blocked! The first baseman returned to base in time after catching a short hit from Aomichi's six, and won the last number of outs for Toyo Ōhimeji in the eighth inning, which was the top half of the ninth inning, and the score was currently 4:5, with Seichi taking the lead temporarily.

"In the first half of the ninth inning, the last chance of Toyo Oehimeji, it is their turn to play the line in the center, can they achieve a reversal at the last minute? Let's wait and see! ”

Outside the rest area on the third base, Superintendent Kataoka is giving one last instruction to the Qingdao players who are preparing to go on the field.

"Yagami, Miyuki, try to pitch and match the ball according to your own wishes, and if necessary, you can use four bad balls to send the opponent's batter to base, and even conceding 1 point is acceptable."

"The game has come to this point, although you can rest assured that your seniors will be relieved, even if the opponent overtakes the score, they will chase the score back in the second half of the game."

After Superintendent Kataoka finished talking to the shots, he turned to the players guarding the inner and outer fields: "The outer field guards should pay attention to the opponent's long hits, and if there are people on the base, the infield should prevent the opponent from attacking." ”

"Understood!" Yagami and Tetsuya Yuuki nodded in response to the overseer's instructions, then turned around and ran towards the arena.

Superintendent Kataoka, who was still standing in place, waited for everyone to run onto the field before turning around and returning to the rest area.

"Senior, I'm not going to lose any more points, and if I can, it's best not to even give them first base." Before the two sides separated, Mikoichi also said this to Yagami Yagami.

"Got it, you kid is so ambitious." Yagami raised his gloves and patted Miyuki's shoulder: "In order not to disappoint my junior, I, as a senior, will try my best to do it at this point." ”

"Senior, then you have to do what you say!"

Turning a deaf ear to Miyuki's words, he waved his hand and walked up to the pitcher's mound, leveling the ground that had already been trampled unevenly with the soles of his shoes.

Looking up at the second batter standing not far from home plate, Tetsuya Nagano, who played on behalf of the No. 15 batter.

“play ball!“

After Yagami finished the warm-up with Mikokazuya passing the ball to each other, Tetsuya Nagano, the second batter, grabbed the bat with both hands and raised it, and made a posture on the left hitting area to prepare for the strike, and the referee stretched out his right hand forward and gave the order to start.

Yagami took a deep breath and stepped forward with his right leg, swinging his backward raised arm out, and the baseball was pushed out of his palm as his left hand swung to the extreme, like a white light galloping towards home plate.

"Whew!"

The pitcher throws a high slide ball into home plate with an inside belt, which speeds 141 km/h under the hitter's right arm and moves laterally towards the nearby good ball zone.

"Huh!"

Tetsuya Nagano, who played on behalf of the pitcher, did not hesitate to swing the bat in his hand when facing the pitcher's first ball, and drew an afterimage in front of catcher Miyuki Kazuya, which collided violently with the baseball that had been displaced laterally in the high area of the outer corner.

"Ping!"

Yagami Yagami threw a baseball that was smashed into the right area by the batter's bat, and Mikoichi also stretched out the ball sleeve to the right area, but unfortunately he couldn't catch the baseball that bounced upwards after hitting the ground, allowing it to fly high forward.

"Boom!"

Tetsuya Nagano turned to the right and glanced up at the baseball that landed behind the right side of the pitcher's mound, released the bat in his right hand, and sped towards first base in front of him.

"Smack!"

Tetsuya Yuuki, a third baseman who had been next to third base, ran from right to left, and when he ran from the infield to the infield area behind the pitcher's mound, he reached forward and grabbed the baseball that had just bounced off after hitting the ground.

"Whew!"

Tetsuya Yuuki received a baseball from the hitter, reached out and took the baseball out of the case, stepped forward, and then waved his arm in front of Yagami to pass the ball to first base.

"Bang!"

First baseman Kiyokuni Higashikiyokuni reached forward to catch Yuuki's baseball passed to him, and then stepped forward to withdraw his right foot from the baseball, while runner Tetsuya Nagano fell on the baseball at first base.

"Porphyry!"

“out.“ The first base judge clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it forward, signaling that the runner was blocked by the guard.

"In the first half of the ninth inning, the attack of Toyo Ōhimeji High School, three sticks, shortstop, Hayashizaki-kun."

After sweeping the ground of the batting area with his foot, the three-bat player Hayashi Ryoshi waved the bat under him with his left hand, and while turning his head to look at the pitcher's mound, he clenched the bat with both hands and raised it.

On the pitcher's mound, Yagami looked at the Toyo Oheji triple batter standing on the right batting area, and he knocked out a home run in the first half of the first inning, and he lost 2 points at the beginning of the inning, which directly caused his psychological pressure to increase under the passage of time.

“play ball!“

After the referee gave him the order to start pitching, he stepped forward with his leg raised, raised his left hand with the baseball and swung it out, threw the belt-high curve ball to home plate, and sped from the left hitting area to the adjacent home plate at a speed of 129 km/h.

"Whew!"

Yagami throws a baseball that moves diagonally downward in a large arc and curves, turns a corner and flies next to the high position area of the outside corner, then passes through the middle high position area, and finally moves diagonally down the middle position area of the outside corner, and catches it in the case of the ball that the hand opens outward.

"Bang!"

“good shot.“

When the presiding judge raised his right hand forward to make a decision, Yukiichi also took the baseball out of his sleeve and threw it back to Yagami on the pitcher's mound.

"Smack!"

After reaching forward with his right hand to receive the baseball from the catcher, Yagami raised his hand and wiped the sweat on his cheeks with his sleeve, he was already sweating after playing for more than two hours in such a hot weather.

It is necessary to take down the batter in front of him, and once he is allowed to base, it will greatly boost the morale of Toyo Oehime, and if they are allowed to connect the lines, it will be an unacceptable result for Seido.

Yu Yukiichi, who was squatting at the back of the home plate, also looked very calm, stretched out his right hand and compared his code to the senior in front of him, a ghost flashed in his eyes, although he was not as good as his predecessors now, but he didn't think that he was joking with the senior of Yagami before the start of the eighth inning.

The next ball, the card ball, senior Yagami, must be thrown here!

Yagami nodded when he saw the code that Miyuki had compared to him, gripped the baseball in the holster with his left hand, raised his right foot, stepped forward, and then waved his arm forward again.

"Whew!"

As the baseball he threw toward home plate floated upward, it bent in a beautiful arc from bottom to top and top down in mid-air, and sped towards home plate at a speed of 119km/h.

"Bang!"

When the belt ball moved diagonally down to the corner of the good ball area in a small arc, it was grabbed by the sleeve that was also moved forward by the catcher Mikoichi.

“good shot.“ The referee clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it forward, signaling that the ball was good.

When the catcher got up to pass the received baseball back to the pitcher, Hayashi Liao held the bat with both hands and swung it forward twice, then bent back while looking at the bat that was held up by himself, inhaling and exhaling heavily.

After stabilizing his mood and adjusting his breathing, Hayashi turned his head to look at the pitcher's mound, clenched the bat with both hands and held it upright, waiting for the pitcher's pitch.