Chapter 301: Qingdao vs Chikuba Wakayama (5)
"Whew!"
"Bang!"
At the request of the catcher, Takamori Takenaka threw a straight ball (135km/h) straight to the home plate that reached the top of the left hitting area, and while adjusting his condition, he first tested the hitter with a bad ball.
"Whew!"
After Naoya Kuraza raised his bat and re-entered the position of waiting for the strike, Takasei Takenaka swung his arm to home plate and threw the ball into the near belt, turning inward from the outside area of the outside corner at a speed of 133km/h.
"Bang!"
Catcher Ryohei Hashimoto spreads his case forward and catches the pitcher's baseball in front of the hitter's abdomen.
“Nice pitch.“
As the presiding judge raised his right fist upwards, Ryohei Hashimoto stood up and flicked his right hand back to Takasei Takenaka on the standing pitcher's mound.
"Whew!"
According to the catcher's new code, Takamori Takenaka swung his arm towards home plate and threw a knee-high slide ball at 128km/h, then turned to the right and diagonally at a small angle to the good ball area.
"Huh!"
Kuraza swung the bat from his shoulder forward, but it was a little too late, and when the baseball crossed the low corner area, the bat he swung vigorously followed suit.
"Bang!"
Ryohei Hashimoto opened the ball in front of the hitter's right thigh (where Naoya Kuraza had not swung the bat) and caught the baseball flying towards him after crossing the good ball area.
“Strike.“ The referee clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it upwards to signal that the hitter had missed the shot.
"Whew!"
Takamori Takenaka threw a low-lane and out-of-the-way variable ball at home plate at a speed of 116 km/h, and then fell to the ground vertically on the ground before the baseball flew from the pitcher's mound due to the low ball path that flew over the left hitting area at 116 km/h.
"Smack!"
Ryohei Hashimoto reached out in front of his right foot and grabbed the baseball that was about to bounce upwards after landing on the ground.
"Whew!"
"Smack!"
Takasei Takenaka continued to throw the ball into home plate that was too low, and once again smashed the ball longitudinally on the left-hand zone, and the ball speed was still 116km/h.
“Bad balls 3.“
After Takasei Takenaka had a hard time throwing the ball like the Seido ace, catcher Ryohei Hashimoto placed the ball sleeve in front of the hitter's right knee and signaled to the pitcher to ask for the game.
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
Takasei Takenaka threw a near belt carter ball to home plate, and when he moved laterally to a position a little higher in front of the belt at a speed of 132 km/h, he encountered the batter Naoya Kuraza and swept the bat into the middle of the outside corner.
"Smack!"
The baseball falls down next to the sideline of the right-hitting zone on contact with the bat, then rolls right over home plate and left-hand zone, and finally rolls forward from the sand outside the field into the infield.
"Out of bounds!" As the pitcher runs down the pitcher's mound to pick up the baseball, the officiator at home plate raises his hands up.
Naoya Kuraza, who was standing outside the batting area, clenched his bat with both hands, swung it vigorously, turned his head to look at the rest area behind him, and then walked back to his original position and stood up.
"Whew!"
As the batter raised his bat and turned his head to look at him, Takasei Takenaka waved his arm and continued to throw a near-belt carter ball at home plate, moving inward at a speed of 133 km/h from the non-good zone outside the good zone.
"Ping!"
The baseball, which had moved laterally to the middle of the inside corner, was hit by the bat that was swung away by Naoya Kuraza, and flew high along the sideline.
He turned his head to glance at the baseball that was hurtling along the sideline toward the left field, then let go of the baseball and ran past first base in front of him.
"Smack!"
Standing at third base, with his legs spread out to either side of the sideline, he raised his hands up after seeing a batter's flying baseball fall next to the left fieldline.
"Out of bounds!"
After hitter Naoya Kuroza ran back to home plate from first base, stood long on the right batting area and raised his bat aloft to re-prepare for the strike, Takamori Takenaka threw the speed ball back to home plate at the catcher's request.
"Whew!"
The pitcher's pitch at home plate at 118 km/h, then makes a slight turn to the right, creates an angle, and begins to fall longitudinally.
"Bang!" Ryohei Hashimoto spreads his sleeve forward and catches the longitudinally falling baseball on the edge of the hit zone.
“Base on Balls.“
After the pitcher threw the bad ball, Kuraza turned around and walked out of the batting area, put down his bat and took off the guard at his elbow, then the foot pad on his ankle, and finally trotted along the infield sideline to first base amid the sound of the radio from above the court.
"In the second half of the first inning, the attack of Qingdao High School, nine bats, pitcher, Tanba-kun."
After Koichiro Tanba lowered his head and leveled the ground, he waved his bat under him with both hands, turned his head to look at the pitcher on the pitcher's mound, and raised the bat to wait for the blow.
"Ping!"
Faced with a near-knee straight ball thrown by the pitcher, Koichiro Tanba did not hesitate to swing the bat out and hit the baseball that flew to the low position of the outside corner.
"Smack!"
The baseball hit by the bat's bat bounces to the right on the sand in front of the left batting area, and then bounces high forward.
"Bang!"
Standing on the pitcher's mound, Takamori Takenaka reached out to the left to catch the baseball bouncing off home plate, then ran sideways down the pitcher's mound and passed the ball to first base.
“retire.“
First baseman Ryosuke Hiroi opened his case forward to catch the pitcher's pass, and when the first base behind him saw this, he immediately clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it forward, signaling that the runner was blocked by the defender.
"Seido High School asked for a change of players: pitcher Sakai for Tanba; Ninth bat, pitcher, Sakai. ”
After a minute's warm-up, Yu Sakai, who ran up to the pitcher's mound, sounded again on the radio over the court: "In the first half of the second inning, the attack of Chikuba Wakayama High School, eight bats, pitcher, Takenaka-kun." ”
After the announcement sounded, Takasei Takenaka stopped swinging his bat and stepped into the right-hand shooting area in front of him.
Sweep the ground in the hitting area with your foot, raise your right foot and kick the sand a few times before standing on the hitting area with your legs in front and back, and raise the bat in your left hand from the bottom up, clenching your hands together, and turning your head to look at the pitcher on the pitcher's mound.
"Whew!"
Following the code given to him by Kuraza, Sakai stepped forward with his leg raised, waved his arm and threw a knee-high slide at home plate, which flew to the non-good zone on the left side of home plate at a speed of 128 km/h, and then turned to the right and moved laterally.
"Bang!"
Kuraza moves the case outwards and catches the baseball that doesn't fly out of the flyball area after turning to the right.
After asking the referee for a timeout, Kuroza Naoya took the baseball out of his sleeve with his right hand, got up and walked over to the pitcher's mound.
"Senior, take it easy, don't be nervous." After handing the baseball in his hand to Senior Sakai, Naoya Kuroza continued to speak: "I made a mistake in the ball just now, and when I knew that the senior's slide was not complete, I also gave the senior a tricky slide ......."
"Bad balls at the beginning are really my problem!"
For the consolation of the catcher, Sakai Yu turned around with a baseball in his right hand and nodded to him, and without saying anything, he let him leave directly.