Chapter 302: Qingdao vs Chibi Wakayama (6)
"Whew!"
At the catcher's request, Sakai threw a near-knee slider into home plate at 126km/h across the corner of the strike zone and into the catcher's holster behind home plate.
"Bang!"
"Good shot!" As catcher Naoya Kuroza took the baseball out of his sleeve and was about to raise his hand to throw it back to the pitcher, the referee clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it upwards.
"Whew!"
Yu Sakai threw his arm towards home plate and reached near the knee at 116km/h before moving diagonally down to the right.
"Ping!"
The baseball, which moved diagonally down to the middle and low position, was hit by the bat's wave and flew backwards sharply.
"Smack!"
After the baseball flying from home plate landed in the outfield, it bounced forward a few times before Taiki Murasuke, who ran out of the outfield, grabbed it with a ball sleeve.
"Safe base."
It's a pity that Takasan Takenaka, the runner of Chikuba Wakayama, also ran to first base because of this midfielder's front hit, so that the midfielder didn't have time to pass to first base after receiving the baseball he hit in the past.
Takasei Takenaka stepped on the base bag with his right foot, and after he reached out to take off the handguard at his elbow and bent down to take off the leggings on his ankle, the radio sound above the court sounded again: "In the first half of the second inning, the attack of Chikuro Wakayama High School, nine bats, second baseman, Kusumoto-kun." ”
Hitter Kusumoto holds the bat tightly in the grip position with both hands, lifts it upward, turns his head to look in the direction of the pitcher's mound, and twists his waist while waiting for the pitcher to start throwing.
"Whew!"
Yu Sakai swung his arm to home plate and threw a high slide ball from the inside corner of the home plate, flying at a speed of 125km/h to the chest of the batter who was about to hit the batter.
"Ding!"
The pitcher's pitched baseball just turned outward and hit the bat, which the hitter held flat above the inside of home plate, flew high to the left.
"Smack!"
After the baseball that was spotted by the bat landed near the sideline of the infield, Tetsuya Yuuki, the third baseman who ran from third base, chose to wait and see if the baseball could roll out of the sideline after landing, but he did not expect the baseball rolling on the sand to stop when it rolled outward to the sideline.
"The catcher is here to fill in the position, hurry up and run back." Tomokushi Wakayama in the baserun instructor area suddenly shouted at Takamori Takenaka, a runner in front.
When the third baseman reached out to pick up the baseball that was parked on the sideline, and the runner Takasei Takenaka, who was in the middle of the second and third bases, was about to sprint forward, the catcher who was originally staying next to the third baseman and waiting for the baseball to land was out of bounds, and he just ran to third base to fill in the position.
After receiving the cue from his teammates, Takasei Takenaka turned his head to look at Naoya Kuraza, who was standing on the third base bag and spread his case forward for the third baseman to pass the ball, so he could only turn around and run back, and finally get to base safely before the shortstop received the pass from the third baseman.
In the first half of the second inning, with no one out and someone on first and second base, Seido will face the attack of Chikuro and Ukayama on the top line.
"In the first half of the second game, the attack of Chikaku and Wakayama High School, a stick, a Chinese fielder, Furumiya-kun."
Koto Furumiya stands on the left hitting area, holds the bat in both hands and holds it up high, turning his head to look at the pitcher on the pitcher's mound and waiting for the ball to be bowled.
"Whew!"
Sakai swung his arm and continued to throw his inside corner knee high at home plate, speeding past the hitter's thigh at a speed of 124km/h and sideways across the side of the good ball zone.
"Huh!"
"Ping!"
The baseball, which moves laterally through the good ball area to the back of home plate, is about to fall into the catcher's open ball sleeve forward, and the batter is ready to swing past the low post area in the outside corner to hit, and then fly high and quickly through the middle line to the depths of the field.
"Boom!"
The fielder Murasuke Taiki, who was guarding in front of him, desperately chased after the baseball that went straight into the middle of the field, but when the baseball fell near the home run wall, he hurried and hurried, and he still didn't have time to get to the vicinity of the landing point.
"Smack!"
After hitting the field lawn, the baseball bounced forward three times and collided with the home run wall before being picked up by a midfielder who came from behind.
“Run.“
By the time Daiki Murasuke turned to the left and waved his arm to pass the ball to the shortstop in front of the center-left fielder, runner Takamori Takenaka stepped over the home plate to score the second point of the game for Tomokayama, and another runner, Kusunoto Yuya, had already crossed third base and was sprinting to home plate.
"Smack!"
Taro Fukuda jumped up with his legs on the ground, stretched his left hand forward to grab the baseball passed by the midfielder, and when it was too late to pass the ball to home plate to kill the runner, he saw the runner Katsuto Furumiya, who was still sprinting forward after running past second base, and decided to pass the ball to second base.
"Safe base."
When Koren saw the shortstop preparing to pass the ball, he hurriedly turned around and flew back, and before the pitcher who came to fill in the position caught the baseball passed by the shortstop waving his arm, he took the lead in touching the base bag of second base with his hand.
“Run.“
Meanwhile, runner Kusumoto also happened to run past home plate to score the third point of the game for Chikuro Wakayama and narrow the gap to one point.
"Good! Good! Good! "Koto Furumiya stood on second base, his left hand clenched into a fist and raised upwards, loudly celebrating his long hit.
"In the first half of the second inning, the attack of Chikuba and Wakayama High School, the second baseman, the second baseman, Kamiha-kun."
With the runner not leaving the base, Kiyotsugu Kamiha, the second batter, stood in the left hitting area during the announcement, waved the bat with his right hand, and then clasped his hands tightly, turned his head to look at the pitcher on the pitcher's mound, flung the bat forward, and then erected it upwards to wait for the pitcher's pitch.
"Whew!"
"Bang!"
In order to avoid the hitter's touch, Hiroshi Sakai threw a low and out-of-the-box straight ball to home plate at the request of the catcher, with a speed of only 95 km/h.
"Whew!"
When the catcher asked for an inside curve, Sakai threw a baseball at 124km/h and smashed it on the hitter's right shoulder.
"Smack!"
"Not good!"
Seeing that something was wrong, Kuraza Naoya hurriedly stretched the ball sleeve placed low in the outer corner to the player's shoulder, trying to catch the ball before the baseball thrown by the senior hit the hitter, but unfortunately it was unsuccessful.
"Touch the ball!"
The presiding judge raised his hands upwards with his palms outward, then reached out and patted his right shoulder to signal the pitcher to throw the dead ball, and stretched out his right hand in the direction of first base for the hitter to get on base.
Kiyoshi Kamiwa walked to first base with the team after a simple treatment of his right shoulder with a painkiller spray with the help of his teammates.
Naoya Kuraza ran to the pitcher's mound with the infielders to comfort the pitcher, and then signaled to him with his eyes that the pitcher must be changed immediately when the overseer refused to change the pitcher immediately. Otherwise, with Senior Sakai's current state, the follow-up points will be at least two points or more, and it is possible to lose this game directly.
Faced with the catcher's self-determination, Superintendent Kataoka could only reluctantly nod his head to agree to the catcher's substitution request, and then walked out of the rest area to ask the referee for a change.