Chapter 308: Qingdao vs Chikuba Wakayama (12)
"Smack!"
Murasuke Daiki immediately turned around and ran back to second base after seeing Kento Tatsuda, the third baseman who was blocking him from getting to base, receive a pass from the shortstop.
Seeing this, Kento Tatsuda could only run forward behind Daiki Mumurasuke, and while running, he passed the ball to Kiyotsugi Yu, who had returned to second base in front of him, so as to continuously reduce the range of movement of runners.
Aiming at the right time, after the third baseman passed the ball to the second baseman, Murasuke Taiki turned around again and ran towards the third base in front of him, even if he couldn't escape the end of being touched after all, he still wanted to buy a little more time so that the juniors behind could take the opportunity to run to second base.
“out.“
When he was about to run to third base, he was touched by the shortstop Kusumoto who ran to third base early to fill in the position with a baseball sleeve, and then the third base judge standing behind him made a fist with his right hand and raised it forward, indicating that he had been touched by the opposing guard.
When Kusumoto walked back with the baseball, runner Tetsuya Yuki stood on the base bag at second base and handed the handguards and leg guards that he had taken off earlier to the team members who came to help.
"In the second half of the fifth inning, the attack of Seido High School, seven sticks, right fielder, Ota-kun."
After sweeping the ground with his right foot, Hiroshi Ota grabbed the bat with his left hand and knocked it on home plate, then picked up the bat and spun it twice in front of him, and lifted it up, clasped his hands together, and turned his head to look at the pitcher on the pitcher's mound.
"Whew!"
Takamori Takenaka waved his arm to throw a straight diagonal ball at home plate, and when the hitter did not swing the bat, Ryohei Hashimoto placed the ball sleeve next to the hitter's right knee and firmly grasped the flying baseball.
"Bang!"
“good shot.“ The referee clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it upwards to signal the diagonal straight ball to be good.
"Whew!"
Takasei Takenaka waved his arm and threw a knee-high straight ball at home plate at the catcher's signal, sprinting from the pitcher's mound to the edge of the good ball area at a speed of 133km/h.
"Huh!"
Senior, wait a minute, after you come on the court, if the pitcher throws the diagonal straight ball on the first ball, the probability that the second ball is a straight ball in the low post is more than 80%, and the probability of throwing a straight ball in the low post is a little greater than the probability of throwing a straight ball in the middle post.
Hiroshi Ota recalled in his mind the advice Kuraza gave him - the pitcher would definitely throw a straight ball in the outside corner for the second ball, swing the bat in his hand to the center of the outside corner area hard, and hit the baseball that was about to fly to the edge of the good ball area, and galloped towards the center and right field.
"Smack!"
The baseball hit by the batter flew from one end of the field to the other and landed on the home run wall, then down the lawn, before being caught by Katsuto Furumiya, a midfielder who arrived earlier than the right fielder, bent over and grabbed it, then waved sideways to pass the ball to second base.
“Run.“
When runner Tetsuya Yuuki stepped over home plate to score another point for Seichi, runner Hiroshi Ota had already stepped past second base, and when he noticed that the midfielder was passing the ball to this side, he stepped back to second base and stood up.
When Tetsuya Yuki ran back to the rest area and high-fived his seniors and peers who were waiting for his return, Hiroshi Ota, who was standing on second base, handed the shin guards and handguards he had taken off to his teammates who came to help.
"In the second half of the third game, the attack of Qingdao High School, eight sticks, catcher, and Tibetan Throne Jun."
When Hiroshi Ota was half-crouching off base, his left hand on his knee, and he looked up at home plate, the eight-batter Kuraza Naoya was standing in the right-hitting area with his legs apart, and his bat was ready to strike.
With the original pattern of the ball being spotted by the opponent, catcher Ryohei Hashimoto took a step out, leaving only his left leg behind home plate, and placed the ball cover near the corner of the good ball after giving the pitcher a signal to the outside corner to curve low.
Standing sideways in front of the pitcher's board, Takasei Takenaka nodded to the catcher's code, stepped forward with his leg raised, and waved his arm to throw a slow curveball at home plate.
"Whew!" The curveball is belted high and flies from the pitcher's mound above the touchline of the left hitting area and moves diagonally down to the right at a speed of 109 km/h.
"Bang!" Ryohei Hashimoto opened the ball behind the intersection of the outside corner and the center, and caught the baseball that fell down from the hit zone.
“good shot.“
When the referee raised his right hand upwards to make a decision, the catcher, who was squatting in place and did not move, shook his head at the pitcher standing on the pitcher's mound.
After the catcher got up and passed the ball back to the pitcher, Kuraza Naoya began to lower his head to level the ground, and when the ground was leveled, he directly raised the bat held on his side from the bottom to the right, and turned his head to look at the pitcher on the pitcher's mound and waited for the pitcher.
Ryohei Hashimoto moves out to the back of the left hitting area and then moves the sleeve outward in front of the knee of his right leg, allowing the pitcher to throw a straight ball in the low post to recover and confuse the hitter.
"Whew!"
Following the instructions given to him by the catcher, Takenaka stepped sideways, waved his arm and threw a low ball into the left hit area, almost hitting the sand in the fall.
"Bang!"
Ryohei Hashimoto extended his open sleeve downwards and caught the baseball flying in front of him at 136 km/h when the pitcher's straight ball was only a short distance from the ground.
"Whew!"
After turning his head to look at the runner standing on the base, Takamori Takenaka pulled his right hand back from the ball cover on his chest, grabbed the baseball downwards and stepped forward with his leg raised, and threw a knee-high slide at home plate with his arm.
"Bang!"
The pitcher's baseball flew to the left side of home plate at a speed of 126 km/h, then turned inward, and as soon as it crossed horizontally against the good ball zone, it was firmly grasped by the open cover of Ryohei Hashimoto.
“good shot.“ The referee clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it upwards to indicate that the ball was good.
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
"Ping!"
The pitcher swung his arm toward home plate and was about to fly into the ball sleeve that the catcher had placed next to the knee of the hitter's right leg, when the batter hit the bat that was swung down by Naoya Kuraza and bounced forward on the sand in front of the right hitting area.
"Smack!"
The baseball flew to the left of the infield sideline after hitting the ground, and the presiding judge standing behind the catcher saw this and raised his hands upward.
"Out of bounds!"
Ryohei Hashimoto took a step outward, placed the ball cover in a low position, and signaled to the pitcher that he wanted to slow the ball in the low post.
"Whew!"
Takamori Takenaka swung his arm to the left hit area and threw a belted high-curved ball, which flew to the catcher's side at a speed of 105km/h and moved diagonally down to the right.
"Huh!"
Kuraza Naoya swung the bat in his hand out of the good ball area in front of him, but unfortunately the choice of timing was a little slower, and the baseball that moved down obliquely just moved down from the front of the catcher's chest, and the batter's bat was late, and the baseball that continued to move downward swept past the catcher's eyes.
"Bang!" At the same time as the batter swung missed, Ryohei Hashimoto opened the ball in front of his abdomen, grabbed the baseball that moved diagonally down from his side, and knocked the batter out.
“retire.“ The referee raised his right fist upwards and signaled to the players on the court that the bottom half of the third inning would be over after the strikeout was knocked out.