Chapter 310: Qingdao vs Chikuba Wakayama (14)
Jinguji stepped forward with his leg lifted and threw his arm into home plate to throw a straight ball from the near belt, which flew to the edge of the outside corner at 129km/h.
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
When the pitcher's baseball was about to fly in front of him, Ryosuke Hiroi swung the bat in his hand that he had lifted upwards, and what he didn't expect was that the baseball began to fall before it went to home plate, although the drop was so small that it could barely be seen through video slowdown, but the bat staggered away from the good ball area and the flying baseball at a distance, and then rushed down into the ball sleeve that the catcher placed behind the low position in the outside corner.
"Bang!"
“good shot.“ The referee clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it upwards to signal that the ball was good.
"Whew!"
Jinguji threw the third ball with a wave of his arm (the ball speed is 129km/h), but due to the high speed of the ball, not only did the change time be too late, but even the curve that moved down was too gentle, and it looked more like a slider than a curveball, and it rushed straight into the belly of the hitter.
"Bang!"
Kuraza Naoya leaned his ball cover against the back, trying to avoid the belly of the batter who touched the baseball, and grabbed the falling baseball to avoid a dead ball.
"Whew!"
After the ball count came to two good and one bad, Jinguji shook his head one after another like the previous ball, asked the catcher to change the code, nodded directly in agreement with the catcher's code to him, raised his leg and stepped forward, shook his arm, and threw an out-of-the-knee high-finger cross ball to home plate.
"Huh!"
The baseball flew to the left side of home plate at a speed of 128 km/h, and when the batter was about to hit it, it suddenly fell vertically, causing the batter to miss.
"Bang!"
When the baseball is about to fall into the case, he raises his right hand and puts it down on the ball to prevent the baseball from rolling out of the cover and into the ground if it is not connected.
“Strike out.“ When the referee raised his right hand to make a decision, the live broadcast of the game also shouted: "Strikeouts! ”
When the hitter turned around and walked back to the rest area on the first base, Jinguji took a kick-off ball from the Kuraza and passed it back to him, and then stretched out his right hand to gesture for two innings, "Two outs, only the last one is missing." He then bent down to grab the packet of magnesium powder that had been dropped next to the pitcher's mound.
"In the first half of the fourth game, the attack of Chikuba and Wakayama High School, four sticks, catcher, Hashimoto-kun."
After the announcer finished broadcasting, the four-batter Ryohei Hashimoto spread his legs to the sides and was already standing on the right hitting area, holding his bat high and turning his head to look at the pitcher on the pitcher's mound.
"Whew!"
Jinguji followed the catcher's signal and threw a knee-high pitch at home plate with a wave of his arm, and the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound fell vertically forward at 119 km/h in front of home plate.
"Huh!"
Ryohei Hashimoto, who felt that he should have guessed the way of the ball, did not rush to swing the bat, waited for the baseball to fly into home plate before swinging the bat from top to bottom, and swept it out of the right field when it flew out of the good ball area and was about to fall into the ball sleeve that the catcher had placed in front of the knee of his right leg.
"Ping!"
The baseball hit by the batter spun past second baseman Yuki Tanaka before smashing down in front of the right field.
"Smack!"
The baseball bounced forward twice after hitting the right field, smashing directly into the abdomen of right fielder Hiroshi Ota, who ran from deep in the field, and then he grabbed it with the ball cover.
"Whew!"
After receiving the ball, Hiroshi Ota immediately stepped forward and waved his arm to pass the ball to home plate.
"Boom!"
Unfortunately, Hiroshi Ota didn't have the strength to pass the ball directly to home plate, and the baseball he threw with his arm smashed down on the pitcher's mound where the pitcher had left, and then bounced towards home plate.
“Run.“
By the time catcher Naoya Kuroza caught a baseball bouncing off home plate in front of the right-hand zone, Katsuto Furumiya, a runner at second base, had already slid onto home plate, and he reached out and patted his thigh before turning around and leaving home plate.
"In the upper half of the fourth inning, the attack of Chikuba Wakayama High School, five bats, third baseman, Tatsuda-kun."
Kento Tatsuda, a batter with his legs apart, stood on the left side of the ball, held the bat with both hands and waved it, then turned his head to look at Jingu Teruichi standing on the pitcher's board, and raised his bat up in wait for the blow.
"Whew!"
Jinguji threw a diagonal straight ball at a speed of 140 km/h next to the hitter's right arm, quickly passed over the home plate, and then grabbed the ball sleeve raised by the hand above the sideline of the right hitting area.
"Bang!"
With his right hand, he took out the baseball from the ball sleeve and threw it back to the Jinguji senior standing on the pitcher's mound, and then when the senior was ready, Kuroza Naoya gave him a low diagonal straight ball.
Jinguji looked at the code that the catcher had compared to him, took back his right hand behind his back, placed it in the ball sleeve on his chest, and then stepped forward with his left foot, stretched his right arm back, and swung the baseball in his palm towards the home plate in front of him.
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
At a speed of 141 km/h, it rushed from the side of the hitter's thigh into the hit zone, and when it flew out of the hit zone and was about to fall into the catcher's sleeve behind home plate, the hitter Kento Tatsuda swung his bat from left to right and sent it high into the air.
"Ping!"
In the case that he didn't play well and hit a high-flying ball, Kento Tatsuda could only hurriedly turn around and run to first base, and after throwing away the bat, he turned his head to look at the center and left outfielder, and on the other side, the footsteps under his feet did not stop, and he galloped towards first base.
"Smack!"
Murasuke Daiki, a midfielder who ran deep in the center left field, spread his sleeve in front of his head, caught the baseball that fell from the sky, and took the runner who had not yet run to first base out.
“retire.“
……
While Tomoku and Ukayama players on the field were passing the ball to each other to warm up, except for Namiki and Ita, who stayed in the base instructor area as base instructors, the remaining Seido players were gathering on the bench outside the rest area, and the part of the group that would not soon be on the court to hit was drinking ice water, and soon the part of the group that was about to hit was talking to their teammates who had not yet played in this game, and changing their equipment with their help.
"In the second half of the fourth inning, the attack of Seido High School, the nine bats, the pitcher, Jingu Temple-kun."
When the announcer's voice sounded above the court, Jinguji had already changed his equipment and left the rest area, and was walking from the waiting area to the right hitting area at home plate.
Jinguji stopped outside the hitting area, held the bat with both hands and waved it before stepping forward, and then lowered his right hand after bowing his head and tidying up the ground.
Stand on the right hit area with his legs spread apart, shake the bat under him with both hands, and then lean on his right shoulder from the bottom up, then he raises the bat up to wait for the blow while turning his head to look at the pitcher's mound.