Tetsuya Yuuki clapped as he walked back to second base, stood next to the base, and made a celebratory gesture with his right fist before he began to take off the braces at his elbows and ankles and hand them to his teammates who came over to help him.

"Pause!" After Ryohei Hashimoto applied to the chief judge for a timeout, he ran to the pitcher mound in front.

"Uchino!"

The infielder formed a circle with the catcher and the pitcher on the pitcher's mound, and catcher Ryohei Hashimoto was the first to say to the pitcher who was wiping his sweat with his sleeves: "Calm down! Filial piety. ”

"It's only two points and it's going to come back very quickly." Kento Tatsuda, the third baseman next to him, also chimed in.

……

"Ah Liang, Qingji, after this round, you must find a way to get to base in the next round."

"Huh?!" As soon as Ryohei Hashimoto's words fell, shortstop Kusumoto and second baseman Yu Kiyoji were very surprised by this, and Kusumoto even stretched out his right index finger to point at himself, feeling that the catcher's request was a bit difficult.

"Then Hiroi and I will send you back." Faced with the surprise of the shortstop and second baseman, Hashimoto chose to ignore it, slapped the third baseman standing next to him on the chest with a fist with his right hand, and continued to say the words he used to calm the pitcher's emotions.

"Me?!" Third baseman Ryosuke Hiroi was also surprised by this.

After selectively ignoring the surprise of the third baseman, Ryohei Hashimoto walked up to the pitcher, looked him in the eye and said, "It's going to be reversed!" So let's pitch with peace of mind! ”

"Good!" Takamori Takenaka tapped his fingers, then opened his sleeve to catch the baseball he handed over.

"Okay, let's end this round first!" Everyone gathered in a circle and put their hands on their knees, and Ryohei Hashimoto shouted at the others, "Cheer up, everyone!" ”

"Come on!" After the others finished shouting with him, Tomoku and Ukayama ended their timeouts, allowing the catchers and infielders to disperse and return to their positions to be guarded.

(PS: I don't want to write a plot like this that describes the pause.,After all, I don't want to copy the original book like other fandom.,So it's hard and watery.,But in order not to let people continue to say that the content of the game is monotonous.,I can only take some time to write it.。 ）

As soon as the timeout ended in less than a minute, the announcer's voice sounded again from above the court: "In the second half of the fifth inning, the attack of Seido High School, seven bats, right fielder, Ota-kun." ”

Hiroshi Ota lowered his head and swept the ground with his feet before standing on the batting area, holding the bat in his left hand from the bottom up in front of his right shoulder, and turning his head to look at Takasho Takenaka, who was standing on the pitcher's board.

"Whew!"

After throwing a containment ball to first base, Takasei Takenaka, who returned to home plate, threw a knee-high straight ball (135km/h) with a clear outward swing, and was caught by catcher Ryohei Hashimoto, who was crouching behind the junction between the left hitting area and the home plate.

"Bang!"

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

The pitcher's near-knee diagonal straight ball flew into the good ball area at 135km/h, but was touched by the batter Hiroshi Ota who swung past the low position in the outside corner.

"Ding!"

The baseball flew high in the air in a collision with the bat, and then flew out of bounds to the side and back.

"Whew!"

"Boom!"

After the ball count reached one good and one bad, Takenaka swung his arm and threw the third ball directly into the left strike area, and instead of catching the baseball that bounced back to the ball after landing, the catcher reached for the ball sleeve to bounce into it, but let it pop out of bounds in the collision with the ball sleeve.

"Smack!"

Driven by the belief that his mistakes would be reversed by himself, Ryohei Hashimoto hurriedly got up and chased the baseball that rolled to the left waiting area.

"Senior Murasuke, don't slip!"

Takamori Takenaka, who ran to home plate to make up for the spot, reached forward to catch the baseball from the catcher in the waiting area, and then twisted his left hand to touch the runner who was about to step onto home plate.

“out.“

Because of the reminder of Naoya Kuraza, who was standing on the right side of the waiting area with a bat in his hand, Taiki Murasuke, a runner who was running from third base to home plate, was about to step on the home plate when he was touched by the pitcher's baseball sleeve first, and was announced out by the referee's raised right hand forward.

If he had just opted to slide, Murasuke would have been able to avoid the pitcher's outstretched ball sleeve and touch the home plate to score another point for the team, but in that case, he would have collided with the pitcher who was coming at him in an extreme way, resulting in injury.

In the case that his side has a large advantage, as Kuraza reminded him just now, there is really no need to risk injury to fight for this 1 point.

"Two outs, only the last one is out."

The pitcher, who had walked back to the pitcher's mound from home plate, made a two-out gesture to his teammates around him, and when Hiroshi Ota regained his footing in the right hitting area and turned his head to look at him with his bat held high, Takamori Takenaka, who was already standing sideways on the pitcher's board, stepped forward with his leg raised, waved his arm to the home plate, and threw a straight ball diagonally near the knee in the inside corner.

"Whew!"

The pitcher's baseball flew from the pitcher's mound to the top of home plate at a speed of 132 km/h, and after the hitter stopped to swing the batter because the ball was too low, the baseball was caught by the hitter placed in front of the hitter's right knee.

"Bang!"

“good shot.“ The referee clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it upwards to indicate that the number of balls was now two good and two bad.

"Whew!" Following the catcher's code, Takenaka waved his arm and continued to throw a low diagonal straight ball at home plate.

"Huh!" The pitcher's diagonal right angle began to fall before it flew into the good zone, and as it flew past the low edge of the good zone at a speed of 135 km/h, the batter Hiroshi Ota swung out with a hard swing just swept past the low corner of the box.

"Bang!" Ryohei Hashimoto, the catcher, stretched forward the ball cover that had been placed next to the knee of the hitter's right leg (the condition before the hitter did not swing the bat) and grabbed the baseball that had just flown over the home plate.

“Strike out.“ The referee clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it forward, and after the Seido hitter was knocked out by Chikuba and Wakayama aces, the game in which Seido attacked in the second half of the fifth inning ended with only one point from Chido and Wakayama and a remnant of second base.

……

"Okay, let's go!"

The halftime break after the second half of the fifth game was only three minutes, and when the announcer began to announce the names of the players guarding the various positions, the Qingdao people rushed onto the field under the leadership of captain Dong Qingguo!

"In the first half of the sixth inning, the attack of Chikaku Wakayama High School, Nine Sticks, Shortstop, Kusumoto-kun." The warm-up time for the players on the field is only a short 40 seconds, and when the time comes, the announcer's voice will sound on time.

Jinguji stretched out his ball sleeve and took the baseball from the second baseman, then turned and walked back to the pitcher's mound, bent down to grab the magnesium powder bag that had been thrown next to the pitcher's board, and pinched it.

Kusumoto kicked the ground a few times with his left foot before standing on the left hitting area, turning around with the bat in his right hand, and after turning his head to look at the pitcher on the pitcher's mound, he grasped the bat with both hands, flung it forward, and then raised it high in the air, waiting for the pitcher's pitch.