After the batter raises his bat high to re-prepare for the strike, Shibata throws a belt-high spiral ball toward home plate with a flick of his right hand.

"Whew!"

"Ping!"

A baseball that fell diagonally from the top of the left hitting area at a speed of 116 km/h to the edge of the center of the outside corner was hit by the bat, swept past by Taro Fukuda.

"Smack!"

Unfortunately, because it was not handled properly, the baseball that landed in front of the home plate flew high and was caught by Takasho Shibata, who walked forward down the pitcher's mound.

“retire.“

Takashi Shibata turned and waved his arm to pass the ball to first base, then was caught by first baseman Ryosuke Hiroi's outstretched ball sleeve and blocked the runner Taro Fukuda, who ran next to him.

"Three outs, attack exchanges." After the first base judge raised his right hand forward to make the decision, the presiding judge asked the players on the court to exit the court and switch sides.

Although the opponent let the hitters, including himself, go up and down three times, Jinguji, who had been prepared for a long time, ran out of the rest area and trotted over to the pitcher mound in front of him as soon as the game was over in the second half of the eighth inning.

On the pitcher's mound, Jinguji bent down and grabbed the magnesium powder packet on the ground to exchange it with the chief judge, and after receiving the new powder bag handed to him by the chief judge, he threw it vigorously while waiting for the catcher to be in position to start the pre-match pass warm-up.

"In the first half of the ninth inning, the attack of Chikukan Wakayama High School, three bats, first baseman, Hiroi-kun."

A minute after the pitcher changed the magnesium powder pack, when the announcer finished broadcasting, Tomoku, who had already stepped into the right hitting area, Wakayama hitter Ryosuke Hiroi lowered his head and swept the ground, and he stood on the hitting area with his legs apart, and after knocking on the home plate with the bat in his left hand, he put his right hand on it.

“play ball!“

Holding the bat with both hands, he waved forward, and after the referee reached out his right hand to signal the start of the first half of the ninth inning, Ryosuke Hiroi stopped his movements, raised the bat upwards and turned his head to look at the pitcher.

"Whew!"

The pitcher followed the code to throw a straight ball from the inside corner of home plate, but because the ball was low, Naoya Kuruza could only catch the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound at a speed of 142 km/h close to the hitter's right foot.

"Bang!"

After throwing a bad ball at the opening pitch, Jinguji threw a belt-high curve ball toward home plate with a wave of his arm.

"Whew!"

With the batter not swinging the bat, Kuraza opened his sleeve behind the low inside corner and caught the baseball that moved diagonally down from the strike zone at a speed of 127 km/h.

"Bang!"

“good shot.“ The referee raised his right hand upwards and signaled that the pitcher's curveball was good.

"Whew!"

After a good shot and a bad goal, Jinguji threw an outside corner curl ball that was too low (not too high at the knee) and smashed down to the touchline behind the left zone at a speed of 131 km/h.

"Smack!" The baseball that smashed on the sideline of the left-hit area flew out of bounds to the left and landed on the sand outside the infield touchline.

“bad shot.“

When the number of balls was one good and two bad, Jinguji followed the catcher's code and threw a knee ball high on the way of home plate with a wave of his arm.

"Smack!"

Halfway through the swing, the baseball that flew to the top of the left hit area fell diagonally to the ground next to the catcher's right foot at a speed of 127 km/h, and then covered it with a cover reached by the catcher.

“Strike.“ The referee raised his right hand upwards to signal that the hitter had missed the shot.

After tricking the hitter with an outside curveball to swing the bat, Jinguji waved his arm and threw a low ball from the outside corner towards home plate.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

The pitcher's near-knee two-seam fast ball fell longitudinally in front of home plate at 130 km/h, and when he fell forward to the corner of the good ball zone, the batter swung his bats just over the falling baseball.

"Bang!"

At the same time that the batter's swing missed, Kuraza Naoya's ball sleeve stretched forward and firmly grasped the baseball thrown by the pitcher Jinguji senior.

“Strike out.“ The referee clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it upwards to signal that the hitter was knocked out by the pitcher.

Ryosuke Hiroi, who failed to swing the bat, was full of remorse, and shook the bat forward twice with both hands before stepping away from the right-hand zone and running forward to the rest area on the first base. At the same time, the announcer's voice sounded over the court: "In the first half of the ninth inning, the attack of Chikuba Wakayama High School, four bats, catcher, Hashimoto-kun." ”

Ryohei Hashimoto stood outside the right hitting area, waved his bat with his left hand, and then clasped his hands together, turning his head to look at the pitcher on the pitcher's mound while holding the bat up and waiting for the strike.

"Whew!"

"Ping!"

Faced with the pitcher's belt-high ball thrown towards home plate, hitter Ryohei Hashimoto swung his bat and knocked it out as it moved diagonally down at 124km/h to the back of the high area in the outside corner (close to the belt).

"Smack!" The baseball hit by the baton flew out of bounds along the sideline to the left, and the third baseman standing on the sideline raised his hands upward.

"Out of bounds!"

Jinguji followed the code given to him by Kuraza, shook his right hand and continued to throw a knee high ball to home plate.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

After tricking a batter who chose to swing aggressively, he swung his arm at the baseball and dropped diagonally from above the left hitting area to the sand behind home plate.

"Boom!"

After the downward-reaching ball failed to catch the baseball that landed at 124 km/h, catcher Kuroza Naoya had to get up and pick up the baseball that rolled forward from the referee's feet.

“Strike.“ The referee raised his right hand upwards to signal that the hitter had missed the shot.

With just one last good ball to get his second out, Jinguji threw his arm into home plate in the drizzle.

"Smack!"

The pitcher's baseball smashed directly into the sideline of the left-hand zone at 130 km/h, and then flew into the belly of the kneeling catcher, where it was caught by the ball sleeve he placed in front of his abdomen.

"Bang!"

Naoya Kuraza got up from behind home plate, took out the baseball he had just received and handed it to the chief judge, then took the new baseball from the chief judge, and reached out and threw it to the Jinguji senior who was standing on the pitcher's mound.

When the batter next to him raised his bat and was ready to strike, he gave a secret signal to Jinguji senior, who was standing on the pitcher's board, to make a low ball from the outside corner.

It is best if you can trick the hitter into swinging the batter with a bad ball that is a little out of the way, of course, if the hitter does not swing the bat, there will not be much loss, as long as he is solved with an inside corner kick later.

"Whew!"

Jinguji followed the catcher's code and threw a near-knee two-seam fast ball to home plate at a speed of 133km/h.

"Smack!"

As soon as the pitcher's arm swings the baseball into home plate, it begins to fall vertically, and then when the batter swings more than halfway through the stroke, the baseball that falls down to the ground in the batting area rebounds forward, and is grabbed by the ball sleeve that the player has opened upwards in the spot.

"Bang!".

“Strike out.“

When the batter was knocked out by the pitcher for swinging more than half of his bat, and his face was full of reluctance and remorse, the presiding judge standing behind the catcher made a fist with his right hand and raised it upward, after which his upward index and little fingers indicated that the semi-finals of Seido vs. Chikuba Wakayama were only one last number of outs to be over.