Chapter 40: Seido vs Kansai (4)
Kentaro Matsuda, a Seishichi catcher, watched Naoto Araki stand forward and guessed that the opponent was trying to prevent Yagami from changing the ball and striking at his fast straight ball.
With that in mind, he signaled Yagami Yagami on the pitcher's mound, took a small step outward, opened and set the ball cover.
Yagami nodded, turned the baseball in his hand with his left hand behind him, raised his leg and waved his arm, and the center of gravity of his body leaned forward, throwing the baseball in his hand out.
"Whew!"
Kansai Batter Naoto Araki looked at the baseball speeding from the pitcher's mound and swung the metal bat in his hand vigorously.
"Huh!"
"Ping!"
The bat that was swung by Naoto Araki hit the baseball that was speeding from the pitcher's mound, but it didn't hit the center of the ball, causing the flying baseball to fly upside down towards the sideline of third base after being hit by him.
"Smack!"
Yagami caught the baseball thrown by the referee, put it in the ball cover in his right hand, bent down and pinched the magnesium powder bag at his feet, and then took out the baseball from the ball cover and spun it in his hand.
After getting ready, Yagami looked at the code given to him by Matsuda-senpai, and after a few deep breaths, he threw the baseball in the palm of his hand with a flick of his arm.
"Whew!"
Naoto Araki danced his arms vigorously, and the metal bat swept a cloud of wind pressure above the home plate.
"Huh!"
The metal bat that Naoto Araki swung out, and the baseball that scurried towards home plate on the pitcher's mound collided violently.
"Ping!"
At the same time as the explosion sounded, the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound was hit by Naoto Araki, and flew straight upside down and flew in the direction of the left field.
Kentaro Matsuda immediately stood up and shouted, "Left outfield!" ”
By the time Kito Fujii, the left fielder of Aodo, picked up the baseball that had fallen deep in the left field and turned to make a return pass, Naoto Araki had already taken this opportunity to run to the base at second base.
Second base hit!
Catcher Kentaro Matsuda immediately asked the referee for a timeout and ran up to the pitcher's mound, carefully examining Yagami's current mood, and seemed to be relatively calm.
"Yagami, they haven't scored yet, and at the moment we are still ahead."
"Don't worry, Matsuda-senpai, I'm fine."
Kentaro Matsuda saw that Yagami was not reluctant in the slightest, so he nodded, turned around and returned to the back of home plate to squat again.
Although Yagami said that he was not affected by the second base hit, he was still knocked out a first base hit by Kansai Ni Sakaki, who came to the court in the back, and at the same time as he went to first base, he also sent Naoto Araki to third base.
The next Kansai three-stick Naotoshi Sugiyama used a high-flying sacrifice shot to send runner Naoto Araki back to home plate to score, and he ended up out.
After that, Yagami adjusted his form and took the Kansai four-batter Ueda Goshi out of the game after hitting an outfield flying ball.
"It's tied! The Kansai hitters took advantage of the fact that the Aodo pitcher's form was affected and tied the score. The score between the two sides is now 2:2. ”
Yagami finished the fifth game, and ran back to the rest area of the Qingdao with the others.
Superintendent Kataoka glanced at him and said, "You have to reflect on the mistake you made just now when you go back at night, and you can't make such a mistake again in the future." ”
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In the first half of the seventh inning, after the Kansai four batter Ueda Tsuyoshi stood in the hitting area, he moved the wrists of both hands, waved the metal bat in his hand, and assumed a posture waiting for the strike.
Kiyodo catcher Kentaro Matsuda looked at the Kansai hitter Ueda Tsuyoshi in front of him, and compared his code to Jinguji on the pitcher's hill and posed for the ball cover.
Jinguji nodded at this, turned the baseball in his hand, raised his legs, and shook his arm, throwing the baseball out of his palm.
"Whew!"
Ueda looked at the baseball speeding from the pitcher mound, and without the slightest hesitation, he vigorously waved the metal bat in his hand.
"Huh!"
"Ping!"
The baseball flying from the pitcher's mound was hit by Tsuyoshi Ueda and flew towards third base.
"Out of bounds!"
Jinguji took the baseball thrown by the referee and threw the baseball in his palm according to the code given by the catcher Kentaro Matsuda.
"Whew!"
Fast straight ball in the inside corner!
Ueda remembered what the supervisor had told him, if he saw a fast straight ball in the inside corner, swing the bat a little earlier.
Ueda danced his arms and swept over the home plate with the metal bat in his hand.
"Huh!"
The bat, which was vigorously swung by Tsuyoshi Ueda, and the baseball that was speeding up the pitcher's mound collided with each other on the top of home plate.
"Ping!"
The baseball flying from the pitcher's mound was knocked high by the bat swung by Tsuyoshi Ueda, and flew upside down in the direction of the right field with the sound of explosions after a violent collision.
"Right outfield!"
Hiroshi Ota looked at the baseball flying high in the air after being knocked away by Ueda Tsuyoshi, and ran all the way to the fence in the outfield, but when he was about to hit it, the baseball still showed no signs of landing.
"Home run! Kansai four bats, Ueda-kun also hit their home run! This is the 10th home run of the tournament! The score was 6:3, and Kansai recovered a point. The narrator also began to get excited.
After asking the referee for a timeout, Kentaro Matsuda ran up to the pitcher's mound to comfort the pitcher.
"Jinguji, there was a problem with my ball just now, and the current score is still up to us." Kentaro Matsuda comforted.
Jinguji retracted his gaze from behind him, smiled at Kentaro Matsuda in front of him, and said, "I can now understand how Kansai's pitcher felt after being hit by our home run......"
"Don't worry, I'm fine."
Kentaro Matsuda nodded, ran down the pitcher's mound to return to the back of home plate, and crouched again.
Like Yagami before, Jinguji said that he was not affected by this home run, but he was still knocked out by Kansai's third baseman and five-baseman Shota Shota on second base; After that, the six batters who came on the court were also their catcher Ohara, and he knocked out another hit from Jingu Teraichi and went to first base.
Kansai Seven Sticker Nakamura Masaki, who played as a pitcher in the first five innings, changed his position from pitcher to right fielder after their supervisor changed pitchers in the sixth inning.
The Kansai players are different from the Seido players at some point, and the Seido players will only be fixed in a certain position most of the time, and at most they will change between several positions in the outfield and infield as outfielders or infielders. Among the players in Kansai, most of them are similar to the players in Qingdao, but there are also several people who have several positions as guards, such as: Nakamura Masaki is a right fielder and substitute pitcher, plus his hitting level is okay, and sometimes he will play on behalf of him; Kawabe, a classmate of Masaki Nakamura, is a backup catcher and bench pitcher, and sometimes competes with second-year Yasui Kazuhei for the first base.