After returning to school for dinner, Superintendent Kataoka still summoned the Seido people to the conference room for a meeting as usual, and after commenting on the content of today's game, he began to arrange the starting candidates for the three rounds.

After hearing that Superintendent Kataoka arranged for him to start the game, Yagami was relieved, if he was allowed to sit on the bench in the next three rounds, he would wonder if he was not recognized by Superintendent Kataoka, so he didn't let himself pitch.

After Superintendent Kataoka announced his dismissal, Yagami returned to his room alone, took out his mobile phone, looked through the text messages and emails sent to him by family and friends, and then replied to them one by one.

[Brother Night, congratulations on your three rounds; The day after tomorrow, our women's hardball club will also leave for Ehime Gomatsuyama City to participate in the National Women's Hardball Tournament, and then go to Tamba City, Hyogo Prefecture to participate in the National High School Women's Hardball Tournament, and I hope we can all win the final victory.

Because of Nozomi Yanagi's outstanding performance at the National High School Women's Tournament in Tokyo in July, the National Women's Tournament urged the Japan Women's Tournament to send a wild card invitation to the Seido High School Women's Tournament, which is why Nozomi Yanagi and her team went to Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture to participate in the National Women's Tournament in Tournament that began on the 16th.

In this regard, Yagami replied directly without thinking: [Well, I hope we can all win the final victory], and then pressed the phone, picked up the cylindrical and black and white ball bag with the ball equipment, and returned to the room later than him, but Chris, who was ready early, said: "Let's go." ”

I didn't pitch today, so I have to have a good time with everyone in the future.

The two of them didn't wait long when they went down to the first floor, and the others basically came, and then led by Dong Qingguo, a group of people rushed to the training ground of the middle school baseball club they rented.

After arriving at the training ground, the Qingdao people dispersed, some were doing training in swinging sticks, some were practicing throwing and catching, and the remaining part was the most numerous, and they were practicing on guarding.

……

Seido's match against Fukui Sho was the first on August 16, and the only three days between the second and third rounds passed quickly.

On the morning of August 16, Qingdao got up early to wash up as usual, and then went to the training ground of the middle school they rented for the necessary morning training every day before returning to the hotel for breakfast.

The start of the three-round tournament is expected to start at 8:30 a.m., and the Seido people will board the school bus around 8:00 a.m. and depart for Hanshin Koshien Stadium.

At 7:30, after everyone in Qingdao had breakfast, they went back to their rooms for a final rest. Twenty minutes later, the Qingdao people walked out of the room with their backpacks and ball belts on their backs and went to the first floor to assemble.

At 8:06, the Qingdao school bus stopped outside the Hanshin Koshien Stadium, and the Qingdao people took their backpacks and bags and walked off the school bus, and then walked into the Hanshin Koshien Stadium from the player's passage under the watchful eyes of passers-by.

The stadium staff is tidying up the field, and the players have almost 20 minutes to warm up.

The warm-up time was quickly over, and the referee signaled that the match was about to begin.

Seido and Fukui Sho each lined up and then rushed to the field together under the leadership of their respective captains, and after the two sides took off their hats and saluted each other, Fukui Sho was in charge of the starting players who stayed because they were the attacking side in this match.

After Fukui's pitcher and catcher exchanged a few shots, Taro Fukuda, a batter on Kimichi, walked to home plate and stopped outside the batting area, and after swinging his bat a few times, he walked into the batting area with one hand and stood still.

The chief judge looked at his watch, confirmed that the time had come to 8:30, and raised his hand to signal the official start of the game.

"Buzz-buzz-buzz-"

Air raid sirens sounded punctually above the pitch.

Fukui shogun pitcher Yu Aoki (although the name is Fukui Shang, the player name and corresponding data are from Hidaiyamagata) swings his arm and throws the baseball in his hand.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

Takuya Akiba, a Fukui business catcher, caught the baseball flying from home plate.

“bad shot.“

Because it was a bad ball, Qingdao hit Taro Fukuda with a bat, and he didn't swing the bat.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

In the face of the pitcher's throw, Taro Fukuda still did not swing the bat.

“good shot.“

Taro Fukuda shook the ball forward with both hands, then straightened the bat again, turned his head to look at pitcher Yu Aoki on the pitcher's mound, and waited for the ball to be pitched.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

"Ping!"

Yu Aoki's low-lying ball from the inside corner was hit by Taro Fukuda, a batter from the hitter, and bounced off the sideline of the left zone, before bounced off the sideline of the left zone and landed on the sand of the infield until it flew to the side of first base.

"Smack!"

The baseball flying from home plate was caught by the second baseman guarding the boundary between the inner and outer fields in a crouching position on the abdomen before it bounced into the right field after landing in the infield, but when he got up and waved his arm to first base, the batter Taro Fukuda was just a little bit faster and strode past the first base before the first baseman received the pass.

“safe.“ The first base judge raised his hands and signaled for the runner to get on base safely.

"In the first half of the first inning, Seido High School's attack, second baseman, second baseman, Tanaka-kun."

Yuki Tanaka stepped into the right-shot area during the announcement, waved his bat vigorously, and while turning his head to look at the pitcher's mound, he held the bat short in a posture ready to send his teammates to second base with a striking.

"Whew!"

"Bang!"

In the face of Yu Aoki's swing of his arm and throwing the ball in the middle of the outside corner, the hitter Yuki Tanaka still maintained a bent over posture and shrank down, and did not make any movements on the baseball thrown by the pitcher except to change his line of sight.

“good shot.“ Seeing this, the chief judge raised his head, clenched his right hand into a fist and raised it, signaling that the pitcher's ball was good.

'"Whoa! ”

"Boom!"

Fukui pitcher Yu Aoki threw a finger ball in the middle of the outside corner, and hitter Yuki Tanaka pushed his short bat into the middle of the outside corner, but the baseball from home plate fell from under the bat by a fraction of a centimeter and landed near the sideline in the left hitting area.

“Strike.“

The referee raises his hands upwards and crosses them together before extending them outwards to indicate that the ball is considered good because the hitter misses the ball.

"Whew!"

"Bang!".

“Ball.“

Because the third ball thrown by pitcher Yu Aoki with a swing of his arm was a mid-range bad ball that was out of the angle, hitter Yuki Tanaka naturally would not swing a baton at such a bad ball.