Chapter 249: Three Rounds of War (6)
"Whew!"
"Bang!"
“bad shot.“
Yu Aoki threw a straight ball from a low position with a speed of 130 km/h, but it was a bad ball from the outside corner that deviated slightly from the good zone.
When the catcher raised his hand to pass the baseball he had just received back to the pitcher, hitter Tetsuya Yuuki glanced up at the rest area on the side of first base, then nodded his head, waved the bat with his left hand, and then raised the bat upright again, turning his head to look in the direction of the pitcher's mound.
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
"Bang!"
In the face of Yu Aoki's swing of the curveball that fell diagonally from the high position of the non-good area to the middle of the outside corner, Tetsuya Yuki swung the bat from the high position area of the outside corner, and directly let his swing miss.
“Strike.“
【116km/h】
After the referee raised his right hand to make a decision, Tetsuya Yuki glanced up at the ball speed displayed on the scoring screen, a very ordinary curveball, but because Yu Aoki is a side pitcher, it becomes difficult to hit.
"Whew!"
Yu Aoki throws a slider from the non-good zone to the outside corner with a speed of 124 km/h.
"Huh!"
"Bang!"
Tetsuya Yuuki faced such a very ordinary slider, but once again swung the bat, and the catcher Takuya Akiba opened his case to catch the baseball flying under the bat.
“Strike.“
Tetsuya Yuuki, who had just stepped his right foot over the home plate because he had just used too much force, after he pulled his right foot back with a hard push, Takuya Akiba behind him knelt on his legs and raised his hand to throw the baseball he had just received back to the pitcher.
"Whew!"
Yu Aoki swung his arm toward home plate and threw a slider from the non-good zone to the low outside corner at a speed of 122 km/h.
"Huh!"
Tetsuya Yuuki aimed at the low area of the outside corner to swing the bat, but he still missed.
"Bang!"
Taku Akiba also moved the catcher case outward out of the good ball zone and grabbed the baseball with an unsatisfactory lateral change above the sideline of the left hitting area.
“Strike out.“
After the presiding judge raised his right hand to make a ruling, and Takuya Akiba, the catcher next to him, got up and waved the baseball he had just received to third base, Tetsuya Yuuki, who was the hitter, could only carry the bat in his right hand and trot all the way from home plate to the rest area on the side of first base.
It's really hard for people to adapt to the pitcher's pitch quickly, such as the last ball, because he can't judge that it's a good ball? Or is it a bad ball? will choose to swing the bat to strike.
"In the first half of the second game, the attack of Qingdao High School, Seven Sticks, Catcher, Takigawa-kun."
As Aodo hitter Chris raised his bat high and turned his head to look at the pitcher, pitcher Yu Aoki threw a cart ball that moved laterally from the center of the outside corner to the center of the inside corner.
"Whew!"
"Bang!"
Chris didn't have the slightest intention of swinging a bat, except for staring at the baseball flying from home plate, allowing Catcher Takuya Akiba to open his sleeve to catch the baseball flying at 133 km/h.
“good shot.“
After the referee raised his right hand to make the decision, Takuya Akiba got down on his knees and took the baseball out of the ball sleeve and threw it back to pitcher Yu Aoki.
Chris grabbed the bat with one hand and swung it, then shook the bat short with both hands and flung it forward vigorously, turning his head to look at the pitcher's mound as he raised the bat up again and waited for the pitch to be pitched.
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
Yu Aoki threw a straight ball with a low inside corner and a speed of 131/h, and the bat that Chris swung vigorously swept just under the flying baseball, even though the distance between the two sides was very close, it could not be described as a fraction of a centimeter, but there was still no contact.
"Bang!"
Taku Akiba also placed the catcher sleeve behind the hitter's right shoulder, and managed to get a firm grip on the baseball that was speeding from the pitcher's mound.
“Strike.“
Chris turned and took a few steps forward, and the catcher behind him, Takuya Akiba, got down on one foot and took the baseball out of his sleeve and passed it back to the pitcher.
After Yu Aoki opened his case to receive the baseball passed to him by the catcher, he took out the baseball from the cover with his right hand, looked at the code that Takuya Akiba was giving him from the back of the home plate, and nodded slightly.
"Whew!"
Yu Aoki throws a curveball that falls diagonally down from the mid-zone (the hitter's belly) to the low inside corner from the mid-zone of the non-good zone (the hitter's belly).
"Bang!"
Unfortunately, the diagonal change of the ball was not satisfactory, and Takuya Akiba had to move his case close to the knee of the player's left leg to catch the 114km/h curveball in it.
Chris straightened his left leg and took a step back as the pitcher's baseball flew to his left knee, looking down at the catcher as he caught the pitcher's low-lying bad ball into the sleeve.
“bad shot.“
He took a few steps back, then walked back to his original position and stood up again, swinging his bat in his left hand, then holding it up upright again, turning his head to look in the direction of the pitcher's mound.
"Whew!"
Yu Aoki swung his arm again and threw a curveball that was almost no different from the previous ball, and even the ball speed was 114km/h like the previous ball.
"Bang!"
Chris hurriedly stopped swinging his bat and allowed the catcher's downward-open sleeve to grab the low-lying ball that flew from the pitcher's mound.
It was really dangerous...... I almost fooled them!
Chris was holding the bat in his left hand, and as he stepped back, he thought that he had almost been tricked into swinging the bat by the opponent's throw.
After Yu Aoki opened the ball cover in his left hand to catch the baseball that Takuya Akiba passed back to him, he took the baseball out of the ball cover with his right hand and carried it behind him, tilting his upper body forward to look at home plate, waiting for the catcher to give him a code.
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
"Ping!"
Chris aimed at the baseball thrown by Yu Aoki with his arm swing and sent his straight ball in the middle of the high post with a speed of 130km/h.
"Out of bounds!"
After the batter swung the baton off the baseball and flew across the sideline on third base and landed on the off-field lawn, the referee pulled out a new baseball from his waist bag and reached out to Yu Aoki on the pitcher's mound.
After opening his sleeve to receive the new baseball passed to him by the officiator, Yu Aoki took off his cap and wiped the sweat from his forehead and cheeks with his sleeve, then reached out and pinched the magnesium powder bag next to him before finally raising his head and chest and returning his attention to home plate.
"Whew!"
Yu Aoki swung his arm toward home plate and threw a slider from the non-good zone to the high inside corner at a speed of 124 km/h.
"Bang!"
Aodo hitter Chris did not seem to pass through the good ball area because the lateral trajectory of the slider thrown by the pitcher did not seem to pass through the good ball area, which directly caused him to not do anything related to swinging the bat, except for moving his gaze, so that the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound flew over the high area of the inside corner and was caught by the open ball sleeve of Takuya Akiba.
“Strike out.“
After the officiating judge raised his right hand to make the decision, Chris reached down the bat that he had lifted high, turned and trotted out of the batting area back to the rest area on the first base.