Chapter 343: Qingdao vs Koma Otomaki (6)
Tetsuya Yuuki grabbed the bat with both hands and shook it, then re-established himself in the right hitting area, raised the bat and turned his head to look at the pitcher.
"Whew!"
According to the code given by Kobayashi Senpai, Shota Kikuchi flicked his arm and threw the ball straight from the knee on the edge of the good zone towards home plate.
"Bang!"
When the hitter thought it was a bad ball that was out of the way, and did not swing the bat, Kobayashi Shu reached forward with his left hand and caught the baseball that flew over the good ball area at a speed of 136km/h.
“Strike out.“ The referee clenched his fist upwards and signaled that the hitter was knocked out by the pitcher.
"In the second half of the second inning, the attack of Qingdao High School, seven sticks, catcher, Takikawa-kun, back number 2."
After the hitter was seated in the right zone and turned his head to look at himself ready to strike, Shota Kikuchi raised his left leg forward, waved his arm, and threw a palm ball into home plate.
"Whew!"
The baseball, which had begun to plummet in front of the hit zone, flew past Chris's side at 107 km/h, smashed into the ground behind home plate, and then grabbed the ball cover reached by the hand as it bounced upward.
"Bang!"
“Ball.“
Chris held the bat with one hand and waved it at his side, then clasped his hands, turned his head to look at the pitcher on the pitcher's mound, flung the bat forward, and then raised it high to wait for the blow.
"Whew!"
Following the code given by the catcher, Shota Kikuchi waved his arm and continued to throw the palm ball into the home plate.
"Huh?"
Chris, who raised his left foot slightly and was about to swing the bat, looked at the baseball that had fallen sharply in front of him, and felt that this ball should still be a bad ball, and let it disappear in front of him.
"Bang!"
The baseball, which was plummeting longitudinally at a speed of 110 km/h, grazed the edge of the low inside corner and was firmly grasped by the jacket reached by the arrester Hideki Kobayashi.
“Strike.“ The chief judge clenched his fists upward, with his upper arm at shoulder height, and his lower arm and upper arm bent at a 90-degree angle.
Chris took a step back, stood on the outside of the hitting area, swept the ground with his right foot before standing in his original position, waved the bat in front of him with both hands, and turned his head to look at Shota Kikuchi, who was standing on the pitcher's mound, waiting for the strike.
"Whew!" According to the catcher's code, the pitcher, as always, threw a palm ball into the home plate.
"Ping!"
At a speed of 109 km/h, it flew to the baseball in front of his chest above the corner of the good ball area, and was hit by the bat that Chris swung past and flew backwards and forward.
"Smack!"
The baseball, which passed through the middle, flew some distance into the outfield before it began to lose altitude and finally landed on the lawn in the middle of the field, next to Atsushi Honma, a midfielder running from left to right.
"Safe base."
Looking up at the outfielder, Chris stopped and continued to run the base, and when the fielder raised his right hand to pass to first base, he turned around and walked quickly to the side of the first base bag, bent down and took off the leg guard on his ankle, and handed it to Tamba (the baserunner) who came to help next to him.
"In the second half of the second inning, the attack of Seido High School, eight sticks, right fielder, Ota-kun, back number 12."
Hiroshi Ota, the seven-pronger, stood on the right shot area with his legs in front and back, waved the bat with his left hand, and then clenched his hands tightly, leaning the bat on his right shoulder while turning his head to look at the pitcher, waiting for the ball to be delivered.
"Whew!"
When the catcher asked for an outside palm shot, pitcher Shota Kikuchi may have been influenced by the fact that the previous batter could easily hit his own tiebreaker and threw a palm ball high inside to home plate.
"Bang!"
As soon as the pitcher's baseball fell down to the batter's chest at a speed of 116 km/h, it was grabbed by Kobayashi's uplifted ball sleeve.
“Ball.“
Hiroshi Ota turned his head to look at the rest area behind him, grabbed the bat with his left hand and shook it under him, leaned it on his right shoulder, held the bat leaning on his shoulder with both hands and bowed his back, turned his head to look at Shota Kikuchi, waiting to pitch the ball.
"Whew!"
Influenced by the runner on the base, after throwing the ball to first base, Shota Kikuchi waved his right hand and threw the second ball to home plate, which was a slightly out-of-the-way palm ball.
"Bang!"
When the batter is not swinging, the pitcher's baseball drops vertically from the left side of the hit zone to the rear at a speed of 108 km/h, and then grabs the cap's sleeve when it is about to fall to the ground.
“Ball…“
Hiroshi Ota waved the bat with his left hand and continued to lean it on his right shoulder, bent his knees behind him, turned his head to look at the pitcher, and held the bat with both hands, waiting for the pitch to be delivered.
"Whew!"
Following the catcher's new code, Shota Kikuchi threw a belt-high inward fastball toward home plate.
"Bang!"
The pitcher's baseball travels across the entire hitting zone at a speed of 132 km/h, and then drops laterally to the lower part of the batter's belt, where it is firmly caught by the captor's sleeve.
“Strike.“
After finally throwing a good ball, Shota Kikuchi opened the ball sleeve to take the baseball passed back to him by the catcher, wiped the sweat from his face with his sleeve, and when he stepped forward with his leg raised, ready to continue to pitch according to the catcher's code, because of the stolen base of the runner Chris, he could only switch to a quick pitch and throw a straight ball near the knee to home plate.
"Whew!"
"Bang!"
At the same time as the batter stopped swinging the bat, Kobayashi Shu reached forward to catch the baseball flying at 134km/h, and then quickly got up, flicked his right hand, and passed the ball to second base.
"Smack!"
Yuya Miki, a shortstop who ran to second base, caught the baseball from the catcher on the right side of his body, and immediately extended the baseball cover to the left.
“out.“
Because the shortstop's ball cover was the first to touch the runner's right leg knee that was stretched out due to the base, and when Chris the runner who stole the base base got up to stand on the base bag of second base, the second base judge standing next to him bent his right elbow and clenched his fist upwards to announce that he had been touched by the guard.
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"In the first half of the third inning, the attack of Koma Otomaki High School, Nine Sticks, Catcher, Kobayashi-kun, back number 2."
Grabbing the bat with both hands and waving it under him, Kobayashi Shu, who was standing on the right hitting area, shook his shoulders, twisted his waist, raised the bat in his hand high, and turned his head to look at Yagami on the pitcher's mound.
“play ball!“
After receiving the referee's tee shot, Yagami raised his right foot, stepped forward, and swung his left hand to throw a high slide toward home plate.
"Whew!"
The pitcher's baseball flew in front of the left side of the zone, and then flew over the zone at a speed of 135 km/h, because the faster speed caused the baseball not to have a downward trend, but also a slight tendency to rise, and finally caught by the catcher Chris's upward raised ball cover in front of the hitter's chest.
“Ball.“
After raising his right hand with the palm facing outward, Kobayashi began to lower his head to level the ground, and only when he was satisfied did he stand up on the batting area, he waved the bat in his left hand, turned his head to look at the pitcher in front of him, raised the bat, and clenched his hands.
Following the code given to him by Crispie, Yagami flicked his left hand and threw a slightly out-of-the-box speedball at home plate.
"Whoa!".
The pitcher's baseball fell from the left sideline to the right at 114 km/h, and then sliced across the good ball area behind the outside corner without the hitter swinging the bat, and finally caught by the open cover of the catcher Chris behind the middle and low post area.
“Strike.“ The presiding judge made a loud announcement with his fists upward, his upper arms at shoulder height, and his lower arms bent at a 90-degree angle to his upper arms.