After the batter raised his bat high and reprepared himself to strike, Yagami threw a near-belt curveball toward home plate with a wave of his arm.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

The pitcher's baseball moves diagonally downward at 122 km/h from above the left hitting area, and the batter's bat sweeps just above as it flies inward behind the corner side of the hit area.

"Bang!" At the same time as the batter swung missed, the catcher Chris reached out with his glove and caught the baseball in front of the knee of his right leg.

“Strike.“ After clenching his fists upwards to announce the ball, the referee raised his right hand forward with two fingers and said the number of balls: "two."

With only one good number of shots to get outs, Yagami followed the code given to him by Chris, waving his arm and throwing a knee-high straight ball slightly outside of the home plate.

"Whew!"

The baseball he threw flew along the outside edge of the good-ball area at 144km/h before being grabbed by Chris's open glove.

"Bang!"

“Ball.“ The pitcher's straight ball was deemed bad by the referee because it was one ball away from the good ball zone.

"Whew!"

Although the last ball was badly thrown, Yagami still followed the code given to him by Chris, waving his arm to throw an out-of-the-way near-belt curveball to home plate.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

His baseball struck at 126km/h and slanted down from the top of the left hitting area to the right, before being caught by Chris's open glove behind the edge of the outside corner at the same time the hitter's swing missed.

"Bang!"

“Strike out.“ The fist went up, and the presiding judge instructed the hitter to be knocked out with a strikeout.

"In the first half of the fifth game, Koma Otoma Komaki High School's attack, nine sticks, catcher, Kobayashi-kun ......"

After the batter raised his bat and got ready, Yagami Yagami swung his arm and threw a slightly out-of-the-box speedball at home plate.

"Whew!"

"Huh!"

The baseball flying longitudinally from the left side of the hit-zone caught the open-mouth gloves of the catcher Chris when it flew at a speed of 118 km/h to a slightly out-of-the-box position behind the corner of the hit-hit zone after the hitter's swing missed.

"Bang!"

“Strike.“

After throwing the first ball, Yagami was ready to strike out the opponent in one go, and according to the catcher's code, he stepped forward with his leg raised and waved his arm to throw a knee-high slide ball to home plate.

"Whew!"

Move laterally from the top of the left strike area at a speed of 137 km/h behind the corner of the good ball area and catch it with the glove that the hand has spread forward.

"Bang!"

“Strike.“ With his right hand clenched into a fist and raised over his shoulder, the referee gave instructions on the number of balls: "two."

"Whew!"

"Ping!"

Yagami Yagami swung his arm and threw a near-knee slider at home plate, and the baseball, which was about to fall laterally at a speed of 133 km/h, was about to fall to the ground behind home plate when it was hit by a bat swung by the hitter Shu Kobayashi and bounced right in front of him.

"Smack!"

The baseball that fell to the right of the pitcher's mound rolled forward into the infield and was picked up by the shortstop Taro Fukuda, who had been waiting there for a long time, and next to him was the third baseman Kiyokuni Higashi, who ran from third base.

"Whew!"

Taro Fukuda stepped forward as he waved his arm to pass the ball to first base, knocking out runner Shu Kobayashi, who had run behind first baseman Tetsuya Yuuki.

“out.“ After the runner strides past first base, the first base judge, who is standing behind first base, clenches his right hand upwards and bends his elbow at a 90-degree angle.

"Three people are out, offense and defense are exchanged."

With the help of his teammates, Yagami Ye successfully solved Komato's lower line, allowing the opponent to end the first half of the fifth game with three up and three down.

When the Qingdao runners who returned from the field were gathered outside the rest area by Kataoka to discuss the problems they had just encountered in the race and the next tactical arrangements, Koma Tomakomai was in the rest area:

"Don't care, Kobayashi!" Tadao Mitani, who returned to the rest area, reached out and put his hand on Kobayashi Shu's shoulder, and began to help him change the trapper's equipment.

"We're going to go crazy on base in the next inning...... Pull the score away in one go! In order not to let the catcher care too much about being blocked by Qingdao because he didn't play well, which led to the end of the first half of the fifth game, Nakazawa Long next to him also took over and said.

"Break the deadlock on the scoreline, and leave it to us!"

Atsushi Honma pointed a thumbs up at himself as he said to Hidehide Kobayashi, who was changing the catcher's equipment.

"Cheer up, everyone—" Tanaka, who was the trump card, strode up to the crowd and stood still, "Seido will definitely not relax the firepower of the attack......"

"They're going to give it their all to get points – we're the defenders and the challengers! We must use all the strength we have gained through sweat in the past three years. ”

"It will be big," Kobayashi Xiu, who had already changed his equipment, stood up and said to the ace in front of him: "This game must be three up and three down." ”

"For the next game, the defense of this game must be sure!"

"Yes!!"

"Okay - let's go!" Atsushi Honma, as the captain, rushed to the field with everyone after a roar.

……

Almost a minute before the end of the first half of the fifth inning, Yagami Yagami, the nine-batter, walked out of the rest area.

He stood next to the partition in the lounge area, lowered his head and straightened his belt, reached for the batting cap next to him and put it on, picked up the bat he had placed in the frame, and walked towards the home plate in front of him.

As he walked and put on his batting gloves, when he arrived at the right waiting area, the announcer's voice sounded from the court on time: "The second half of the fifth inning, the attack of Seido High School, eight bats, right fielder, Ota-kun ......"

Hiroshi Ota stopped swinging his bat and stepped into the right-hand area. He lowered his head and swept the ground with his right foot, then stood in the right hitting area with his legs apart, waved the bat in his left hand, and while turning his head to look at the pitcher, he held the bat with both hands and rested it on his right shoulder, waiting for the pitch.

“play ball!“ The referee extends his right hand forward and directs the pitcher to pitch the ball.

"Whew!"

Tanaka raised his big hands above his head and threw a belted highball (10-4) at home plate at a speed of 118 km/h, following the catcher's code.

"Ping!"

A baseball that dips diagonally down from the top of the left hitting area to the mid-to-low position, and the bat, which is swung by the hitter, hits the bottom and flies high upward.

"Smack!"

The batter's baseball sped over the second baseman and then into the midfield area near the right field, where it was caught by the raised glove of the midfielder Atsushi Honma, who was running from the front.

“out.“

Atsushi Honma reached out and took the baseball out of his glove and tossed it to the second baseman in front of him, who passed it to the pitcher, and then turned and ran back into the field.

"In the second half of the fifth inning, the attack of Qingdao High School, nine bats, pitcher, Yagami Jun ......".

Yagami stood up in the batting area, tapped the ground with his bat in his left hand, and then waved his bat under him with both hands as he turned his head to look at the pitcher, then leaned it up to his shoulder.

“play ball!“ After the referee reached forward with his right hand and signaled for the game to begin, Yagami held the bat tightly in the grip of the bat with both hands, holding it high and waiting for the blow.