Chapter 354: Qingdao vs Koma Otomaki (17)
Yagami followed the catcher's signal and swung his arm to home plate to throw an out-of-the-way near-belted slider at 137km/h.
"Whew!"
The baseball that was speeding over the left hit area was caught by the open glove of the hand behind the side of the corner of the hit area because it fell sideways too widely, and before it could touch the hit zone.
"Bang!"
“Ball…“
Yagami took off his hat in apology, reached out to take the baseball that Chris had passed back, turned around and grabbed the magnesium powder bag on the ground and pinched it, and when he got up and re-established himself on home plate, the hitter in the right hitting area was holding the bat high and turned his head to look at him.
"Whew!"
Turning his head to look at second base, Yagami followed Chris's signal and stepped forward with his leg raised, waving his arm to shoot a near knee ball to home plate.
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
A baseball that was moving diagonally downward at a speed of 124 km/h (with a path of approximately 10-4) was struck by the batter Atsushi Honma when it moved from the top of the left hitting area to the right with less than half of the ball remaining on the lower edge of the outside corner.
"Ping!"
"Smack!" The baseball, which smashes left into the corner of the right-shot zone, bounces up the infield sideline, then smashes into the sand outside third base and rolls forward to the cowshed.
"Out of bounds!"
Yagami reached out to take the new baseball from the referee, bent down and grabbed the magnesium powder bag on the ground and pinched it, and then when he stood sideways on the pitcher's board, Atsushi Honma, the hitter in the batting area, took the bat in front of him with his left hand and turned around twice in front of him, then clenched his hands tightly, and while turning his head to look at himself, he raised the bat erect and waited for the strike.
Nodding his head at Chris By's code, Yagami turned his head to look at the runner who was standing at the base, then raised his foot and stepped forward, waving his arm to throw a two-seam fast ball that looked slightly out of the way to home plate.
"Whew!"
"Ping!"
The pitcher's baseball fell longitudinally at a speed of 139 km/h from a height parallel to the base of the hitter's thigh, and then when it moved forward to below the corner of the hit zone, the bat, swept off by the hitter, Atsushi Honma, hit the left side of the left zone, and then bounced off first base.
"Smack!"
Tetsuya Yuuki, the first baseman who was crouching behind first base, folded his hands forward and caught the flat ball flying from home plate on his abdomen.
“out“
Tetsuya Yuuki received the ball and ran forward to first base, and stepped on the base bag with his right foot to seal out runner Atsushi Honma, ending the first half of the six-inning.
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"Second half of the sixth inning, Seido High School's attack, second baseman, second baseman, Tanaka-kun......" Seventy seconds after the end of the first half of the sixth inning, the announcer's voice rang out over the court after defending the athlete Komakomai Otomaki finished warming up before the game.
Yuki Tanaka, who was standing in the batting area, waved his bat in his left hand, and while turning his head to look at the pitcher, he clenched the bat with both hands and waited for the blow.
"Whew!"
Following the catcher's signal, Tanaka stretched his leg forward and threw a belt-high straight ball into home plate with a wave of his right hand.
"Bang!"
The baseball, which flew past the edge of the hitball zone at a speed of 141 km/h, fell into the upwardly raised glove of catcher Hidehide Kobayashi without tricking the hitter into swinging the bat.
“Ball.“
Yuki Tanaka held the bat in both hands and waved it under him, raising the bat to get ready to strike while looking up at the pitcher.
"Whew!"
Tanaka raised his big hands above his head and waved his arms towards home plate to throw a belt-high inward fastball with a speed of 141km/h.
"Bang!"
A baseball that crosses the zone is caught by the open gloves of the captor behind the corner of the zone without the batter swinging the bat.
“Strike.“ The referee, who was half-crouching behind the catcher, raised his right hand into a fist and raised it over his shoulder, announcing the number of good balls: "one."
Swinging his bat and turning his head to look at the pitcher, Yuki Tanaka held the bat in front of his abdomen with both hands and raised it in front of his abdomen, waiting for the ball to be delivered.
"Whew!"
Tanaka raised his big hands above his head and swung his arms into home plate to throw a near-belt slider with a speed of 124km/h.
"Ping!"
The baseball that was displaced from the front of the left side of the field and the back of the low position in the inside corner was hit by the bat swung by Yuki Tanaka, and flew in the direction of the left field.
"Smack!"
After evading the jump interception of the third baseman, the baseball that was thrown off by the batter fell on the lawn of the left field, and was caught in a crouch position by the left fielder Junki Watanabe, who ran from left to right, in the forward bounce.
"Safe base."
Yuki Tanaka, who was running past first base, stopped running the ball on the left side and turned back to the base when he saw the left fielder passing the ball to this side.
"The bottom half of the sixth inning, the attack of Seido High School, three bats, left fielder, Fujii-kun ......"
Reach out and take off the handguard at the elbow and hand it to the team member who came to help next to you, then bend down and take off the leg guard on the ankle, and bring the team back to the rest area with the previous handguard. Yuki Tanaka walked to a position two or three steps away from the base pack and stood still, with his hands on his knees, and looked up at home plate.
On the right batting area, Takashi Fujii, a three-batter, looked at Tanaka Shodai standing on the pitcher's board and held a short bat, ready to strike.
"Whew!"
Tanaka lifted his leg forward and swung his arm into home plate to throw a belt-high straight ball that looked slightly out of the way at 139km/h.
"Ding!"
A baseball that flew from the pitcher's mound to the edge of the outside corner, and the bat, which was held horizontally by Takashi Fujii, flew out of the bat in the high position of the good ball zone.
"Boom!" A baseball that catapults onto the ground in the batting zone in a collision with a bat, bounces high forward, and then falls to the left of the pitcher's mound.
"Smack!" The baseball that rolled forward on the left side of the pitcher's mound was caught by the first baseman who ran over and caught it in a crouching position.
"Safe base."
Ryu Nakazawa also got up and touched with his left hand holding a baseball, and the runner Takashi Fujii, who ran from home plate. Then, when he felt that he had touched the runner, he turned and raised his hand to pass the ball to second base, but the referee who came to him raised his hands flat.
When the first baseman expressed doubts about the decision to make a safe base, the referee raised his hands and told him that when he touched the kill with a glove holding a baseball, he staggered by a fraction of a centimeter from the runner's left forearm.
"Pause!" After the referees stretched out their arms, Kobayashi Hide, Komatomaki's catcher, was the first to reach the pitcher's hill, followed by a group of infielders, and finally Shota Kikuchi, the herald overseen by Kayuki.
"In the bottom half of the sixth inning, Seido High School's attack, four bats, third baseman, Tojun ......" After Komaomachi's timeout of more than 30 seconds, the announcer's voice sounded punctually over the field.
Dong Qingguo, who was standing on the batting area, swung his bat, and while turning his head to look at the pitcher, he leaned the bat on his right shoulder from the bottom up, and clenched his hands tightly.
“play ball!“ After the referee stretched out his right hand forward to guide the pitcher to pitch, Dong Qingguo raised the bat that was originally leaning on his shoulder upwards, and then when the pitcher was about to start throwing, he changed the long bat to the short bat.
"Whew!"
General Tanaka turned his head to look at the runner on second base, raised his left foot and stepped forward, waving his right hand to throw a near-belt slide at home plate.