Chapter 355: Qingdao Road vs Koma Otomaki (Eighteen)
"Smack!"
The bat that moved laterally from the left side of the hit area at a speed of 126 km/h to the center and low behind it, and due to the interference of the hitter, it did not catch the glove that the hand opened forward, but fell downwards to the ground in contact with the fingertips of the glove.
"Bang!"
After hitting the ground, the baseball bounced upwards onto the catcher's abdomen, and after losing kinetic energy, it fell back to the ground, where the arrester Kobayashi Shu reached out and picked it up.
"Out of bounds!" After holding his hands up and his palms facing forward to signal a throw-in, the referee took a new baseball out of his bag and tossed it to the pitcher, then reached out to take the old baseball that the catcher handed him.
For Dong Kiyokuni, who is not good at hitting short hits, sending Tanaka at second base to third base with a sacrificial hit is indeed a test. After walking back to his original position, he swung the bat with one hand, turned his head to look at the pitcher, and shook the bat forward with both hands before raising it high.
“play ball!“
When the pitcher and catcher were about to start pitching, Dong Qingguo changed the long stick to the short stick again.
"Whew!"
Tanaka turned his head to look behind him, raised his leg and stepped forward, waving his arm to throw an out-of-the-box near-belt slider at home plate.
"Bang!"
The baseball moves forward from the top of the left strike area at a speed of 128 km/h to a slightly outward position behind the corner of the hit zone, and is caught by the hand with a forward open glove while avoiding the bat.
“Strike.“ With his palm facing up and his right hand raised above his head, the presiding judge announced the number of balls: "two."
After the hitter was ready to strike again, Tanaka, who was glancing behind him, raised his left foot, stepped forward, and waved his right hand to throw a knee-high cross ball at home plate.
"Whew!"
The baseball, which grazed the edge of the outer corner in a forward descent at a speed of 129km/h, was blocked by the bat pushed by the batter Dong Kiyokook just before it was about to fall into the catcher's glove.
"Ding!"
The baseball flew high in the collision with the bat, and Dong Qingguo immediately let go of the bat in his hand and rushed to the first base in the push with the catcher.
In the push with the runner, Hidehide Kobayashi, who ran to the front of home plate, opened his gloves to grab the baseball that bounced off the ground, and swung his arm to pass the ball to first base.
“out.“
The first baseman who was crouching on the first base bag also caught the baseball passed by the catcher in the abdomen, and blocked Dong Qingguo, who had just run past the left side of the pitcher's mound, outside the base.
"In the second half of the sixth inning, Seido High School's attack, five bats, kakamidfielder, Murasuke-kun......" After a short 20-second timeout, Daiki Muraksuke, who was standing outside the batting area and waiting, walked into the right hitting area with his bat and stood after the announcer's voice sounded over the court.
Carrying the bat in one hand and turning it in front of him several times, turning his head to look at the pitcher, he grasped the bat with both hands in the grip position, and raised it upright for the strike.
"Whew!"
Tanaka stretched his leg forward and threw a belted ball into home plate with a speed of 121 km/h.
"Ping!"
The baseball, which was moving diagonally downward from the outside of the hit area, was hit by the bat, which was swung by the beater, Daiki Murasuke, and smashed vertically downwards to the ground as it moved downwards to the rear of the center-low position.
"Smack!"
After hitting the ground, the baseball bounced forward to the right side of the referee, and rolled out of bounds as it fell back to the ground.
"Out of bounds!" With your palms facing forward, raise your hands above your head; After the referee made his decision, Kobayashi reached out and picked up the baseball that had rolled to the back of the hitting area, rubbed it for a moment, and then raised his hand to throw it back to the pitcher.
Murasuke Taiki, who had regained his footing in the batting area, turned his head to look at the pitcher, and while carrying the bat in front of him, he circled in front of him, and after five consecutive turns, he put his right hand up, grasped the bat in the grip position, and held it high in the air to wait for the strike.
"Whew!"
Tanaka stepped forward with a big leg lift and waved his arm to home plate to throw a low diagonal straight ball with a speed of 143km/h.
"Bang!"
The pitcher throws a baseball that flies forward over home plate against the strike zone, and then catches the baseball scurrying from the outside to the inside in front of the hitter's right calf (before swinging). At the same time, the hitter Daiki Murasuke immediately stopped and was about to continue swinging the bat forward, and retracted it backwards.
After the hitter staggered back two steps due to inertia before regaining his footing, catcher Hidehide Kobayashi raised his right index finger upwards and asked the chief judge if it was a good ball.
When questioned, the chief judge walked from behind the catcher to the left-hand zone and reached for first base.
“safe.“ When questioned, the first baseman standing next to the first baseman raised his hands flat, signaling that the batter was not swinging the bat.
After the batter raised his bat high and was ready to strike again, Tanaka raised his foot and stepped forward and threw his arm to home plate to throw a near-belt slide.
"Whew!"
"Huh!"
At the same time that the batter Daiki Murasuke missed his swing, catcher Shu Kobayashi opened his gloves forward and caught the baseball that had been moved laterally from the front of the left batting area to the right side of the hitter's right knee (the hitter who was in the position before the swing).
"Bang!"
“Strike.“ The right hand is raised over the shoulder in a fist, and the presiding judge declares that the beater's swing has failed.
Because he swung the bat too hard, he turned half a position to the left, and Murasuke Taiki, facing home plate, got up and re-established himself in the right hitting area, turning his head to look at the pitcher, and swinging the bat in front of him, while the referee stretched out his right hand forward to guide the pitcher to pitch, and held the bat high and waited for the strike.
"Whew!"
General Tanaka nodded at the catcher's code, raised his left foot and stepped forward, waving his arm to shoot a belt-high inward fastball to home plate.
"Ping!"
A baseball moving horizontally to the right at a speed of 141 km/h was hit by a batter swinging over the corner of the zone and flew out of bounds to the right.
The referee turned and glanced to the right, reached out and took the baseball out of the bag and handed it to the catcher, who then passed it to the pitcher.
As the catcher rubbed the new baseball and passed it to the pitcher, Murasuke grabbed the bat with his left hand and leaned it on his right shoulder, straightened his belt with his right hand, and raised the bat forward while turning his head to look at the pitcher.
When the pitcher took the pass and stood sideways on the pitcher's board, Daiki Murasuke threw the bat with his hands hanging down under him, then raised the bat upwards and waited for the ball to be delivered.
"Whew!"
Tanaka stepped forward with his leg raised and swung his arm to shoot a high, inward fastball that forced the hitter in the right-hand zone to take two steps back to avoid the head-scurrying baseball.
"Bang!" Catcher Hidehide Kobayashi straightens his left hand upwards and catches a baseball that flies at 145km/h to the back of the right shot area.
“Ball…“
Tanaka took the baseball passed to him by the catcher with his wide open gloves, reached out and took off his cap to apologize, and stared at home plate while the pitcher stood on the board, waiting for the catcher to give him a code.
"Whew!"
According to the code, Tanaka continued to throw a belt-high inward fastball to home plate at a speed of 143km/h.
"Ping!"
When a baseball that moves horizontally to the right from the front of the good ball area swims inward to the back of the high inside corner, it is struck by the bat swung forward by the hitter and flies high to the right.