After lowering his head and tidying up the ground, Osamu Washiya turned his head to look at the pitcher, and spun twice in front of him with his right hand with his bat, clasping his hands and resting it on his shoulder.

“play ball!“

After the chief judge reached out and guided the pitcher to start pitching, Osamu Washitani also raised the bat on his left shoulder high in the air, waiting for the blow.

"Whew!"

Shaking his head and re-identifying the code, he raised his leg and stepped forward, and Yagami waved his arm to home plate to throw a high inward fast ball (four-seam fast ball) with a speed of 138km/h.

"Bang!"

The baseball flying over the hit area was grabbed in front of Chris with a raised glove in front of him above the back of the right hit area without the hitter swinging the bat.

“Ball.“

After throwing a bad ball at the first ball, Yagami followed the code given to him by Chris, raised his leg and stepped forward, flicking his left hand to throw the baseball in his palm towards home plate.

"Whew!"

The curveball is slung high on the belt, moving diagonally down from the hitter's right shoulder at a speed of 120 km/h, then avoiding the batter sweeping against the bottom of the baseball behind the high position in the outside corner, and then catching it firmly behind the side of the hit area with the glove lifted up by the captor.

"Bang!"

“Strike.“

After the ball count was good and bad, Yagami raised his leg and stepped forward, flicked his left hand and threw a knuckle ball at home plate at a speed of 122km/h.

"Whew!"

A baseball that falls vertically from the front of the batter's belt, then dodges the batter sweeping from the side in the corner of the strike zone in front of the knee of the left foot.

"Huh!"

At the same time as the batter swung missed, the baseball that fell out of the good ball area was caught by the glove that the hand was about to hit the ground.

"Bang!"

“Strike.“

After receiving the baseball from Chris, Yagami tucked the pitcher's gloves under his armpits and moved his hands before standing on the pitcher's board, looking at home plate and waiting for the code.

"Whew!"

As the batter raised his bat and turned his head to look at him, Yagami nodded to Chrisby's code, raised his right foot and stepped forward, waving his left hand to shoot a near mid-belt straight ball towards home plate.

"Huh!"

The pitcher's baseball sped at 143 km/h toward the catcher's glove in front of the batter's abdomen, and then flew in front of the batter's chest, avoiding the batter sweeping underneath.

"Bang!"

Chris moves his glove outward, catching a baseball flying over the hitter as the batter swings miss, striking the hitter a strikeout.

“Strike out.“ Raised his right hand over his shoulder with a fist, the presiding judge waved his right hand vigorously to signal that the batter was knocked out by the pitcher.

With a bat in his right hand, Osamu Washiya turned around and ran back to the rest area, while the announcer's voice resounded above the court.

"The first half of the thirteenth inning, Komato's attack on Komaki High School, six bats, pitcher, Tanaka-kun ......"

Standing on the batting area with his legs in front of him, Tanaka holds the bat in front of him with his big hands in front of him, and turns his head to look at the pitcher on the pitcher's mound waiting for the blow.

"Whew!"

Nodding, Yagami followed the code given by Chris, raised his legs and stepped, flicked his arms and threw a two-stitch fast ball to home plate.

"Bang!"

The 136 km/h two-seam fast ball falls longitudinally at the height parallel to the base of the hitter's thigh when approaching the hitter's good ball area, and then flies over the good ball area without the hitter swinging the bat, and catches it with the glove extended forward by the captor behind the low position in the outside corner.

“Strike.“

When the batter raised his bat and turned his head to look at him, Yagami Ye turned his head to look at the runner at second base, stepped forward with his leg, and waved his arm to throw a near-knee slider at home plate.

"Hello!"

At 130 km/h, it flew over the left batting area and headed straight for the catcher's knee, behind the left edge of home plate, where the catcher's right foot was grabbed by his outstretched left hand.

"Bang!"

“Ball.“

Spreading his gloves to catch the baseball that Chris threw to him, he turned and walked back, Yagami reached out and grabbed the powder bag on the ground and pinched it, raised his hand to blow off the excess powder from his fingertips, and got up to stand up on the pitcher board again.

"Whew!"

Nodding to the code that Chris came out, Yagami raised his leg and stepped forward, waving his left hand to shoot a straight ball into the inside corner of home plate.

"Ping!"

The high straight ball went from the pitcher's mound to the front of the hitter's chest at a speed of 144 km/h, and then Tanaka, the batter, grazed the top of the ball with a large sweep of the bat and bounced it downward.

"Bang!" Chris spread the glove that had been placed next to the knee of the hitter's right leg and moved it quickly, grabbed the baseball that had bounced down in the collision with the bat next to the belt, and then clenched his left hand and waited for the ball

“out.“

The presiding judge's right hand rubbed against his left hand, and then his right hand clenched upwards and instructed the beater to wipe the stick and be arrested.

Turning his head and glancing at the Qingdao catcher, he was arrested for wiping the stick, and Tanaka's big smile was full of helplessness, he really didn't expect that the Qingdao catcher, as a second-year student, could catch such a difficult ball.

"Wipe the stick and arrest! Three people are out, and the offense and defense are exchanged. ”

"Komakomai still couldn't score, and Takikawa managed to stop Komakomai from scoring again with a great performance when there were people on base."

"As the biggest dark horse of this tournament, Seido not only has the strongest pitcher of the next generation, but even the catcher Takikawa also has the best garrison ability in the country."

"Well done!" When Chris and Yagami left the field and returned to the rest area, his teammates around him shouted at him.

"Awesome!" After everyone had left the field and returned, when Chris asked everyone except Yagami to form a circle on the periphery of the rest area, Dong Kiyokoku, as the captain, rarely gave him a thumbs up for his performance just now.

"Mikawa (excellent)!" Tetsuya Yuuki, Koichiro Tanba, Yagami and other students of the same level applauded him and gave him applause.

……

After the Qingdao runner left the field and returned to the rest area, Tanaka did not leave the field, and he changed his equipment with the help of his teammates at home base.

After tidying up his clothes and changing his equipment, Tanaka wiped the sweat off his face with a towel, then took his pitcher's gloves and trotted over to the pitcher's mound.

After a brief conversation with the catcher, Shodai Tanaka, who had nearly 10 pitches, reached out and pinched the powder bag on the ground, and while turning towards home plate, he stood on the pitcher's board and began to warm up with the catcher.

"In the second half of the thirteenth inning, the Qingdao High School attacked, nine bats, pitchers, Yagami Jun ......" Nearly two minutes after the end of the first half of the game, the announcer's announcement resounded over the court.

Yagami Yagami, who was standing in the batting area with his legs apart, grabbed the bat with both hands and waved, and leaned his bat over his shoulders while looking up at the pitcher.

“play ball!“

After the referee reached out for the pitcher to start pitching, Yagami raised the bat on his right shoulder upwards and waited for the blow.

"Whew!"

With his hands raised above his head, Tanaka threw a straight ball high inside corner into home plate with a big swing arm.

"Ding!".

Faced with a baseball rushing from the pitcher's mound at a speed of 141 km/h, Yagami retracted the bat and stepped back, hitting the bottom of the baseball in front of him and sending it backwards.

"Out of bounds!" The presiding judge, palms facing forward and hands raised above his head, instructed the ball to be a throw-in.