"In that case, wouldn't it be harder for the people from Hokkaido to come to help?" Their opponent, Koma Otomaki and Komaki, is a representative school of North and South Hokkaido.

"That's for sure!"

After breakfast, because there were no important arrangements in the morning, many people went back to their rooms to organize the items to be brought, and then took advantage of the last time to rest and recharge.

At 11:50 a.m., after lunch, everyone in Qingdao came to the lobby on the first floor with their backpacks.

"Let's go!" Superintendent Kataoka counted the number of people, and after confirming that everyone had arrived, he led everyone out of the hotel lobby and boarded the school bus to Hanshin Koshien Stadium.

……

As before, the school bus of Seido was parked in the parking lot of the stadium, and then the crowd of players walked into the stadium from the athletes' tunnel under the guidance of the fans, cheers and photos taken by reporters.

While the others stayed in the players' lounge, Superintendent Kataoka and Higashi Kiyokuni went to the studio with the stadium staff with the starting list and handed the list to the Asahi Shimbun staff.

Because it was a decisive playoff on the next day, there was no need for the captains of the two teams to guess the boxing first, and the chief judge said to them after getting the starting list submitted by the two captains: "Then Koma Otomakomai High School will continue to attack first, and Qingdao High School will attack later." ”

"Hopefully you will still have a good game to remember today."

"Good!" Seido's captain Higashi Kiyokuni and Koma's captain Atsushi Honma nodded to the chief judge together, and it was a game that would not be lost to yesterday.

The chief judge took the list of starters that had been recorded and handed them to the captains of both sides: "Okay, let's go and prepare first!" The tournament officially starts at 1:00 p.m. ”

"Yes!" The two of them took the starting list, nodded to the chief judge, turned away, and walked towards the break room where their team was.

After the players on both sides walked out of the tunnel of the players, they went to the rest area on the first and third bases side respectively under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of spectators in the stadium, and began to organize the items they brought over, because it was soon a defensive practice before the game.

"Komaomai Komaki please start guarding practice—" After the announcer's voice sounded from above the court, Komaomai Komaki players poured into the field from the rest area as air raid sirens sounded over the court.

"Buzz-buzz-buzz-"

Koma Otomaki scattered around and began pre-race practice amid the sound of air raid sirens.

Koma Otomaki and Komaki players, who had finished defensive practice, lined up with their supervisors outside the infield touchline on the first base side, took off their hats and bowed.

"Hello everyone, please advise!"

"Seido High School, please start the garrison practice—" After Komayama and Komaki turned away, the Seido players began to practice.

After the pre-match practice, the time quickly came to 00:58 in the afternoon, and the chief judge signaled to the two players that the match was about to begin.

The Qingdao people lined up outside the rest area and rushed to the field with the referees on the opposite side.

"Salute!"

Aodo and Komatomaki Otomaki who were lined up on either side of the home plate took off their hats and bowed along with the referees behind the home plate.

"Please advise—"

After that, only the nine players from Seido High School as the starters remained on the field, and they each went to their own positions to make the final preparations before the start of the competition.

"Now for the starting lineup of Seido High School," the announcer's voice rang out again from the court as the Seido players on the court made the final preparations before the start of the game.

"Pitcher, Yagami-kun."

"Catcher, Takigawa-kun."

"First baseman, Yuuki-kun."

"Second baseman, Tanaka-kun."

"Third baseman, To-kun."

"Shortstop, Fukuda-kun."

"Left fielder, Fujii-kun."

"Nakamidofielder, Murasuke-kun."

"Right fielder—"

……

“… Next, let's introduce the batting lineup of Komatomakomai High School——"

"First bat, Mitani-kun."

"Second stick, Miki-kun."

"The third stick, Nakazawa-kun."

……

"In the first half of the first inning, Komatomaki High School attacked, one bat, third baseman, Mitani-kun, back number 5." As the batter Tadao Mitani lowered his head to tidy up the ground, the announcer's announcement rang out from the top of the court.

Tadao Mitani, who was standing in the hitting area with his legs apart, swung his bat, turned his head to look at the pitcher, and spun around in front of him with his bat, then leaned on his right shoulder and clasped his hands.

"Buzz-buzz-buzz-"

At 01:01 in the afternoon, after the air defense sirens sounded, Tadao Mitani raised the bat that was originally leaning on his right shoulder and waited for the blow.

"Whew!"

Amid the sound of air raid sirens over the field, Yagami raised his leg and stepped forward, waving his left hand to throw the baseball in his heart at home plate.

The 88th National High School Wild Ball Tournament is a decisive victory, and the match between Koma Tomakomai High School VS Seido High School starts again!

The pitcher's knuckle drops forward at a speed of 128 km/h, then hits the player knee-high and grabs it on the edge of the zone with the left hand that the catcher is outstretching forward.

"Bang!"

“Strike.“

Yagami Yagami, who threw the ball well for the first time, raised his legs and stepped forward amid the sound of the air defense siren, waving his arms and throwing a knee-high bad ball to home plate.

"Whew!"

With his left forearm turned to the right, Chris opened his gloves to catch the wide ball that Yagami thrown.

"Bang!"

“Ball.“

After the ball count was good and bad, Yagami followed the code given to him by Chris, waved his arm and threw a high-speed ball to home plate, with a speed of 118km/h.

"Whew!"

The pitcher's pitcher throws a speedball that hangs high on the belt, drops from the front of the good zone at a height higher than a crouching catcher, and then hits the bat swung by the batter in the low corner of the outside corner.

"Ping!"

As Catcher Chris had expected, the batter hit a boccia ball in the direction of the shortstop, and was then grabbed by the shortstop Taro Fukuda, who was crouching and outstretched his hands, under the crotch.

"Smack!"

Taro Fukuda, who received the boccia ball from the hitter, stepped forward and waved his arm to pass the ball to first base, knocking out the batter Tadao Mitani, who had run past the left side of the pitcher's mound.

"In the first half of the first game, Koma Otoma Komaki High School's attack, two sticks, shortstop, Miki-kun, back number 6." After Tadao Mitani, who had been blocked by the guard, ran back to the rest area on the side of first base, the announcer's announcement sounded from above the field.

"Whew!"

After the ready hitter Yuya Miki struck a safe short pose, Yagami Yagami swung his arm towards the bad ball high in the outside corner of home plate.

"Bang!" Chris hurriedly got up from behind home plate and stretched out his left hand forward, raising his glove above home plate to catch the pitcher's baseball.

“Ball.“

Miki also took a turn in the preparation area outside the batting area, returned to his original position and stood up again, grabbed the bat with his right hand and waved, then turned his head to look at the pitcher and raised the bat with both hands in the air.