Chapter 403: Winning and Trying Again (21)
"I gave up my normal high school life early in the morning and focused on ...... for the wild ball"
"It's been a fight so far, of course I hope to win the final victory!!"
"Hope it gets something out of it! I hope to achieve a record that no one has achieved in many years!! ”
After hitter Naoki Okagawa was ready to strike, Seido ace Yagami reached forward with his right leg and threw a high outside corner four-seam fast ball towards home plate with a swing of his left hand.
"Bang!"
At a speed of 146km/h, the baseball flew over the edge line and was caught by the straight left hand of the Seido catcher Takikawa!
“Ball.“
"It's okay, the ball quality is good." Chris took the baseball out of his glove and raised his right hand to drop the ball to the pitcher.
Yagami reached out to catch the catcher's pass, stepped back to the pitcher's board and stood up, and when hitter Naoki Okagawa rested his bat on his right shoulder and was ready, he raised his leg and stepped forward to wave his arm to home plate to throw a high-four-seam fast ball with an inside corner belt.
"Ping!"
With a ball speed of 145 km/h, he passed the baseball high in the inside corner, and Naoki Okagawa hit the bottom with a swing from the bat, and flew out of touch to the right back.
After bending his knees, Naoki Okagawa got up and stood in the right hitting area, resting the bat on his right shoulder while turning his head to look at the pitcher, waiting for the pitcher's delivery.
"Whew!"
Yagami raised his leg and stepped forward, flicking his left hand to home plate to throw a high, out-of-the-way four-seam fast ball.
"Bang!"
At 145km/h, he slammed the baseball from the pitcher's mound to the baseball in front of him, and was grabbed by Chris's upward-raised glove.
“Ball...“
Although he fell behind in the number of balls, Seido ace Yagami did not waver, and after the hitter was ready, he followed the code given to him by Chris and threw a knee-high four-stitch fast ball to home plate.
"Ping!"
The baseball flew forward at a speed of 142 km/h and flew high to the right when the batter, Naoki Okagawa, swung it to hit the bottom.
"Smack!"
Second baseman Yuki Tanaka ran backwards to the lawn in the center-right field, looking up at the sky while raising his hands upwards to catch the baseball that was falling straight down.
"Out!"
After Yuki Zuo Tanaka took Komama Otomaki out of the game, the audience on the court suddenly let out an unusually fierce cheer, and the five batter Naoki Okagawa saw this, turned around and ran towards the rest area on the side of the first base.
"In the first half of the ninth inning, Komato's attack from Komaki High School, six bats, pitcher, Tanaka-kun, back number 1."
Tanaka, who had risen from the waiting area, leaned his bat on his left shoulder and walked over to the right area.
"One more out of the game."
On the pitcher's mound, Yagami Yagami, who has the second outs for the hitter, smiles and gestures to his teammates around him for two outs.
"In the first half of the ninth inning, the second is out, and there is no one on the base."
"Seido has forced last year's king, Koma Otomaki Komaki, who intends to achieve three consecutive hegemony, into a desperate situation, and won another number of outs-"
"If you get one more number of outs, you can reach the top and achieve the championship of national domination, which is the first team in Japan!!"
"One more, one more, one more ......" the crowd shouted rhythmically as they were about to witness a historic moment.
"Let's win, Qingdao!!"
"It's not over yet, don't give up!!" The Komatoma Komaki students who came to support were shouting desperately, in stark contrast to the Seido managers who were crying with joy.
"Capable ......"
"We're going to win ——!!"
"Absolutely!!"
"I will definitely be able to stand at the top of the country!!
Amid the voices of the inner and outer fielders, the six-batter Tanaka was ready to strike, and raised the bat that was originally resting on his right shoulder forward, waiting for the pitcher's pitch.
"Whew!"
Yagami raised his leg and stepped forward, waving his left hand to throw a two-seam fast ball towards home plate.
"Ping!"
A baseball that crosses the edge of the outside corner at a speed of 132 km/h, Tanaka, who is beaten behind the middle of the outside corner, hits the bottom of the bat, and flies out of touch to the right.
"Whew!"
Panting while lifting his leg forward and stepping forward, Yagami Yagami, who made a good first throw, followed the code given to him by Chris, and threw a finger fork ball to home plate.
"Smack!"
The baseball, which was falling at a speed of 128 km/h, was caught by the hand's open glove behind the outside corner, near the ground, after deceiving the hitter's swing.
“Strike.“
In January, because the previous senior was caught smoking by the school, the right to play in March was also dismissed by the school, and the school never reached the summer, summer and spring that had never been reached by the school, and the mood at that time was completely different from now!
This summer, under the alternating influence of gastroenteritis and fever, he and his teammates have come to this point step by step, and although he is unwilling to lose today's game, the huge pressure on his body and mind seems to have been emptied all of a sudden.
Unlike Shodai Tanaka, Yagami on the pitcher's board looked a little nervous, reaching forward with his right foot and throwing his arm into home plate with a high knee slide.
"Ping!"
At a speed of 126 km/h, the ball moves laterally from the front of the good ball area to the baseball in the middle of the low position, and the batter swings the baton to the bottom of the top of the baseball.
"Smack!"
In a collision with a bat, a baseball that lands behind home plate is marked as a throw-in by the presiding judge's hands raised above their heads.
With a smile on his face and a pair of hands on his hand, Tanaka waved it under him, then looked up at the pitcher and then turned the bat in front of him twice with his left hand before leaning it on his right shoulder, clasping his hands together and waiting for the pitcher to deliver.
"Hello!"
After taking two breaths of air, he raised his right foot and stepped on, and Yagami waved his left hand to shoot a high, out-of-the-box four-seam fast ball to home plate.
"Bang!"
With a ball speed of 150km/h, he went straight to the fast ball above the left hitting area and was caught by the glove raised upwards by the Seido catcher Takikawa.
“Ball.“
As the batter rested his bat on his right shoulder and turned his head to look at the pitcher, pitcher Yagami Yagami who was standing on the pitcher's board shook his head at the catcher's code until he was satisfied with it.
"Ping!"
The pitcher's inward fastball to home plate is a high bad ball that swings horizontally to the right at 132 km/h above the edge of the inside corner, and the batter swings to the bottom and flies backwards into bounds.
"Whew!"
After Naka Shodai Watana had already entangled with five balls, Yagami raised his leg and stepped forward and threw a belt-high slide at home plate with a wave of his left hand.
"Ping!"
The baseball, which was flying to the outside corner at a speed of 132 km/h, was hit by Tanaka, who was hit by a large swing to the top, and flew out of bounds to the left.
"Whew!"
In the face of the batter who continued to entangle with him, Yagami Yagami raised his right foot and stepped forward, swung his left hand in the direction of home plate, and threw a belt-high four-seam fast ball at him.
"Ping!"
The baseball, which flew at a speed of 147 km/h over the edge of the outer corner, was about to be caught by Takikawa's upwardly raised glove, and Tanaka hit the center of the ball with a big swing.