Chapter 118: The End of the Semi-Finals and the Beginning of the Finals
"call out!"
The baseball flew off the pitcher's mound like a white light flying towards home plate.
"Whoosh!"
The metal baseball danced by Ohno Yuta and the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound intersected in the sky above home plate, and then began to move away according to their predetermined trajectories.
"Bang!"
Yuta Ohno twisted his body and swung the bat past home plate, but unfortunately he could only hear the dull sound of the baseball rushing into the cover behind him.
“strike out.“
Iori Yagami successfully defeated Tokai Daikofu with a hit and struck out Yuta Ohno.
In the stands on the Qingdao side, Chris, who came to support him, raised the corners of his mouth slightly and tightened his hand on the microphone.
Soon, Iori Yagami struck out Tokai Daikofu's second-bat Sasamoto and then, with the cooperation of other players, caught Tokai Daikofu's catcher and third-bat cub Kendai, and got three outs in the first half of the first inning.
In the stands, the members of the Seido Baseball Club's second and third armies were all cheering for Iori Yagami's performance.
"Iori, what a great shot!"
"Three up and three down, it's so beautiful!"
"Senior Yashimi is really amazing."
Everyone in Qingdao ran back to the rest area. Supervisor Kataoka folded his arms on his chest and looked at Yagami Ye who returned to the rest area, and asked him: "Have you distributed your physical strength reasonably?"
"Well," Yagami nodded: "If possible, it would be no problem to vote the whole game."
Of course, Director Kataoka will definitely not let Yagami Yagami, who has been playing in the past few days, pitch the entire game. After all, the Spring Kanto Tournament is not an important game, so there is no need to consume too much of the pitcher's physical strength and energy; maybe
There will be pitchers who choose to burn themselves out because of Koshien, but there are certainly no pitchers who will choose to burn themselves out for a spring college baseball conference.
…
“strike out.“
"Three out, game over!"
The game, which lasted 2 hours and 22 minutes, ended when catcher Naoya Kuraza caught the last pitch thrown by pitcher Jinguji with a wave of his arm, and the game between Aomichi and Tokai Daikofu came to an end.
Qingdao won the Spring Kanto Conference semi-finals with a score of 4:3, causing the stands on Qingdao's side to become a sea of joy, and everyone was high-fiving each other in celebration.
On the field, players from Seido and Tokai Daikofu lined up in two teams to salute and shake hands with each other amidst the sound of air defense sirens.
"I hope we will have another chance to compete in the future." Dong Qingguo held the hand of Tokai Daikofu's four-stick Suzuki and said with a smile.
"In this case, I hope we can meet in Koshien." Suzuki said to Dong Qingguo with a smile.
"Haha, see you then." Dong Qingguo laughed and shook the hand of the next contestant.
"See you at Koshien." Mitsui said, holding Yagami's hand.
"See you at Koshien." Iori Yaya shook the other person's hand in return.
…
"Sakai, you are the starting pitcher tomorrow, catcher Miyuki, first baseman Higashi, second baseman Tanaka, third baseman Yuki, shortstop Fukuda, left field Kurama, center fielder Murasuke, right fielder Toshima; the above."
"Yes!" The person whose name was called by Director Kataoka replied loudly.
Later, Director Kataoka specifically said to Takuya Kimura and Koichiro Tanba who were standing next to him: "Tamba, Kimura, you two must remember to warm up after tomorrow's game starts, because I will let you play at any time, even if there are people on the field.
The situation is not bad.”
"Yes." Koichiro Tanba and Takuya Kimura nodded vigorously.
It seems that Director Kataoka’s arrangement is similar to that of other schools. For regional conferences with busy schedules such as the spring Kanto Conference, the participating teams would only be able to compete in the competition if they did not allow their ace and main pitcher to play from the beginning.
Choose to let them play after entering the semi-finals and finals; otherwise, teams like Aomichi, Yokohama and City Sandai that let their aces and main pitchers play from the beginning will not let them play again later in the game.
of.
Taking Yokohama as an example, if they successfully defeated Aomichi in the previous three rounds, then in the next semi-finals they will let the two or three substitute pitchers who cannot pitch often pitch the entire game; at this point,
Qingdao and the three major cities in the city have similar arrangements. They have decided to rest their ace (the main pitcher) in tomorrow's game and let the substitute pitcher pitch the entire game.
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May 18th, Utsunomiya Kiyohara Stadium.
Amid everyone's expectations, and with the air raid siren sounding on time at 12 noon, Seido pitcher Yu Sakai swung his arm and threw the baseball in his palm.
"call out!"
The finals of the Spring Kanto Conference have officially begun.
"Ah, the ball hit by Yuuki-kun, the third bat of Aido, was caught by the defender of the third team of the city. Three outs, the third inning is over."
"Both sides did not score in this round. The current score is 1:1. Qingdao and Shida San are not giving in to each other. Next up is the center line of Shida San. Does Shida San have a chance to score in this round?
?Let’s wait and see!”
As the finals of the Spring Kanto Conference must be broadcast live on a TV station, the commentator's passionate broadcast also made the audience in front of the TV excited with the competition on the field.
"Come on, senior!"
"We must fight it out, Long Guang!"
"Keep your sights on target and hit, Omae!"
In the stands, members of the city's three major, second and third armies were loudly cheering for the players who were preparing to hit the field.
As he walked into the batting box, Takahiro Mae Mae, one of the city's top three batsmen, swung his bat and waited for a hit. Aomichi's pitcher Yu Sakai threw an outside corner and an inside corner at the instruction of catcher Kazuya Miyuki.
, the third pitch is for the pitcher to throw the ball to the low inside corner area.
"Whoosh!"
"Ping!"
Ohmae Takahiro stared at the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound, took a step back to distance himself, swung the bat in his hand vigorously, and knocked the flying baseball directly away; the baseball bounced a few times after landing in the infield before being caught.
Aomichi shortstop Taro Fukuda, who ran over to catch the ball, successfully caught it with his glove, then turned around and took out the baseball from his glove and passed it to first base.
"Crack!"
Aomichi's first baseman Higashi Kiyokuni put one foot on the base and extended his other foot as far as possible. He opened his ball cover and waited for shortstop Taro Fukuda to pass the ball to him.
“out.“
When Ohmae Takahiro lunged forward, Higashi Kiyokuni happened to receive Taro Fukuda's pass first, and the first base umpire immediately called out the batter.
"Tanaka, here's a hit!".
"Come on Yangping!"
Tanaka Yohei, who was standing on the batting box, swung the bat first, then turned to look at the rest area of the third major city. After getting the signal from Director Tahara, he raised the bat and made a gesture of waiting for a hit. This chapter has been completed!