Facing the baseball ball thrown by Aido pitcher Yu Sakai on the pitcher's mound, Tanaka Yohei did not hesitate at all and swung the metal bat in his hand vigorously. Unfortunately, he failed to hit the ball well and hit the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound three times.
Outside the sidelines of the base.
After swinging the bat and regaining his stance, Tanaka Yohei once again assumed a posture waiting for a hit.
The baseball thrown by Yu Sakai again with his arm flew from the pitcher's mound at a very tricky angle, almost hitting the batter's abdomen. However, Yohei Tanaka did not even move and continued to hold the bat high and wait for the next shot.
of blow.
"call out!"
"Ping!"
When the baseball thrown by Yu Sakai flew from the pitcher's mound for the third time, Tanaka Yohei swung the bat in his hand vigorously. The metal bat he swung violently collided with the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound, and then fell rapidly.
Fly out.
“safe.“
After hitting the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound, Tanaka Yohei immediately dropped the bat and started running, and then successfully reached base.
Itoku Tanaka, one of the city's top five baseball players, stood outside the batting area and saluted the referee, then walked into the batting area with his bat, then raised his bat and shouted softly in the direction of the pitcher's mound, waiting.
The action of striking.
After being hit by a first-year student, Yohei Tanaka, Yu Sakai took a few deep breaths, calmed down his mood, firmly grasped the baseball, and followed the signal given to him by the catcher Miyuki to throw the baseball in his palm.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Ping!"
Ittoku Tanaka swung the metal bat hard and swept the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound to the first base sideline.
Sakai Yu frowned. He was still very confident in the shot he just made, but it was still knocked out by the batter...
Miyuki Kazuo, who was squatting behind home plate, also turned to look at Aomichi's dugout. Director Kataoka gave him a signal with a serious expression. After receiving instructions from Director Kataoka, he moved a small step toward the inside corner, and then
He gave a new signal to Senior Sakai on the pitcher's mound, opened his sleeve and waited for Senior's pitch.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Bang!"
“strike.“
Tanaka swung the bat a few times, stood up again on the batter's box, stared closely at Yu Sakai on the pitcher's mound, raised the bat, and waited for a hit.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
“ball.“
The current number of balls was two strikes and one ball. Miyuki also gave a signal to Sakai-senpai and tried to get a ball on the edge of the strike zone to see if he could deceive the batter into swinging the bat.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
“ball.“
It seemed that Tanaka Ittoku didn't know how to swing the bat at a bad ball. After Mikoichi caught the baseball that flew from the pitcher's mound, he looked at the three Ichigo five baseball bats who were standing motionless, got up and returned the baseball.
Pass it to Sakai-senpai.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Ping!"
"Out of bounds!"
"call out!"
"Bang!"
“ball.“
"call out!"
"Ping!"
"Out of bounds!"
The current number of balls is already two good balls and three bad balls. The city's top three and five bats will never take action against bad balls, and the slightly easier balls will be knocked out by them. In this case, it will be difficult to get the last one.
A good number of strikes.
Miyukiichi also gave a signal to the surrounding defensive players, asking them to step back to expand the defensive range, and then asked Sakai-senpai for an inside corner ball.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Ping!"
"Out of bounds!"
The baseball flying from the pitcher's mound was swept to the sideline of third base by Tanaka Itoku. Miyuki also felt that the opponent was deliberately wasting Sakai-senpai's pitches. Although Director Kataoka would replace him later, Sakai-senpai was caught.
Before Director Kataoka was replaced, he, as an excellent catcher, would not allow hitters to consume pitchers' pitches at will.
Miyuki thought about it carefully and decided to walk the batter with four balls, and then concentrated on solving the six and seven of the city's three major bats behind, ending the first half of the fourth inning.
Itoku Tanaka, one of the top five baseball players in the city, is a player who, like Murasuke-senpai, has the ability to hit long hits or even home runs. Depending on the situation, it is necessary to prevent the flying baseball from being completely blasted away by him.
With this thought in mind, Miyukiichi also took a big step forward and asked Sakai-senpai for a bad ball from the outside corner.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
"foul ball."
As the umpire signaled for the batter to come on base, Tanaka dropped his bat and ran to first base.
The rest of the game didn't have much trouble. Everything was as Mikoichi had expected. Although Yusuke Murahashi, the city's top three and six batsman, got on base with one hit, the following seven batsmen Yasushita (left fielder and eight batsman)
Kurosaki (catcher) was outed by Aomichi, and the game ended in the first half of the fourth inning.
Unfortunately, in the next four games, Seido and City Sanda were not very satisfied with their results. Kimura Takuya, who pitched in the fifth inning, lost another point in the first half of the eighth inning, causing the scores to change.
It was 3:2; if in the second half of the eighth inning, Aomichi had not scored 1 point from Kazuma Murakami, who had just pitched, and the scores were tied again, there would not have been much suspense in the final game.
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Today's starting pitcher for City Sanda is third-year Kazuki Mori, and the catcher is second-year Kurosaki. Then Supervisor Tahara of City No. 3 changed pitches in the fourth inning, and first-year Kosei Amahisa came on to pitch;
When the catcher was replaced in the eighth inning and first-year Akito Takami came in to catch, the pitcher was also replaced.
"The string connection is not very good..." Yagami looked at the score on the scoreboard and murmured in a low voice.
Problems that usually aren't obvious when playing against other teams were immediately exposed when facing a team like City Junior.
Seido's four-base Tokiyukuni and five-base Murasuke Daiki have a very high on-base rate. As long as the three-base and six-base bats perform normally, they can basically get points from their opponents, but Seido's lower-level performance is very poor.
He was stable and often couldn't get hits from the big three pitchers in the city, so every time he finally got on base, his fourth and fifth at-bats became unavailable because he couldn't get back to home plate.
The lines were not well connected and missed scoring opportunities. In fact, Tetsuya Yuki and Kotaro Tojima, who were the sixth batsmen, were sometimes unable to coordinate well with Tokiyokuni the fourth battalion and Daiki Murasuke the fifth batsman.
To cooperate, this is why Director Kataoka rarely let them play as a member of the center line before.
If Chris had not withdrawn from the first team due to injury last year, his improved offensive level would now be enough to form a stronger offensive line with Higashi Kiyokuni, Murasuke Daiki and Fujii Takashi.
It can be said that as a pitcher (catcher), even if you are playing in the lower position, you must practice hitting.