Just when Iori Yagami was thinking wildly by himself, Tanba Koichiro, who had just come on in the ninth inning, successfully struck out the city's junior batter, and successfully scored three outs in the inning, ending the first half of the ninth inning.
Contest.
In the bottom half of the ninth inning, after Murakami Kazuma struck out Aomichi's six-bat Kotaro Tojima, Aomichi's seven-bat Naoya Kuraza had a hit and ran to first base.
At this time, City Sanda asked the referee for another timeout. City Sanmai's infielders gathered on the pitcher's mound. Manaka Kaname, as City Sanmai's herald, also ran out of the City Sanmai dugout, quickly
After talking about Supervisor Tahara's arrangements, he turned around and ran back.
As the catcher, Akito Takami covered his mouth with a ball cover and talked to Murakami. After comforting the pitcher, he turned around and returned to the back of home plate and squatted down again.
Murakami Kazuma returned to pitching and was in a good mood. Even though Aomichi was substituted, he still successfully got the last two outs and ended the ninth inning after struggling for a while.
After the game entered extra innings, neither Aomichi nor Ichisan scored in the tenth inning. Until the first half of the eleventh inning, Koichiro Tanba got on base due to Ichisan's big hitter, which led to a series of subsequent reactions: there was only one Ichimi on the base.
When there were three major runners, Tanba Koichiro was still able to better display his own strength. Until the second city's three major hitters hit the bases, his mentality began to become unbalanced. No matter how the catcher Miyukiichi performed,
Despite the comfort and guidance, he could not recover quickly, and then he was hit by a three-base hit by Itoku Tanaka, one of the city's three top five batsmen, and then lost three consecutive points before getting the last out.
In the second half of the 11th inning, no matter how Aomichi's batting exploded, they could only recover 1 point from Kazuma Murakami, the city's top three pitchers, and lost the game with a score of 6:4.
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"Three outs, game over."
The game, which lasted for 2 hours and 50 minutes, ended when the defensive players of the city's top three teams caught a fly ball from a Seido batter. The 2006 Spring Kanto Regional High School Fieldball Tournament came to an end.
Different from the silence of the audience at Qingdao, the audience at the City's Third University were cheering and high-fiving in celebration.
On the field, players from Qingdao and City Sanda lined up in formation amidst the sound of air raid sirens, then bowed to each other and stepped forward to shake hands one by one.
"This time we won." The captain of the Third City University held the hand of Dong Qingguo, the captain of Qingdao on the opposite side, and said with a smile.
"Next time we can only meet at the National High School Wildball Players Gon Nishi Tokyo Tournament." The city's three top players, their top five batsman Ittoku Tanaka, also said to Higashi Kiyokuni next to him.
"Haha, see you then." Dong Qingguo laughed and shook the hand of Tanaka Yohei, the next top three player in the city.
"See you at the Hagar qualifiers." Manaka said, shaking Yagami's hand.
"See you at the Hagar qualifiers." Yagami Yokai held Manaka Kaname's hand.
Everyone in Qingdao watched the three people in the city sing the school song and receive their medals, and then they boarded the return school bus back to school with the students who came to support them.
The five-day Spring Kanto Tournament is over, and next is the National High School Wildball Players Konishi Tokyo Tournament, known as the Hajia qualifiers, and the last more than a month of pre-match training.
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After taking the school bus back to Qingdao, Director Kataoka rarely said to everyone in Qingdao in a gentle tone: "Everyone can take a good rest on cloudy days and resume training on Saturday."
Even if he lost the game against the Big Three because of his own choices, Director Kataoka, as a former baseball idiot, would still feel depressed. He could only force himself to look away and softly said: "Dismissal"
Let’s go.” After saying that, he turned around and left.
After everyone in Qingdao stood there for a long time, they dispersed in twos and threes, those who went back to their dormitories, and those who went home.
Although Yagami said he was not tired when he returned home, after having dinner and washing up, he briefly reviewed his homework and fell directly on the bed. He felt lazy and weak, and he didn't want to move.
one time.
I'm going to be lazy and take a good rest today, and I won't go to school to practice swinging and pitching.
…
The next day, Yagami changed into his sportswear in the locker room and went to the indoor practice room to do warm-up exercises. He happened to meet the first-year Naoya Kuraza. He asked himself: "Senior Yagami, if you don't mind, can you follow me?"
Let’s practice throwing and catching?”
"Okay." Yagami said with a smile, "Then hurry up and put on your protective gear. You can just practice throwing with Isashiki and the others."
"I'll be ready soon." Naoya Kuraza nodded, quickly put on the catcher's protective gear, and then joined Yagami Yagami, Jun Isashiki, Toru Masuko, and Tetsuya Yuki, who just came over just now, and the other four second-year students.
Go to the pitching area.
Naoya Kuraza was behind the catcher's position, took out a baseball from the bucket next to him, tossed it a few times in his hand, and then passed it to Yagami Yagami who was standing in the pitcher's position to start today's pitching practice.
"Senior, Senior Chris!"
Chris slowed down his pace and looked at the dark-skinned boy running from behind him, a little surprised by the bright smile on his face.
But Chris did not ask about this and continued running in circles.
"You don't seem to care about Kimura's performance yesterday?"
Kurosaki followed closely behind Chris and asked with disapproval, "Do I need to care?"
"Don't underestimate anyone."
Kurosaki looked at Chris, who looked serious in front of him, put away the inappropriate smile on his face, and said with the same serious expression: "I will never look down on anyone, because I know my own limits.
Wherever he is, he may become a better pitcher than me in the future, but with his current strength, I don't need to care."
"Is that so..." Chris stopped and turned to look at Kurosaki Ichigao in front of him with a serious look on his face, "Kurosaki, the supervisor has not responded to you yet."
Kurosaki Kazaka looked indifferent to this, "Oh...I know."
"Senior, I somewhat expected when Director Kataoka would give a reply and what kind of reply it would be."
"The supervisor's answer will be given within the next two weeks. The specific time is after the practice matches with other schools in these two weeks. At that time, the first and second armies will be playing in the competition, Tanba and Kawakami. For
Danbo is looking to see if he can overcome his mental barriers and play his role in the Ha Liga qualifiers."
"As for Kawakami, it's to see if he can retire with Jinguji-senpai and the others to make up for the shortcomings caused by Seido's pitching array..." This chapter has been completed!