"Damn it, Captain! You alone stole all the limelight."
Everyone stood at the entrance and exit of the rest area to welcome the return of Dong Qingguo and Yuki Tetsuya.
Murasuke Daiki stood up from the waiting area, took the bat and walked to the batting area at home plate. After bowing to the referee, he stood with his legs spread apart, raised the bat and tapped his shoulder.
Then he turned to look at the pitcher at Oberlin on the mound, waiting for a hit.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Ping!"
The white baseball flying from the pitcher's mound was hit hard by the batter again and flew straight into the sky.
The stands on Aomichi's side were filled with excitement. The audience watched Daiki Murasuke run around the field with his right hand raised high, return to home base and high-five each other with Takashi Fujii, who came on behind, and then walked to the dugout and stood together to wait.
Chris, who was playing in the zone, gave each other another high-five.
"With two home runs in a row, the supervisor of Sakura Meilin asked the referee for a timeout. I really didn't expect Aomichi to play so fiercely in an eight-to-four game."
"It must be because I have accumulated too many emotions, and I want to take the opportunity to vent, haha!"
During the TV broadcast, the commentator and the guests joked with each other.
…
In the second half of the first inning, Sakura Meilin's bat didn't cause much trouble, but Jinguji hit him out.
"call out!"
"Ping!"
Naoya Kuraza, who was the right fielder, had just taken two steps when he saw Jinguji-senpai's pitch hit by Sakurai's second bat, flying out, and then flew towards the right field.
Seeing this, he quickly jogged to catch the flying baseball.
"Boom!"
As the baseball deflected in the direction of flight, it went directly over the sideline and landed out of bounds. Naoya Kuraza had no choice but to return to his original position.
Sakurai didn't get discouraged during the second bat, and when the baseball continued to fly from the pitcher's mound, he swung the bat directly to the right.
In response to this, Chris, as the catcher, did not hesitate at all and directly asked Jinguji-senpai to hit a lob, causing Omeline's second bat to be caught by Tojima-senpai at second base.
When Sakurai Miban Tada continued to sweep the hit baseball to the right, everyone in Qingdao saw the opponent's intention.
Do you think that Sakurai and the others think that as a first-year player and a former catcher, Naoya Kuraza will be unaccustomed to playing right field?
First baseman Tetsuya Yuki and second baseman Kotaro Tojima moved closer to the middle area between first and second base, and even center fielder Daiki Murasuke moved to the right.
Soon, Jingujiichi, with the cooperation of Chris, let Tada hit an outfield fly ball, which was then caught by the defensive player and got the last out of the inning.
"Three outs, exchange offense and defense."
"Seniors, don't worry about me. I can guard the right field. If the seniors all move to the right, if they suddenly hit the left field at this time, it will be troublesome!" All the guards in Qingdao returned.
After the rest area, Naoya Kuraza suddenly said to the seniors: "They will definitely be able to get on base easily with this."
"Kuraza is right, you have to prevent them from deliberately attacking to the right first, and then suddenly attacking to the left after paralyzing you." Supervisor Kataoka was very satisfied with Naoya Kuraza's analysis of the situation on the field, "After that, we still have to follow the usual rules.
To defend according to the rhythm.”
"yes!"
…
"call out!"
"Ping!"
The baseball, which was hit by a batter and flew backwards from home plate, bounced a few times after landing, escaped the interceptions of Tetsuya Yuki and Kotaro Tojima, and rolled into the right field area.
Naoya Kuraza ran towards the direction where the baseball rolled, observing the running situation in the infield as he ran.
Oberlin's four-bat Nakamura seemed to feel that he had hit far enough, and after running past first base, he continued to sprint towards second base.
Naoya Kuraza bent down and grabbed the ball with his ball cover, grabbed the baseball that was rolling over, then quickly moved his right hand, grabbed the baseball inside the ball cover, squatted sideways, raised his hand and flew towards the second base.
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I saw Naoya Kuraza swinging his arm, and the baseball thrown out was like a white light rushing across the outfield lawn at a very fast speed, flying directly into the ball sleeve that shortstop Taro Fukuda had already opened and waiting for the right fielder to pass.
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"Crack!"
“out.“
The second-base umpire raised his right hand to indicate that Nakamura, the four-bat batter, was rushing toward second base and that he was out.
“safe.“
At the same time, Tada, the runner who had previously scored a hit from Jinguji Kazuo, took advantage of this opportunity and ran from first base to third base in one go.
"Can I pass the ball well with that posture?"
"It's so fast! It's rare for a catcher to have such speed. It felt like the ball was passed to second base with a 'whoosh'."
"The pass was also very precise. It felt like his teammates didn't move the ball cover at all. It was like the flying baseball was automatically sucked into the second baseman's ball cover."
"With such ball speed and ball control level, I don't think he should be a catcher. Wouldn't it be better to be a pitcher?"
There was a lot of discussion about this in the stands. Many scouts and reporters who came to watch the game took out their notebooks and added their own notes under Naoya Kuraza's name.
"Well done, Zangzao."
"Two out, already two out."
On the field, the Qingdao players were very excited and made two-out gestures to each other.
Behind home plate, Chris, who was squatting half-crouched, looked at Naoya Kuraza's pass and couldn't help but think of what the opponent once said: If he is not a catcher, he will not be too big to be an infielder (outfielder) at any position.
problem."
In the rest area of Oberlin, the supervisor of Oberlin frowned.
He didn't believe that Naoya Kuroza, a catcher, would spend too much time and energy practicing outfield fielding, so when Omeline went on the field and asked him if he wanted to change his tactics, he still insisted on the original plan.
, using Naoya Kuraza as the breakthrough point of attack.
Director Sakura Meilin looked up at the scoreboard at the back of the field. It was now the second half of the seventh inning, and the score between the two sides was 6:2. It was basically certain that they would lose this game.
But he still did not give up the idea of bringing the score closer between the two sides!
"call out!"
"Ping!"
Uchiyama Sakurai's bat hit the baseball pitched by pitcher Kazuo Jinguji and knocked it away hard.
The baseball was hit by the batter and flew backwards toward the right field. Even though Yuuki Tetsuya and Tojima Kotaro tried to intercept it, it was of no avail.
"Is this ball going to go out and land over the fence for a home run?"
Many people in the stands stood up and looked nervously in the direction of right field.
The baseball flying at high speed from home plate began to fall just before it was a little short of the fence below the stands.
"Boom!"
The baseball hit the right field lawn, and Uchiyama, who was running the bases, couldn't help but speed up his running speed when he saw it.
"Huh? Qingdao's right fielder has already caught up."
"Zangza!" Center fielder Murasuke Daiki was also running towards this side. At the same time, Naoya Kuraza on the other side had already run to the spot where the baseball landed in the right field area.
I saw him take a step forward, jump up, stretch out his ball sleeve and grab the bouncing baseball. After landing, he immediately turned around, waved his arm, and threw the baseball in his hand towards second base.
"Bang!" Kotaro Tojima opened his ball sleeve and caught the baseball thrown by Kuroza.
Although Tada, the runner at third base, could not be prevented from returning to home plate to score, Uchiyama, who had already passed first base, could only turn around and run back, turning the original double hit into a one-run hit, and now Uchiyama
Whether he can successfully run back to first base is also a question. This chapter has been completed!