At 12:25 noon on July 28, Qingdao's school bus took Qingdao players to the Meiye Jingu Stadium.
Compared with previous games, the number of spectators coming to watch today was much larger.
Above the stadium, the radio was broadcasting today's game content and related precautions.
In the stands on the first base side, almost all the support seats were occupied by Qingdao's support group, and some of the remaining empty seats were also occupied by fans of the team or family members of the players.
When Qingdao athletes go to the bench to do warm-up activities, they can hear someone shouting their names to cheer them on.
Captain Dong Qingguo quickly returned from guessing, Qingdao attacked first, and Daocheng Industrial 3 attacked later.
"Tung, let's have a slogan." Supervisor Kataoka signaled to Tung Qingguo.
"Yes." Dong Qingguo gathered the others together and formed a circle.
Everyone raised their hands and pressed their chests. Dong Qingguo pointed at his chest with his thumb and said loudly: "Who are we?"
Others shouted loudly: "The King Qingdao!"
Because of the shouts of the Seido players, the members of the Seido Baseball Club's second and third teams in the stands also started shouting. At the same time, members of the support group and fans of the team also started cheering together.
Suddenly, waves of support erupted from the stands on the Qingdao side.
The shouts about Qingdao echoed over the Mingye Shrine Stadium and never dispersed for a long time.
In the rest area of Daocheng Industrial on the third base side, Narimiya Naru saw Seido players forming a circle and shouting loudly, then asked Harada-senpai next to him: "Such a passionate slogan! Do we have it?"
"No." Masako Harada shook his head in denial.
"Is that so..." Cheng Gongming pouted and said unconvincedly: "You even shouted out 'dominate the whole country'. Wouldn't it be embarrassing if we were defeated later?"
"Let's defeat them first! Naru." Harada Masako was a little afraid that Narumiya, a troubled boy, would directly go up and say this to him! Then he would be beaten up by those people from Qingdao.
"No matter how many times you hear Qingdao's slogan, it still makes people's blood boil." The city's junior player who won the semifinals at 12:26 did not leave the Meiye Jingu Stadium to return to school. At this time, he was watching Qingdao in the stands.
The game with Daocheng Industrial.
"It's just sensationalism!" Amejiu Mitsusei, a first-year pitcher from the city's third major university, looked down upon Seido's slogan.
"Hey! Tianjiu!" The top three players in the city sitting next to him looked around and found that there were no fans of the Qingdao team around, so he poked Tianjiu Guangsheng's arm with his elbow.
"What are you doing! I didn't say anything wrong!" Tianjiu Guangsheng looked quite unhappy. He didn't feel that what he said was wrong.
The junior players in the city all felt that Tian Jiu was very difficult to control. Since the supervisors didn’t care much about him, let him go! After the players from Qingdao finished shouting their slogans, they dispersed and continued their previous activities.
Warm up before the game.
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At 12:59 p.m., the referee signaled that it was time to start the game. Players from Qingdao and Daocheng Industrial lined up at the edge of the court under the leadership of their captains, and then rushed together at the referee's order.
Go to home plate.
Players from Qingdao and Daocheng Industrial stood face to face, and their eyes as they interacted with each other were full of fighting spirit.
"present!"
Both sides bowed and saluted, and then the players from Qingdao exited the field, leaving only the starting players from Daocheng Industrial making final preparations on the field.
Daocheng Industrial's ace Saito Yuki stood on the pitcher's mound, moving his shoulders, lowering his head and stepping forward to measure the condition of the pitcher's mound with his feet, while kicking the soil on the pitcher's mound that had just been sprayed by the staff, feeling that everything was fine.
After that, he walked back to the center of the pitcher's mound and stood up.
The female announcer's voice came from the radio: "In the first half of the first inning, Seido High School's attack, one-bat, shortstop, Fukuda-kun."
Taro Fukuda walked into the left batting area with the bat, swung the bat, moved his feet, and then assumed a posture waiting to hit. 13:03, Saito Yuki stepped forward, waved his arm and threw a palm
in baseball.
"call out!"
The baseball roared from the pitcher's mound. Before Taro Fukuda could swing the bat, the baseball had already flown past home plate and landed in the open sleeve of catcher Hidesei Shirakawa.
"nice shot!"
Taro Fukuda swung the bat and then raised the metal bat in his hand again.
"call out"
The baseball came flying from the mound again, and it was another outside corner ball.
"Bang!"
For some reason, Taro Fukuda did not swing the bat, and allowed the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound to fly past his eyes, and then fly into Shirakawa Eisei's open ball sleeve.
This is a ball at a low position in the outside corner. The number of balls now has reached one good ball and one bad ball. There are still two good balls left to strike out the batter.
Daocheng Industrial catcher Hidesei Shirakawa passed the baseball back to pitcher Yuki Saito, and after squatting again, he squatted in a similar posture to before. I don't know if it was to confuse the batter, or if it really allowed the pitcher to continue throwing outside corners.
"call out!"
Yuuki Saito shook his arm, and the baseball flew from the pitcher's mound to home plate again. Taro Fukuda still maintained his posture waiting for the hit, and still did not swing the bat at the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound in front of him.
"Bang!"
“ball.“
This is a bad ball with a low inside corner and a certain deceptive nature.
"Crack!"
Pitcher Saito Yuki raised his hand to catch the baseball Shirakawa passed back to him with his ball glove, and then followed the signal given to him by the catcher, took out the baseball from the ball glove and swung it.
"call out!"
Another outside corner? Taro Fukuda aimed directly at the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound and swung the bat vigorously.
"Buzz!"
"Ping!"
The metal bat swept by the batter collided with the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound, and then with a crisp sound, the baseball that fell down in the collision with the bat shot straight into the sky, heading towards center field and close to the left field.
The direction flew backwards rapidly.
"Boom!"
When the baseball approached the center field sideline, it suddenly hit the center field lawn, then bounced and hit the fence in front. At this time, left fielder Yu Funabashi and center fielder Keisuke Kawanishi also chased after them.
Unfortunately, they had to wait until the baseball hit the fence and rolled back before catching the ball. At the same time, the batter Taro Fukuda had already passed the first and second bases in one breath and was sprinting towards the third base.
"call out!"
Funabashi Yuu picked up the baseball that was still rolling on the outfield lawn, then turned around and swung the baseball in his hand towards third base.
"Bang!".
“safe.“
Third baseman Ryuumi Koyanagi raised his hand to catch the baseball passed by the left fielder after leaving the third base bag. Unfortunately, Taro Fukuda also slid onto the third base bag at this time, allowing him to use a weak
As a hitter, he completed a very rare triple hit. This was a result contributed by many factors.