Chapter Fourteen Qingdao vs. Daocheng Industry (4)
"call out!"
"Ping!"
When Kohei Tsukada threw the third ball, Higashikawa swung the bat in his hand with all his strength. The metal bat collided with the white baseball, and the baseball flew upside down into the sky.
"Ha ha!"
After confirming that the baseball flew into the stands and then started to fall, Dong Qingguo raised his right hand with a smile, ran a circle at a leisurely pace, and returned to home plate.
"home run!"
"In the second half of the fourth inning, Qingdao's Dong Qingguo hit the first home run of the game. The score is now 3:1, and Qingdao is temporarily leading!"
"Senior Dong, you are really amazing!"
Dong Qingguo finished running the bases and returned to the dugout with Takashi Fujii amidst the cheers of the crowd.
Murasuke Daiki walked to the batting area with the bat, swung the bat a few times, and then raised the bat in a posture waiting for a hit.
After comforting Tsukada Kohei, Daocheng Industrial catcher Hidesei Shirakawa walked off the pitcher's mound and looked at Aomichi's hitter Murasuke Daiki. Aomichi's five-puncher was also a very difficult hitter to deal with. After thinking about it carefully, he realized Give a signal to Kohei Tsukada on the pitcher's mound.
"call out!"
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"Three outs, exchange offense and defense!"
Daocheng Industrial's defense successfully eliminated Qingdao's five-hitters Murasuke Daiki and six-hitters Kotaro Tojima, and ended the second half of the fourth inning with three outs.
In the first half of the fifth inning, Yuichi Sakai on the pitcher's mound shook his head several times at Chris's batting, which resulted in Chris having to ask the referee for a timeout and run up to the pitcher's mound to communicate with Sakai-senpai. Waiting for Chris to return. Behind the plate, after a moment of hesitation, he signaled to Senior Sakai again, but he still shook his head once, and then reluctantly nodded in agreement.
The baseball thrown by Yu Sakai failed to fly into the catcher's cover. The baseball hit the ground in front of home plate and was not caught by Chris's cover until it bounced up again.
"Fingerball?" Yagami Yagami in the dugout looked at Sakai-senpai's pitching and thought uncertainly.
Is this a new ball type that Mr. Sakai has just practiced recently? The problem is that Mr. Sakai’s fingerball has obviously not been practiced well yet, and the degree of completion is very poor. Using it in the game will only increase the number of bad balls, or it will be directly hit by the batter. Fly out.
On the field, Mr. Sakai threw the baseball in his hand. Inagi Industrial Sixth Baseball Hinojiro Higaki chose to stand forward and swung the bat in advance when the baseball was about to reach home plate. The baseball that flew from the pitcher's mound and the ball that swept over The metal bats collided together and then flew backwards rapidly.
"Center right field!"
The players guarding the outfield quickly ran and chased the ball in the direction it flew, until the midfielder Murasuke Daiki rushed to the wall and watched the ball fly over the wall and land in the stands.
"Another two-run home run! Daocheng Industrial's Higaki Kojiro helped Daocheng Industrial equalize the score with Seido." The commentator said excitedly.
Chris asked the referee for a timeout again, and ran to the pitcher's mound with the infielders, "I mismatched the ball. Sakai-san, don't worry about Higaki's home run. There's no one on base now, and there are two outs." , let’s end this round first.”
After hearing this, Yu Sakai nodded and took the baseball from Chris, "I understand."
Everyone patted Sakai, gathered around and shouted "Come on" before they all dispersed.
Unfortunately, in the first half of the sixth inning, after Yu Sakai eliminated Daocheng Industrial's nine-bat Yudai Iguchi, he was knocked out by Daocheng Industrial's Keisuke Kawanishi for a hit, which not only made his own condition worse, but also made him The second pitcher, Ryuumi Koyanagi, accurately hit the center of the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound. As a result, while he was running to first base, he also sent Keisuke Kawanishi to third base.
Under such circumstances, Yu Sakai had no choice but to be replaced by Director Kataoka, allowing Yagami Yami to pitch.
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In the first half of the seventh inning, Director Kataoka did not let Jinguji hit the field to pitch as he had said before, but instead asked Yagami Ya to continue pitching.
"Iori, we are facing Daocheng Industrial's center line in this inning. I will ask for more change balls." After Yagami stepped onto the pitcher's mound, Chris followed and said.
"I understand." Yagami nodded, motioned Chris to return to the back of home plate, bent down and picked up the magnesium powder packet and threw it in his hand.
Throwing down the magnesium powder package, he gently blew the dust off his fingertips, flexed the fingers of his left hand, and waited for the Daocheng Industrial hitters to come on the field.
Daocheng Industrial's five-bat Yu Funabashi walked up to the batting area, swung the bat a few times, and took a good posture, waiting for Yagami Ya's pitch.
The first ball, throw it here. Chris gave Yagami the signal and set up the ball cover.
Yagami twirled the baseball with his left hand behind his back, then stepped forward with his right leg, leaned forward and threw the baseball in his hand.
"call out!"
"Whoa!"
"Bang!"
Chris's glove caught the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound.
“strike.“
Chris stood up, took out the baseball from his holster and threw it back to Yagami Yagami, then squatted down again, looked at Yu Funabashi who had re-positioned in the batting area, and placed the holster in the low outside corner area.
Let’s have a decisive slide!
"call out!"
"Whoa!"
"Ping!"
"Third baseman, shortstop!" Chris stood up and yelled.
Shortstop Yuki Tanaka was chasing the ball. Seeing that the baseball was about to fly out of the infield, he jumped up, stretched out his arms to catch the flying baseball, rolled sideways to the ground, and extended his right hand to catch the ball toward the referee.
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"out." The referee signals that the batter is out.
Next up was first baseman and six-hitter Higaki Kojiro, who struggled with Yagami for six pitches before being struck out.
The audience on the field was a little worried that Yagami Yagami would be affected by the previous game and make his condition worse, but unexpectedly Yagami Yagami was not affected by this and struck out four consecutive strikes of Daocheng Industrial (in the first half of the sixth inning)
), five bats and six bats, even Daocheng Industrial's center line will find it difficult to make an effective counterattack when encountering Yagami's pitch for the first time.
Playing behind Higaki Kojiro was Inagi Industrial's ace and seven-hitter Yuki Saito. After struggling with Yagami for several balls, he still couldn't escape the fate of being struck out.
"despair!"
In the first half of the ninth inning, with the sound of a hit, Daocheng Corporation's runner Yu Funabashi, who was standing near second base, started sprinting toward third base. Daocheng Corporation's six-bat Hinoki Higaki Ronto, who was standing on the batting box,
He put down the bat in his hand and started running the bases.
Yagami ran down the pitcher's mound, chasing the baseball that was pointed toward first base, picking up the rolling baseball and throwing it toward first base.
"call out!"
Dong Qingguo steadily caught the baseball passed by Yagami Ye...
“out.“
The first base umpire raised his right hand, indicating that the batter Higaki Hakijiro was out. The runner on the other side, Funabashi Yuu, used this to run to third base. This chapter has been completed!