Facing the outside corner ball thrown by Jinguji with a swing of his arm, the batter Kenta Sato held the bat high and kept the posture of hitting the ball unchanged, without any thought of swinging the bat.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
“bad shot.“
Jinguji swung his arm and threw a ball that was slightly inside the inside corner, but the batter still didn't swing the bat to strike.
Kenta Sato grabbed the bat with his left hand and waved it twice in front of him, then raised it high again and made a gesture of waiting for a hit.
"call out!"
"Whoa!"
"Bang!"
Faced with a low pitch from the outside corner thrown by the pitcher, Kenta Sato swung the bat away from his hand. Unfortunately, his bat ended up passing the flying baseball in an upward and downward manner, causing the catcher's ball to fall.
Successfully caught a baseball flying from the pitcher's mound.
"call out!"
"Whoa!"
"Bang!"
Kenta Sato's swinging bat still missed pitcher Jinguji's high-center pitch, causing him to strike out.
After the batter turned away, Jinguji caught the baseball returned by the catcher with a pitch sleeve, and then panted while spinning on the pitcher's mound, trying to calm down his gradually accelerating breathing rate.
"In the first half of the seventh inning, attacks from the three major universities in the city, four bats, first baseman, Tanaka (Yo)-kun."
After Tanaka Yohei stepped into the batter's box amidst the sound of the announcement, he first swept the ground with his left foot, sweeping the sand toward his right foot, and then stood still on the batter's box.
He held the bat in both hands and turned around, then raised the bat high in a posture waiting for a hit, and turned to look at Jinguji on the pitcher's mound.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
Faced with Jinguji's high pitch from the outside corner, Tanaka Yohei did not swing the bat to hit it.
“bad shot.“
After the referee made his decision, Tanaka Yohei held the bat in both hands and waved it in front of him, again waiting for a hit.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
“bad shot.“
This time it was a ball in the outside corner, which was caused by Jinguji's increased physical exertion and the psychological pressure of facing four batters.
Tanaka Yohei turned sideways to the pitcher's mound and observed the current state of the pitcher Jinguji. He lowered his hands, swung the bat, and once again made a posture waiting for a hit.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
Tanaka Yohei bent over and squatted down, trying to swing the bat in his hand at the low ball in the outside corner thrown by the pitcher. He found that the ball thrown by Jinguji was a bad ball, and he quickly stopped swinging the bat.
Get up and back away.
“bad shot.“
Chris knelt down on one knee, took out the baseball from the glove with his right hand and threw it back to Jinguji-senpai on the pitcher's mound.
Jinguji raised his hand to catch the baseball passed back to him by the catcher, bent down and pinched the powder bag next to him, then straightened up and faced home plate, waiting for Chris's signal to give the ball.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
“good shot.“
Tanaka Yohei did not expect that the Aomichi catcher would dare to let the pitcher throw a low ball in the outside corner. Naturally, he had no time to swing the bat to strike, allowing Chris to open his sleeve and catch the flying baseball.
"call out!"
"Whoa!"
"Ping!"
Jinguji swung his arm and threw a high inside corner ball that was a little low, but it was knocked out by the hitter Yohei Tanaka.
"Out of bounds!"
The baseball that flew from the pitcher's mound was hit by the batter's bat and flew into the stands on the third base side before falling.
"call out!"
"Whoa!"
"Ping!"
"Out of bounds!"
Tanaka Yohei, the city's top three baseball player, swung a high inside corner ball thrown by the pitcher and flew it into the stands on the third base side.
After Tanaka Yohei repositioned himself to wait for the blow, the city's three major cheering groups in the stands were still using rhythmic shouting and slapping each other's microphones to cheer for the players on the field!
"call out!"
"Bang!"
It was a low pitch in the inside corner that flew past the batter's knee. Chris opened his sleeve and successfully caught the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound.
“strike out.“
The referee makes a fist with his right hand and raises it forcefully to indicate that the batter has been struck out by the pitcher.
Tanaka Yohei licked his lips and ran back to the dugout on the first base side with his bat in hand.
"In the first half of the seventh inning, the attack from the three major universities in the city, five bats, center fielder, Tanaka (I)-kun."
After the hitter Itoku Tanaka raised his bat upright and waited for a hit, Jinguji nodded, raised his leg, stepped forward, and swung the baseball in his hand according to the catcher's request.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
Without the batter swinging his arm, Chris raised his sleeve inward and caught the inside-corner ball thrown by Jinguji-senpai.
"Good shot." The referee raised his right hand to indicate that the pitcher threw a good ball.
Tanaka Ittoku held the bat in his right hand, stepped on the ground in the batting area with his right foot, then grabbed the bat in his right hand with his left hand and swung it, regaining his posture waiting for a hit.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
“good shot.“
Chris continued to raise the ball sleeve inward and once again caught the ball in the outside corner thrown by Jinguji-senpai, but the batter still did not swing the bat to strike.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
“bad shot.“
Faced with Jinguji's low-position ball from the outside corner, Tanaka still didn't swing the bat to hit it.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
“bad shot.“
In accordance with the catcher's request, Jinguji swung his arm and threw a low ball in the outside corner, but unfortunately he could not trick the batter into swinging.
Jinguji raised his hand to catch the baseball thrown to him by Chris, turned around, picked up the powder bag behind him, squeezed it, and then gestured to the teammates around him to signify the number of strikes.
"call out!"
"Whoa!"
"Ping!"
Ittoku Tanaka swung the bat and hit the ball in the outside corner that Jinguji threw with his arm, sending it flying toward the right field area.
"Crack!"
The baseball flying from home plate escaped the second baseman's interception, fell to the right field lawn, and then bounced deep into the right field.
Right fielder Isashiki Jun ran over, opened the ball sleeve on his chest to catch the bouncing baseball, and then swung his arm and passed it to second base.
The batter Tanaka Itoku who had already passed first base stopped running back to first base after seeing the right fielder pass the caught baseball to second base, took off his batting glove and handed it to him.
The members of the East and West...
"In the first half of the seventh inning, attack from the city's three major colleges, six bats, left fielder, Murahashi-kun."
Yusuke Murahashi walked outside the batting area, looked at the pitcher on the pitcher's mound, then walked into the batting area and stood up. He held the bat in his left hand and shook it slightly, then held the bat in both hands. He turned around twice and raised it up, then turned to look at the pitcher Jinguji on the mound, waiting for his pitch. This chapter has been completed!