Yagami bent down and squeezed the magnesium powder packet, then took out the baseball from the holster and carried it behind his back.
Chris looked at Daocheng Industrial's ace Saito Yuki in front of him, and after a simple calculation, he gave the secret signal to Yagami Yagami on the pitcher's mound.
Yagami nodded, raised his legs and took a step, swinging his arms to throw out the baseball in his hand.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Bang!"
The bat Yuki Saito swung passed the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound, and his swing missed.
"nice shot!"
After catching the flying baseball, Chris stood up, took out the baseball from his holster and threw it back.
Funabashi Yuu, who was standing at third base, took a few steps toward home plate, and when Yagami turned around to look over, he immediately stepped back.
Giving a signal to Yagami, Chris punched the ball cover a few times, letting Yagami focus on dealing with the batter and letting him deal with the runners. Then he opened and set up the ball cover, waiting for Yagami's pitch.
After Yagami nodded in agreement, he raised his legs forward and swung his arms to throw the baseball out of his palm.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Bang!"
147km/h!
The speed of the ball shown below the scoreboard caused the spectators in the stands on Aomichi's side to burst into cheers. Yagami Ya's powerful pitching convinced the spectators who came to cheer for Aomichi to win the game.
It belongs to Qingdao.
Chris stood up and threw the ball in his hand to Yagami Yagami. He already had two good balls. One more good ball and he got the second out of the game.
"call out!"
The baseball flew off the pitcher's mound and flew straight towards home plate.
"Bang!"
Chris looked at the obviously wide path and could only move the ball cover to catch the ball. Naturally, Yuki Saito would not swing at such an obviously bad ball.
“ball.“
It seems that Yagami's control of the four-seam fast ball that is thrown at full strength is not good enough, and the ball type must be changed.
Chris stood up and threw the baseball back to Yagami Yagami. After squatting down again, he thought about the ball arrangement below, and then placed the ball sleeve in the higher inner corner.
"call out!"
"Whoa!"
"Bang!"
“strike out.“
…
"call out!"
"Whoa!"
"Bang!"
“strike out.“
"Three out! Exchange offense and defense."
Iori Yagami walked off the pitcher's mound and let out a sigh of relief. The ball just now would have been a bad ball if Inagi Corporation's eighth bat, that is, if their catcher Hidesei Shirakawa didn't swing the bat.
It seems that I will have to spend more time controlling the fast and straight ball in the future.
After returning to the rest area, Senior Matsuda was waiting for Iori Yagami and Chris to come back with two glasses of water. When he saw the two of them coming over, he handed the glasses over directly.
"Thank you, Matsuda-senpai." Yagami took the glass of water and drank it in one gulp.
At the same time, on the field.
"Whoa!"
"Ping!"
"home run!"
"Goodbye home run! In the second half of the ninth inning, Aomichi's Daiki Murasuke broke the stalemate with a bye home run." The commentator's voice was heard in the cheers of the audience.
come over.
"5:6, Seido won the semi-finals of the Autumn Tokyo Metropolitan Conference with a slight advantage of one point, and took the lead in advancing to the finals."
"Oh! Oh! Oh!"
"Murasuke-senpai hit a bye home run!"
"Murasuke, you are so good!"
"We won, we advanced to the finals!"
The rest area of Qingdao was also filled with cheers.
It can be said that the victory of this game was entirely due to the outstanding performance of Iori Yagami, although there were also mistakes in the tactical arrangements made by the Kunitomo supervision of Daocheng Industrial. For example, in the fifth game, the ace Saito Yuki was not allowed to play, but another one was allowed to play.
Senior pitcher Yudai Iguchi came on. Although Director Kunitomo let him play in the fifth inning with the idea of nurturing him, this also allowed Aomichi to score two runs from him in the bottom half of the seventh inning, which made both sides
The score was changed to 4:5.
At the same time, compared to the cheers from Qingdao, the players from Daocheng Industrial all started crying. Yudai Iguchi, who thought it was his own responsibility for losing the game, burst into tears.
Supervisor Kunito put his hands behind his back and said, "Let's go gather. Don't lose your dignity if you lose the game."
On the pitcher's mound, Daocheng Industrial ace Saito Yuki, who was still in a daze, raised his head and looked at the blue sky above his head.
If you want to enter Koshien again, you have to wait until next summer.
…
On the field, when the players from Qingdao and Daocheng Industrial lined up to salute, sang the school song, paid tribute to the support group, and then returned to the rest area to sort out their belongings, the players from Red Sea Osugada and City Sanda had already arrived.
"Aomichi High School, congratulations on entering the finals." Toshihiko Tahara, the supervisor of the city's third major university, said to Supervisor Kataoka.
"Thank you, and I look forward to seeing you in the finals." Supervisor Kataoka said goodbye to Toshihiko Tahara, the top three supervisors in the city, with a smile on his face.
The players from Qingdao and the players from the Third City University greeted each other, packed up their belongings, and immediately left the rest area and entered the indoor passage of Jingu’s second stadium.
There were many reporters waiting to interview Aomichi. Supervisor Kataoka first asked Minister Ohta to take away the entire army, and then he went to greet the reporters and accepted their interviews.
"Put your things on the school bus first, take a rest, and then let's watch the match between Red Sea Osugada and City Sanda." Minister Ohta said to everyone in the First Army.
The game has been ongoing, and many family members or friends of the players will come to Jingu Stadium to watch the game. Now that the game is over, I must meet them to express their joy after winning the game.
As soon as everyone in the first army put their backpacks and golf equipment on the school bus, they dispersed in twos and threes.
…
After everyone in the first army reunited, they entered the stands of the second stadium of the Shrine from the audience entrance to watch the game that would determine the next opponent.
The game hasn't started yet, but the players from Red Sea Suda and City Sanda are doing warm-up exercises on the edge of the field.
In this game between Red Sea Osugada and City Sanda, the suspense between them is no worse than the game between Qingdao and Daocheng Industrial. Red Sea Osugada (the prototype is Tokai Osugao) was the goalkeeper in the quarterfinals match 5:0 against Feng Didong.
Unlike the former baseball powerhouse Aomichi, which is gradually declining, Red Sea Osugada, as a well-known strong school in the Tokyo metropolitan area, is gradually becoming a new baseball powerhouse in the Tokyo metropolitan area.
After 2 hours and 6 minutes, Red Sea Osugada defeated City No. 3 with a score of 3:4 and became the second team to advance to the finals.
The members of the Qingdao First Army stood up from the stands and faced the Red Sea Osugada players on the field - the day after tomorrow, they will have a showdown.
"There is one last game." After Dong Qingguo said this, he asked everyone in the army to leave and prepare to return to school.
As long as they win the game against Red Sea Osugada, they can go to Koshien next spring! This chapter has been completed!