Chapter 219 Qingdao vs. City's Three Majors (Thirty-Nine)
Although Yagami's maximum ball speed is 150km/h, controlling the ball at such a speed will become confusing. Therefore, in order to ensure a certain level of ball control, the ball speed of the current four-seam fast ball has no special requirements for catchers.
Under such circumstances, it usually hovers between 147~148km/h. Unexpectedly, at such a ball speed, it was because he did not handle it properly when pitching, causing the baseball he threw to directly hit the sand, wasting the number of balls.
At the same time, it is still unable to strike out the batter as previously imagined.
Tanaka took two steps back and left the batter's box. Chris stood up and threw the baseball back to Yagami Yagami.
Yagami opened his ball sleeve to catch the baseball that Chris passed back to him. He turned around and walked to the powder bag. He bent down and pinched it. He raised his head and looked at the outfield. Then he turned back and looked at the catcher.
Cipher nodded.
"call out!"
When the batter raised his bat high and turned to look at him, Yagami stepped forward with his right leg, twisted his entire upper body, and swung his left hand forward, sending the baseball in his palm flying toward home plate.
Throw it out.
"Whoosh!"
"Ping!"
Ittoku Tanaka swung his bat and hit the low ball from the outside corner thrown by Yagami Yagami hard.
"Crack!"
The baseball that flew backwards from home plate flew over first base. In order to catch the ball, first baseman Yuki Tetsuya stood on the right field sideline and stepped back a certain distance, waiting until he saw the baseball flying over first base.
When he tried to catch it, it was already too late. The baseball fell to the lawn next to the sand first and bounced off the lawn before being caught by his open sleeve.
"Out of bounds!"
The first-base umpire behind Yuki Tetsuya raised his hands to indicate that the ball was a foul ball because the baseball originally dropped just outside the sideline.
"Give!"
Yuuki Tetsuya took out the baseball from the holster and handed it to Yagami who was running towards him.
Tanaka Ittoku stood on the right batting cage, holding the bat in his left hand and swinging it under his body, turning to look at Yagami Yagami who had already walked back to the pitcher's mound.
When the batter stopped swinging, Yagami looked at Chris and nodded slightly at the signal he gave. Then when the batter raised the bat upright and prepared to hit, he turned sideways towards the home plate and raised his right leg towards the home plate.
As he stepped forward, he twisted his body and swung the baseball in his left hand.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
Faced with Yagami Yagami's low and fast outside corner pitch, Tanaka Ittori stared at the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound and swung the metal bat in his hand vigorously.
"Bang!"
When the metal bat swung by the battered passed over the falling baseball, Chris's open ball sleeve was just in time to firmly catch the falling baseball.
As a result, the bat that swept over home plate and the baseball that flew from the pitcher's mound missed each other by a hair's breadth, causing the hitter Ittoku Tanaka's swing to miss.
“Strike out.“
Just when Tanaka Yitoku knelt on the ground with his right leg and swung the bat behind him due to excessive force, the referee raised his right hand and made a fist-like gesture to make a ruling against him.
When he got up, catcher Chris also got up and took out the baseball from his glove, reached out and passed it to first base, and then got the second out of the inning.
Tanaka Itoku left the field with the bat in his left hand. Just as he walked to the waiting area, the voice of the female broadcaster rang again: "In the first half of the eleventh inning, the attack of the three major universities in the city, six bats, substitute hitter, Murahashi Jun."
Yusuke Murahashi stood on the left batter's box, grabbed the bat with both hands and swung it, then raised it upright and turned to look in the direction of the pitcher's mound.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
Faced with a ball thrown into the inside corner from the pitcher, hitter Yusuke Murahashi made no other action except changing his line of sight and staring at the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound.
"Good shot." The referee raised his right hand and made a decision.
Yusuke Murahashi held the bat in his right hand and swung it, turned to look at the pitcher on the mound, held the bat with both hands on his shoulders, then straightened it upright, waiting for the arrival of the baseball thrown by the pitcher.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Crack!"
Faced with pitcher Yagami Yagami's pitcher who continued to throw the inside corner ball at the junction of thigh and abdomen, Murahashi Yusuke swung the metal bat in his hand hard, but the baseball suddenly fell to the sand, causing his swing to miss.
Chris stood up and walked over, bending down to pick up the baseball that rolled to the side. If the batter hadn't been deceived by Yagami's pitch, with the completion of the fork ball just now, no matter how bold he was, he would not have dared to use the third ball again. Second time.
Chris stretched out his hand to wipe off the sand on it, then reached out and threw the ball to Yagami on the pitcher's mound.
After Yagami opened his sleeve to catch the pass, he turned around and bent down to pinch the powder bag on the ground. After that, he put his hands on his chest, looked up at the batter standing next to home plate, and waited. Catcher's batting code.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Ping!"
Yusuke Murahashi swung the bat and hit a low ball in the outside corner thrown by Yagami Yagami. The baseball was hit by the bat and bounced onto the sand in front of home plate, then flew high into the air.
"Crack!"
Chris started running behind the batter, looking up at the baseball flying in the air until it landed on the turf in the outfield area.
"Out!" Chris turned around and ran back to home plate after seeing the baseball fall to the turf outside the field.
Yusuke Murahashi held the bat in his right hand and swung it under his body, then twisted his wrist twice around his body. When he was ready, he directly raised the bat upright and turned his head to look in the direction of the pitcher's mound.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Ping!"
Yagami threw the ball to the outside corner with his arm. Because the ball path was a little high, the batter's bat hit it accurately. Then it flew high and rushed towards the left field.
"Left field!"
Yusuke Murahashi dropped his bat and looked up at the baseball that was fading away while sprinting towards first base. Behind him was Chris who took off his face protector and stood up to yell.
After the baseball thrown by Yagami was hit hard towards him by the batter, left fielder Takashi Fujii started chasing the baseball that was hit by the batter from a position close to the infield, and rushed all the way deep into the left field until Even after chasing it to the outfield sideline, it could not catch up with the baseball that had already begun to fall.
"Boom!"
The baseball falling from mid-air hit the home plate wall, fell from the wall to the outfield lawn, and then bounced and rolled to where Takashi Fujii was.
Takashi Fujii took two steps back and bent down to pick up the baseball on the ground. At the same time, the hitter Yusuke Murahashi was still sprinting towards second base. At this time, he was about to run to the sand at second base.
Unfortunately, Takashi Fujii had a double hit on this field, and when he was unable to pass the ball to second base for blocking, he could only choose to pass the ball to his nearest teammate, and then let his teammate pass the ball to the pitcher's mound. of Iori. This chapter has been completed!