The chief umpire signals that the Qingdao batter is out.
"Three outs, exchange offense and defense!"
Aomichi Kyuuban Jingujiichi waved the bat in his hand with some annoyance, walked out of the batting area, and trotted back to the rest area with his head lowered.
By the end of the seventh game, the score between the two sides was still 2:2, making the atmosphere in the dugout very depressing.
Murasuke Daiki saw Chris who had changed his protective gear and was getting ready to play. When he was about to say something, Chris smiled and said: "Why are everyone so serious? Isn't baseball as long as you don't lose points?"
Will you lose the game?"
"So far, we have not lost..." Chris, as the core and soul of the team, stood up when morale was low, "Isn't it right!!"
Jinguji Kazu, who changed his protective gear, picked up the pitcher's ball cover and was also ready to play, also stood up at this time: "Whether it is the eighth and ninth inning, or overtime, I will guard it."
Yes, not giving them any chance to score."
"Jinguji is right, guard the first half of the eighth inning first, and then think about scoring later." Director Kataoka was very satisfied with the performance of Chris and Jinguji, and he fulfilled his role as the core of the team.
With the ace's responsibility, "Okay, get ready to play."
"Come on!" Qingdao's defensive players came outside the rest area and jogged into the field.
"Who could have imagined that it would become what it is now."
"The Red Sea Sugata obviously got seven hits, but only had 2 RBIs."
"Yeah! Qingdao only had four hits and two RBIs each."
"It's already the first half of the eighth inning, is it going to go into overtime?"
The spectators who supported Red Sea Osugada in the stands were quite emotional when they saw that the score was still 2:2 on the scoreboard.
Judging from the current situation of this game, the strength of both sides can be said to be evenly matched. In the first seven innings, Red Sea Ohsuda had seven hits, and Aomichi also had four hits. However, because the defense of both sides was too tenacious, Aomichi or
Even if Sugata gets hits from the opponent, he still can't connect them effectively to score enough points.
Chris, who was standing behind home plate, moved his shoulders, squatted down and looked at Jinguji-senpai on the pitcher's mound.
In the eighth inning of the game, Red Sea Ohsuda's bat had already reached the fourth round. If Jinguji-senpai hadn't pitched in the seventh inning, Red Sea Ohsuda's current batters might have been able to go faster.
If you adapt to Jinguji-senpai's pitching, the next situation will be very unfavorable for Aomichi!
It can only be said that thanks to the starting pitcher Yagami Yagami, Red Sea Ohsuda did not come close to overcoming Yagami Yagami's pitching until the sixth inning. At the same time, Aomichi had a more favorable game situation than Red Sea Ohsuda.
Chris glanced at the Red Sea Ohsuda Ichibo Fujii who was standing on the batter's box, gave a signal to Jinguji-senpai, opened and set up his sleeve.
Jinguji nodded, took a deep breath, stepped forward, twisted his waist, leaned forward and threw the baseball in his hand.
"call out!"
Fujii waved his arm, and the metal bat swept over home plate.
"Whoosh!"
The baseball flying from the pitcher's mound avoided the batter's sweeping metal bat and fell into the open sleeve of catcher Chris.
"Bang!"
Chris stood up, took out the baseball from his sleeve, and passed it to Jinguji-senpai on the pitcher's mound.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Soldiers!"
"Out of bounds!"
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Soldiers!"
“safe.“
Although Fujii, the Red Sea Osuda's hitter, hit the bases with a hit, he was still unable to put much pressure on Aomichi.
Like Seido, Red Sea Osugada, who has never opened up the score with Seido, the atmosphere in their dugout is also very depressing. As Chris said, baseball does not lose if it does not lose points, but it also does not score.
You can't win.
Especially when they discovered that Qingdao's trump card was not that easy to conquer, the atmosphere in the rest area naturally became more tense and depressing.
After Jingujiichi got rid of the second-bat Yamamoto and the third-bat Michiohara who came in behind Fujii, he was hit by the fourth-bat Ishikuro Hayabusa of the Red Sea Ohsuda who came on next and ran to first base; after that,
Then, the Red Sea Ohsuda five-bat Ueki hit a double, allowing him to run to second base, and at the same time, he also sent Ishiguro Hayabusa from first base to third base.
Kandai Fujikawa, who played behind Ueki, took advantage of Aido's ace Jinguji Ichi's unstable state and knocked out another hit from his hand, sending Ishiguro Hayabusa back to home plate at third base.
Score, breaking the stalemate between the two sides.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Ping!"
Red Sea Osuda Nanashigematsu successfully hit the baseball that flew from the pitcher's mound, but unfortunately it was not a good hit and it was a ground ball.
After the Red Sea Ohsuda Minami Shigematsu hit a ground ball, the infield fielding players responded to the call. While keeping their center of gravity lowered, they also had to predict the route of the baseball rolling. The green ball closest to the rolling baseball was
Second baseman Tanaka Yuki tried his best to run to a position only two or three steps away from the baseball, face the ball head-on, and prepare to catch the ball.
Yuuki Tanaka's legs were slightly bent, his body was half squatting, and the tip of his ball sleeve was touching the ground to catch the rolling baseball.
After catching the ball, Tanaka Yuki raised his hand slightly to cushion the impact of the baseball rolling over, and to facilitate the subsequent connection of the ball, trying to pass the received baseball back to first base in the shortest possible time.
Tanaka Yuki took out the baseball from his holster, started to follow up with step passes and other consecutive actions, and swung the baseball in his hand toward first base.
“out.“
"Three outs, exchange offense and defense."
After the first half of the eighth inning, Taro Fukuda immediately ran back to Aido's rest area, put on his batting cap, put on his knee pads and elbow pads, picked up his bat and walked up to the field.
"call out!"
After Taro Fukuda stood up in the batter's box at Aomichi, Red Sea Osuda ace Kazuya Sada waved his arm and threw the baseball in his hand.
"Whoosh!"
Staring at the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound to home plate, Taro Fukuda twisted his waist and moved his arms to sweep the metal bat in his hand.
"Give it to me!"
Taro Fukuda swung the bat in his hand to the end.
"Ping!"
With a crisp sound, the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound was hit by Taro Fukuda and flew backwards towards the infield.
Upon seeing this, Taro Fukuda dropped the metal bat in his hand and started running the bases.
After the baseball flew upside down from home plate and landed in the infield, it was immediately picked up by Red Sea Osugada's shortstop Dohara, and then turned around and passed to first baseman Ishiguro Hayabusa, successfully blocking the running base of Taro Fukuda.
Outside the base.
Taro Fukuda could only run back to home base, pick up the bat he just dropped, and return to Aomichi's dugout. This chapter has been completed!