Chapter 43: The Unfinished Second Battle of Jiashien in Spring
Murasuke Daiki picked up the baseball that was still rolling on the ground. He gave up the block and ran to second base. Kansai batter Takeshi Ueda, who was about to rush to third base at any time, waved his arm and swung the baseball in the direction of home plate.
passed.
The baseball thrown by Murasuke Daiki flew a long distance and bounced next to the pitcher's mound. Jingujiichi caught it, then turned around and passed the caught baseball to the man behind the home plate.
Kentaro Matsuda.
When Kentaro Matsuda received a pass from Jinguji Kazuichi and was about to hit the runner, Ippei Yasui touched home plate first. The referee spread his arms and signaled Kansai to score another run.
By this time, Seido's catcher Kentaro Matsuda passed the baseball to third baseman Higashi Kiyokuni, and it was too late to block Kansai's Takeshi Ueda, who was about to rush to third base.
"Three base hits!"
"The current score is 7:6! Kansai responded to Aomichi's triple in the first half of the seventh inning and recovered 2 points! In the bottom half of the ninth inning, there was someone on third base and two outs. Aomichi
The Tao is already in crisis..."
Kansai five-bat player Shota Kadoda stood on the batting box, moved his wrists, and waved the metal bat in his hand, waiting for a hit.
"call out!"
The baseball shot straight out of the pitcher's mound and rushed toward home plate. Shota Kadoda looked at the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound, stepped forward suddenly, and vigorously swung the metal bat in his hand.
"Whoa!"
Unfortunately, Kadoda's swing angle was a little too high, and he did not hit the baseball that was speeding past home plate.
"Bang!"
“strike.“
Seido catcher Kentaro Matsuda stood up and took out a baseball from his glove, then passed it back to pitcher Jinguji Kazu on the mound. He squatted down again and gave him a new signal.
"call out!"
"Whoa!"
"Bang!"
Two good shots.
Jinguji adjusted quickly, and the three-base hit of Kansai batter Takeshi Ueda did not have much impact on him.
"call out!"
"Whoa!"
"Ping!"
Shota Kadoda's swing was quite heroic, and the metal bat that he swung over successfully hit the baseball that was flying from the pitcher's mound, and swept it towards the first base sideline.
"Out of bounds!"
On the pitcher's mound, Seido ace Jinguji Kazu followed the signal given to him by catcher Kentaro Matsuda and threw the baseball out of his palm.
"call out!"
Shota Kadoda stepped forward and vigorously swung the metal bat in his hand.
"Whoa!"
The baseball that flew from the pitcher's mound suddenly began to fall in front of home plate, and happened to meet the bat of Kansai batter Shota Kadoda.
"Ping!"
Kansai's five-hitter Shota Kadoda successfully guessed the pitch of Seido catcher Kentaro Matsuda.
Shota Kadoda, who was on the batting box, looked at the baseball that flew backwards after being hit by him, and immediately dropped the bat and started running the bases.
The baseball landed on the right field turf and bounced several times before it was pocketed by Aomichi's right fielder Hiroshi Ohta.
Hiroshi Ohta took out the baseball from his bag and turned around and passed it to the first base. Unfortunately, it was a little late. Shota Kadoda made the slide first. Takeshi Ueda at third base also took this opportunity to smoothly run back to home plate to help
Kansai tied the score with Aido.
In the second half of the ninth inning, under the strict defense of everyone at Seido, in addition to allowing Kansai's five-bat Shota Kadoda to hit first base and sending Takeshi Ueda back to home plate for another run, even the subsequent
Kansai catcher and six-bat player Obara also hit a hit and advanced to first base. Under the watchful eye of Aomichi's defense, he was still unable to help his team score. In the end, the Kansai side was left with two bases, and Aomichi
Successfully won the last two outs and ended the ninth inning.
In the next six overtime games, Qingdao and Kansai were stimulated by their opponents to constantly change and improve various existing problems and flaws in the team. Until the end of the fifteenth game, the score between the two sides was still 7
∶7, we can only wait until tomorrow for another competition.
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On the afternoon of March 29th, Director Kataoka summoned everyone from Qingdao for a meeting as usual. At the meeting, Director Kataoka first commented on the situation and problems encountered in today's game, and then made arrangements for tomorrow's match with Kansai
The starting lineup for the game.
After the meeting, Iori Yagami returned to his room, took out his mobile phone, and looked through the text messages sent to him by his relatives and friends while thinking about today's game.
After Qingdao lost Chris as the soul of the team, their strength is indeed about the same as that of Kansai. Tomorrow is inevitable and it will be another tough battle.
All Iori Yagami can do is to give full play to his own strength and not hold back the team.
After Yagami replied to the text messages sent to him by others, he immediately turned off his phone, picked up the small bag containing the ball cover and baseball, and left the room.
Yagami went down to the first floor and waited for a while. Almost everyone else had arrived, and Dong Qingguo took the lead and took them to the middle school they borrowed.
Everyone in Qingdao dispersed after arriving at the middle school playground. Everyone was doing various trainings such as swinging the bat, running bases, and fielding according to their own goals.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
"call out!"
"Bang!"
"The ball just now was easily beaten by Kansai's four-bat Ueda Takeshi and five-bat Kadoda Shota." Kentaro Matsuda stood up after catching the baseball thrown by Yagami Yagami and said, he
Yagami and Yagami are doing simulated pitching exercises.
"Keep the ball down a little lower." After Kentaro Matsuda threw the baseball in his hand back to Yagami, he squatted down again and opened the ball cover to wait for Yagami's pitch.
After receiving the baseball that Matsuda-senpai passed back to him, Yagami recalled the information he learned about the Kansai hitters in today's game. Yagami imagined Ueda Takeshi standing on the batting box.
Lifting his legs, taking steps, waving his arms, he threw the baseball in his hand out again.
"call out!"
The baseball flew over the pitcher's mound and got into Matsuda-senpai's open ball sleeve at a very fast speed, making a lot of noise.
"Bang!"
Kentaro Matsuda tightened his grip on the ball cover. During this period, the quality of the baseball thrown by Yagami became stronger and stronger. If the catcher did not have a firm grip, the baseball that was caught accidentally would escape from the catcher's ball cover.
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The reason why he caught the ball in the second half of the ninth inning was because he was not mentally prepared for Jinguji's sudden increase in power during the game, and he did not grasp the baseball inside the ball cover, causing the baseball to accidentally slip out of the ball cover.
The reason why Chris is trusted by everyone is because even if he is not mentally prepared, he can still find and solve problems very well, and there will be no such mistakes at all.
"Iori, how many pitches did you throw?" After finishing the fielding practice, Dong Qingguo wiped the sweat on his forehead with a towel, put the ball cover on, and walked over with the bat in hand and asked.
"Almost sixty balls were thrown," Yagami asked, "Are the seniors going to practice hitting?"
"Everyone has three balls, and we can go back together after playing." Dong Qingguo suggested, waving the metal bat in his hand.
"Okay." Yagami nodded in agreement.
As the first batter, Higashi Seikuni walked directly to the catcher Kentaro Matsuda and stood up, raised the bat, and made a gesture of waiting for a hit.
Yagami followed the signal given to him by Matsuda-senpai, raised his leg, took a step, swung his arm, and threw the baseball out of his palm.