In the second half of the eighth inning, behind the six-bat third-year senior was Kusunoki Fumiya, who had seven bats. He swung his bat, stood on the batting box, and turned to look at the new pitcher Kurosaki Kazdaka on the mound.
, looking eager to try.
Catcher Ono Hiroshi noticed that Kusunoki-senpai wanted to perform well next, and in order to improve his rating in front of the supervisor, he would definitely swing the bat actively in the future.
Ono Hiroshi gave a signal to Kurosaki Ichiko on the pitcher's mound and placed the ball sleeve in the low inside corner.
Kurosaki nodded, looked at the second-year hitter at home plate, twisted his waist, and swung his right hand to throw the baseball in his palm.
"call out!"
Sophomore Fumiya Kusunoki swung the metal bat in his hand vigorously at the baseball that came rushing from the pitcher's mound.
"Whoosh!"
Kusunoki Fumiya's swing failed.
A straight ball with a ball speed of 143km/h.
"Bang!"
The baseball flying from the pitcher's mound accurately flew into Ono Hiroshi's sleeve.
Ono Hiroshi felt a numbness in his palms, and he could only grab the baseball that was still spinning in the sleeve.
“nice pitch.“
After Director Kataoka's voice sounded, many people reacted.
"Huh? It's so fast!"
"It's really fast. It should be the fastest among the freshmen."
"I didn't expect Qingdao to have two good pitchers this year."
The audience outside the venue was quite excited about this.
Kusunoki Fumiya frowned, remembering what Miyauchi had just said, this guy's ball speed is pretty good, he hit 144km/h when he first joined the club, which is faster than Kimura Takuya who played before, which is just right for me to show off.
On the second pitch, Ono Hiroshi gave his signal to Kurosaki Ikko on the pitcher's mound and placed the ball sleeve in a high inside corner area.
Pitcher Kazuki Kurosaki looked at the signal given by Hiroshi Ono, showed a smile, nodded, waved his arm, and threw the baseball in his palm.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
Kusunoki Fumiya looked at the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound, and swung the bat vigorously, so fast that it caused a burst of sound.
"Bang!"
The timing of swinging the bat was a little earlier. Even if Kusunoki Fumiya discovered later that Kurosaki Ikko was throwing not a fast straight ball but a changeup ball, it was too late to change and he could only watch the baseball flying from the pitcher mound hit him.
The ball flew past the home plate before his eyes and fell into Ono Hiro's open pocket.
Kurosaki Kazaka easily took the baseball thrown by Ono Hiro and looked at Kusunoki-senpai who had re-positioned himself to wait for the strike. His eyes seemed to be on fire.
Kurosaki couldn't help but show a sarcastic smile, which made Kusunoki Fumiya at home plate even more angry after seeing his smile.
Only then did Kurosaki realize belatedly that the hitter in front of him, Kusunoki-senpai, was a member of the Seido Baseball Club and was not a hitter belonging to a different team.
It’s really troublesome!
After Kurosaki suppressed the smile on his face, he turned his attention to Ono Hiro, waiting for his code.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
Kusunoki Fumiya stared closely at the baseball rushing from the pitcher's mound, stepped forward, and swung the metal baseball in his hand with all his strength.
Kurosaki Ichigao, stop looking down on others!
"Bang!"
"Three strikes and no hits are out, failure!"
…
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Bang!"
“strike out.“
"Three outs, exchange offense and defense."
As Director Kataoka announced the end of the game, the senior students realized that they were beaten three times and three times by the first-year students for the second time.
In the top of the ninth inning, Naoya Kuraza scored another run for the freshman team with a home run.
In the second half of the ninth inning, after getting rid of Sakai-senpai who was the first to hit, the third-year senior took over next.
The catcher in the ninth inning was replaced by Naoya Kuraza, and his ideas on ball distribution were not comparable to those of Hiroshi Ono.
The senior team is more adaptable to balls thrown to the inside corner, but it is not impossible to hit the ball thrown to the outside corner... The next bat, the super aggressive senior will choose to swing the bat no matter what the pitcher throws.
Moreover, the force of the blow is still very strong. Once he is put on base, it will be difficult to handle!
Kurosaki, throw the ball here! Naoya Kuraza gave his signal to Ikko Kurosaki on the pitcher's mound.
While testing his ball-handling ability, does he also need to deceive the batter?
Kurosaki looked at the ball sleeve that was close to the lower edge of the inside corner of the catcher's seat, took a deep breath, stepped forward, swung his arm, and threw the baseball out of his palm.
"Bang!"
“nice pitch.“
It was stuck on the edge of the strike zone, and there were some low pitches that the batter chose to let go, allowing the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound to pass through the home plate smoothly. Who knew that Director Kataoka had better control of Kurosaki Kazdaka?
ball ability, relax the criteria for judging, and judge the ball as a good ball.
snort!
The batter swung the bat in frustration and took up his position on the batter's box again.
Naoya Kuraza stood up and took out a baseball from his glove and passed it to the pitcher Kurosaki Kazdaka. After squatting down again, he banged the glove, gave the signal and set up the glove.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Ping!"
Even if the ball path was low, the batter chose to swing the metal bat in his hand and successfully hit the ball flying from the pitcher's mound, causing it to fly backwards quickly.
"The outside world!"
The baseball flying from the pitcher's mound was swept out of the third base line by the senior team.
"call out!"
"Lie!"
"Ping!"
"Left field!" Naoya Kuraza stood up immediately and shouted loudly.
Shortstop Hiroshi Kuramochi ran behind him, but the baseball that flew backwards from home plate hit the infield ground before him, and then bounced into left field.
"Kurosaki, there are still two final outs. We are not seeking to strike out the seniors, as long as they show their own level." Naoya Kuraza asked for a timeout from Director Kataoka and immediately ran to
On the pitcher's mound, he said to pitcher Kurosaki Kazdaka.
Seeing Kurosaki Ikko nodding towards him, Kuraza Naoya turned around and returned to home base.
Jun Isashiki walked up to the batter's box waving his bat. He first bowed to Director Kataoka, then turned to Kazuki Kurosaki on the pitcher's mound and shouted, "Come on! Watch me hit your pitch."
!”
"call out!"
"Lie"
"Ping!"
Just as Isashiki Jun said, the baseball flying from the pitcher's mound was directly hit by him.
Naoya Kuraza watched the baseball flying further and further away after being hit by the batter. He stood up and shouted in vain, "Right field, center field!"
Unfortunately, the baseball that was hit by the batter only started to lose height when it was about to fly to the center field fence, and then hit the ground in the center field.
An RBI double.
Naoya Kuraza returned from the pitcher's mound and crouched down behind home plate again, thumped his ball sleeve, and then got serious.
Naoya Kuraza gave a signal to the pitcher Kurosaki and squatted down. He stretched out his ball sleeve to catch the baseball thrown by Kurosaki Kazuya. Then he stood up immediately, took out the baseball from the ball cover and prepared to hit the second base.
The act of passing the ball...
Upon seeing this, Jun Isashiki hurriedly jumped back to second base, stood up, patted the dust on his body, straightened his ball cap, and stood a few steps away from the base bag again.
Naoya Kuraza threw the baseball back to the pitcher, squatted down again and signaled: Kurosaki, let's end this game together! This chapter has been completed!