With the score of "Baishan 4-1 Xiao", this semi-finals entered the second half of the fourth inning, and Xiaogao's offensive half of the game.

On the pitcher mound, Tetsuo Nishino and Shuoya Yamamoto stood face to face, both of whom covered their mouths with gloves.

"Senior Yamamoto, I plan to add more change balls in this game, is it OK?"

"Yes, that's OK."

Yamamoto Sakuya said gently, he knew what Tetsu Nishino was worried about.

For pitchers in high school, it is best not to shoot too many different balls in the game. Try to shoot straight balls as much as possible if they can shoot straight balls, otherwise their future development will not be favored.

In Nishino Tetsuya's mind, requiring pitchers to focus on changing balls is a very excessive requirement. To be serious, this is consuming the pitcher's pitching career.

"Xiaozhe, it's okay, I won't take the baseball path."

"Um……"

Tetsu Nishino nodded and walked back to the catcher's seat.

After squatting down, Tetsu Nishino pulled down the catcher's mask and kept convinced himself in his heart that this is the reality of high school baseball.

There are very few high school players who can continue to follow the baseball path every year, and most of them return to the lives of ordinary people.

So players like Yamamoto Shuoya and Akatsuki Sugiyama don’t care whether their arms will be over-expended. What they care most about is the team.

If the team needs it, they can keep throwing it.

Of course, players with professional purpose are different. These players hope to enter Jiaziyuan to dominate the whole country and will also protect their bodies well.

I can only say that the two have different choices and there is no right or wrong.

In the second half of the four innings, Akagao's first hitter was their six sticks. Yamamoto Shuoya used a change ball to get entangled with him to the full ball.

2 is good and 3 is bad.

Among them are 4 curve balls and 1 speed ball.

The ball path is from low to high in the outer corner, and then from high in the inner corner to low in the outer corner. In short, the hitter cannot catch the ball path at once and grind the hitter back and forth.

Next goal.

Yamamoto Shuoya threw a straight ball, but it was still in the good ball area, but Akatsuki's six sticks were just not good.

"Clang!"

The ball flew into the middle and outfield.

Shirayama's backbone, Kyotaro Ichikawa, ran up and blocked the ball forward into his gloves, steadily caught the ball.

"Exit!"

Once out, the hitter was Xiaogao's seven-stick.

This time, Tetsu Nishino was mainly a speed ball. When he came to the 1-bad and 2-bad chasing the hitter, Akagao's seven sticks were almost about to catch the hitting rhythm of the speed ball.

The next goal is a straight ball at a high position.

"Clang!"

The hit baseball flew out high and attacked towards the left field.

Ito Nao, who was guarding the position very deeply, quickly moved to the bottom of the ball's landing point, then jumped up and caught the ball without letting the ball land.

"Exit!"

After two outs, facing Akagao's eight sticks, Yamamoto Shuoya and Nishino Tetsuya can be much more relaxed.

Curved ball, straight ball, variable speed ball.

Each of the three balls came up was different. Xiaogao's eight sticks were not sure, and he was pulled out of bounds until he hit.

1 bad 2 good hitters are chased.

The next goal, Tetsu Nishino, has not matched the straight ball in the ball area. It's okay if it's like this three times in a row, it's very likely that it will be guessed.

so.

call out!

Outer longitudinal slide!

In the good ball area, Xiaogao's eight sticks didn't want to be struck out, so he could only barely hit the ball.

"Clang!"

Attack the ball!

At the edge of the infield, almost to the outfield, second baseman Yuichiro Kajikawa pressed the attack ball to the ground, and immediately picked it up and passed it to the first baseman Arimori Shin-yoon who was going back to step on the base.

"Bang!"

The ball fell steadily into the glove.

"Exit!"

"Three out!"

"Off and defense exchange!"

In the second half of the four innings, Yamamoto Shuoya, who was in a good state of pitching, got a three-up and three-down, and the no-hit and no-runner ended the half-inning.

The game suddenly entered the fifth inning.

"The first half of the five innings, Shirashan High School's offense. The hitters who are playing now are four basemen, third basemen, Tsujikun."

Before the pitching began, Akagao's catcher Sugawara went up to the pitcher hill and discussed with Ace Sugiyama. This time it was Shiraga's turn to hit hard, and their situation was very serious.

"Sumarama, your hand is fine, can you still throw it?"

"Yeah, I can."

"Really, then okay, I will try my best to guide the hitter to fight."

Sugiyama nodded in response to him with a smile, saying that his pitching condition was completely fine.

In fact, even if his elbow was applied with anti-inflammatory and analgesic medication before, he still had mild pain when pitching.

"The time for persistence will pass soon."

After the catcher Sugawara went down, Sugiyama said to himself secretly. He would consider taking a good rest after returning to this game.

First ball.

The finger-fork ball dropped outside the good ball area and Hiroki Tsuji in the strike zone put it over.

However, Hiroki Tsuji couldn't help but shoot the straight ball in the second ball, and the ball was much heavier than he thought. The ball he hit was blocked by Akagao's second baseman and was blocked by the first base.

Once eliminated.

The subsequent five-player Ito and six-player Komata Meteor were defended by Akaga's fielders, and both of them were eliminated.

"Three out!"

"Off and defense exchange!"

In the first half of the fifth game, Bai Shan was once again taken three times.

In the rest seat in Baishan, Takashi Nishino became vaguely worried when he saw this game situation.

Xiaogao Ace Sugishan's method of throwing seems to be very restrained by Baishan's line-up.

Because from the second game, Sugiyama has made three consecutive shots, and has used quite a few balls.

Taking the first half of the five games just now as an example, the three hitters used the ball, 2 goals, and 3 goals, and only 7 goals were spent in total.

Perhaps Sugiyama's pitching was not as fast as the Ace pitcher of the Wild Ace. The ball was striking out quickly, but it looked easier to play.

But that's it. Xiaogao used a very small number of balls to continuously eliminate Baishan's hitters.

"Maybe it's because everyone hasn't adapted yet."

Takashi Nishino thought.

When he faced Sugiyama's ball on the table, he couldn't help but take action, which shows that Sugiyama's pitching looks like an easy-to-play ball.

But when they really hit the ball, as long as they don’t fully grasp the right part, they will be suppressed and the balls they hit will be intercepted.

Bai Shan also encountered the situation of the three rounds of the line and finally survived it.

So although this game has gradually become suppressed, the players in Baishan are still very confident, after all, they are the ones who lead.

Although the score of 4-1 is not a sure win, Baishan has not lost more than 3 points in this summer's game, so everyone's mentality is still relatively relaxed.

Play whatever you want to play.

Because I have to go to the court to practice shooting and passing and receiving, some people have almost no time to rest. They just return to the rest seat and go to the garage.

call out!

"Bang!"

Tetsuo Nishino caught Yamamoto Shuoya's test pitch and passed the ball back up.
Chapter completed!