Seeing the water outlet in the attack area lowering the bat and running to step on the first base bag, Takashi Nishino took out the ball and wiped it on his pants, and passed it to Takashi Iwada as if nothing had happened.

In the second half of the nine innings, the pioneer of Starfish High School successfully got out of the base, and no one was out of the first base.

"well done!"

The starfish's supervision applauded off the court to encourage his players.

He sent the water outlet to play for the first base and found out the pitching status of the White Mountain pitcher.

"Kawase, come here."

"Wait a minute, remember when you choose the ball..."

"Yeah, I understand, supervise."

When the game was suspended and the strike protective gear was taken, Haixing's supervisor seized the time to remind Kawase who had the next shot, so that he could aim at a sure ball when he was hit.

Kawase is the eighth bat. He moved to the pitching position in the second half of the game and his attack level is not bad, but the team played too much, so he can only be in the back.

After the hitter walked to the strike zone, a radio rang out on the court at the right time.

"Baoba, pitcher, Kawase-kun."

At the same time, Takayama, the live broadcast commentator, also analyzed the situation of the competition.

"In the second half of the nine games, Baishan High School was 6-3, and the last three outs were left to the final of this triple conference."

"No one was out of first base, and Starfish High School is constantly looking for opportunities to equalize the score, and it seems that they will fight until the last moment."

"So far, the pitcher of Shiratsuyama High School, Iwata has made 136 goals, with a maximum speed of 137km and a 3-pointer in the ERA."

"Overall, the Iwata player's performance is still quite good, and it's not a big problem after the nine innings."

Because there are people at first base now, Shirashan's first baseman, Mori Shion, approached the past baseball, and together with Takashi Iwada, he restrained the runners several times.

When dealing with runners who are good at stealing bases, Tetsu Nishino sometimes fails to match, and he was successfully stolen from the bases several times in summer.

Therefore, the constraint between the pitcher and the first baseman is very important. After suppressing the ready-to-go runners, Tetsuya Nishino and Takuchi Iwada can concentrate on dealing with the hitters.

"The runner doesn't seem to want to steal the base."

When Takashi Nishino saw the runner's distance, he felt uneasy inexplicably uneasy.

Now they are leading by 3 points in the second half of the nine innings, and Starfish should be very anxious. The willingness to steal the base will be much stronger than before.

But judging from the runners' closer to the base, it is obvious that they are not really trying to steal the base, they are just trying to interfere with their arrest.

Although Tetsu Nishino is very confident in his pass, he cannot stop the killing every time. Moreover, Tetsu Nishino and his team were also stolen to the second base in this game, and Starfish would not dare to steal the base because of their garrison.

The only reason is that they are unwilling to take the risk of wasting outs.

In other words, compared to risky stolen bases, the starfish players trust their teammates' strikes more, even if it's the turn of the back.

“PalyBall!”

The referee signaled to start pitching, and Nishino and the others had no time to worry too much, so they had to shoot the first goal.

call out!

The baseball flew towards the home plate area, and the ball path seemed to be relatively high and straight, so there shouldn't be too many changes.

Swish-

Starfish's Hayako Kawase swung the bat hard towards the coming ball, but his strong sense of swinging made him almost unable to stabilize his body's center of gravity. He jumped a small step before he stood in the strike zone.

"Ah... it's a slider!"

Kawase raised his hand and patted his jersey, said intimately, then raised the bat and stared at Takashi Iwada with a fierce look.

The first ball, Takashi Iwada, threw a high-level longitudinal slide ball. The fine adjustment of the finger grip method made the ball fall less and looked more like a straight ball.

If this ball is hit, it is better than a straight ball, but Kawase swept the bat along the way with a straight ball at a high position, and the time to swing it out was too early to cause the empty swing.

But no matter what, the ball caught an empty swing and got 1 good goal.

"1 is just a good ball!"

"It's just a good ball."

Kawase and Tetsu Nishino thought to themselves at the same time.

"The slide ball on the high ball path can easily fall into the good ball area, and the hitters should care."

With this idea in mind, Takashi Nishino's second ball was matched with a low-post slide.

The first reason why the slider has always been mainly used is that the starfish hitter is waiting for the straight ball to be shot in, and the second reason is that it is more beneficial to the right hitter to use the slider.

The third reason is that Takashi Iwada has more confidence in sliding balls.

As for which reason is more important, different catchers have different considerations.

On the pitcher mound, Takachi Iwada threw the ball in accordance with Tetsu Nishino's secret code. The ball entered the air above the home base and was caught by Tetsu Nishino.

"Bang!"

"Bad ball!"

Tetsu Nishino's position of receiving the ball is already relatively low, and the referee is naturally accurate and confident in the judgment of the base point.

The ball was in the low post, and the hitter Kawase watched the ball throughout the whole process, and the number of balls reached 1 bad and 1 good.

Tetsu Nishino passed the ball back to Takashi Iwada and thought about the next goal.

"Straight ball...or change ball?"

After the second half of the game, Takashi Iwada seemed to have been shooting a low-post change ball, but he can't blame him. It's difficult to shoot a low-post change ball.

Takachi Iwada, who made nine innings, did his pitching condition decline.

1 bad ball 1 good ball. If you want to grab two good balls, you have to throw the ball into the good ball area. Kawase on the attack area also knows this and raises the bat and waits.

"Go in and fight!"

In the second half of the nine games, you must choose the ball carefully and not miss the opportunity to swing the baton. Kawase's pressure was unprecedentedly high. Moreover, the second round of the baton was not favored at all.

"Kawase!"

"Come on!"

"Play one!"

"Go out well!"

"Kawase, hit the hit!"

"One give! One gives! One gives!"

At the rest seat and support stands of Haixing High School, everyone was working hard to cheer for the players on the court. Gradually, local audiences who originally felt hopeless about the game also joined the support.

"Come on!"

"Call out!"

"One give! One gives!"

No matter what, Haixing is all the teams in his hometown, and most of the audience still hope to reach the finals.

At this time, the home plate area.

Squatting on the catcher's mat in a straight position, Takashi Nishino stretched out four fingers between his legs with his right hand, but it was not the meaning of the No. 4 ball.

"The beginning position!"

“Longitary slide!”

This time, Tetsu Nishino played three consecutive goals, and the positions were all sliding balls, with high and low positions, but they were not worthy of straight balls for Haixing and the others.

Because Tetsu Nishino was worried that Takashi Iwada's straight ball would be shot out, he always focused on changing balls.

They let the hitter swing the ball at the high position of the first ball. Then this time, after watching a low position, the hitter may not swing the baton, or pulling the high and low spaces will make the hitter unable to find the hitter for a while.

"High slide? Well."

Takashi Iwada had no objection, so he glanced at the first base runner and turned around to throw the ball.

Swish-

The baseball attacked over a short distance. Takashi Nishino raised his shoulder and reached out. He opened his gloves and wanted to catch the ball, but the swinged bat was ahead.

"Clang!"

As soon as the ball was shot, Kawase pulled the ball backward. After seeing the ball path, he suddenly waved it with his waist as the axis. While swinging the ball, he naturally tilted his upper body slightly towards the home plate.

The baseball was pulled up slightly and swept across, flying to the left outfield direction!

"Um?!!!"

Takashi Nishino looked to the left quickly.

The ball flying in mid-air was fast and strong. Baishan's left outfielder Ito Nao ran over, still watching the ball hit the wall and landed to form a far-reaching hit.

"Yosa————!!!"

When the ball landed, Kawase roared excitedly, and took advantage of this opportunity to take big steps to advance the base bag.

"Send it back quickly!"

Baishan's wild players were anxious, but they could not stop their opponents.

"Da da da da!"

The two rushed to the second and third bases in one breath, stepped on the base bag and clapped, shouting the slogan of counterattacking in the second half of the nine innings.

"No one was out of second and third bases!!!"
Chapter completed!