In the second half of the ninth inning, Seiryo High School's offense will start with ninth catcher Shinnosuke Yamase.

The live broadcast commentator explained the game situation on the field, and also talked about the Xingling players to exaggerate the atmosphere of the last game.

For example, let’s take the story of Okukawa Kyoshinobu and Yamase Shinnosuke’s arrest.

Kyoushin Okugawa and Shinnosuke Yamase have been playing baseball together as a team since elementary school. In middle school, they were the core and led the team to win the first place in Japan. Then they agreed to become the first team in Japan in high school.

Now in the Xia League finals, they are very close to their original dream, but unfortunately they are blocked by Hakusan High School, which is 2 points ahead.

If they cannot tie or overtake in the second half of the ninth inning, their third graders will say goodbye to high school baseball with regret.

At other times, these would have been stories that fans would talk about after dinner, but now they have become a motivator for Xingling players to rise up.

At this time, the Xingling players were in a mixed nervous and excited mood, and the upper and lower limits of their strength were very unstable. This was the troublesome part of the defense in the last game.

Baseball is a round-based game, and each half-inning can be regarded as a separate game. The outcome is often overturned in one round.

Hakusan High School, which leads 6-4, is not resting easy. The disadvantage of attacking first and then defending is that it may become the backdrop for a bye hit.

Before the start of the half game, Zhang Zhe prepared meticulously and reminded his teammates to concentrate on the court.

"Kazuya!"

"Konda!"

"Dashi!"

"Junior High School!"

"Tamura!"

"Kimura!"

"Ibo!"

"Komata!"

Zhang Zhe, as the captain, called the names of everyone on the field.

He spread his arms, his body language was louder than usual, and he used clear actions to tell his teammates his determination to maintain victory.

Afterwards, Zhang Zhe walked onto the pitcher's mound and handed the baseball to Kazuya Nishino.

Nishino Kazuya looked at each other and said seriously: "Azhe, believe me!"

"Well, I leave it to you!"

The brief dialogue conveys the thoughts of the prisoner.

Thanks to Zhang Zhe's careful pitching and the active batting of the Xinglin batter, Nishino Kazuya's pitch count has just reached 100, and he has no problem handling the pitching in the second half of the ninth inning.

Zhang Zhe returned to the catcher's area.

The announcement sounded in the stadium.

""In the second half of the ninth inning, Seiryo High School's offense, the batter who comes on is, Ku-bat, catcher, Yamaze-kun! Ku-bat, catcher, Yamaze-kun!"

Shinnosuke Yamase is a right-handed hitter and entered the strike zone in front of the left side of the catcher's box.

Zhang Zhe looked at him carefully.

Shinnosuke Yamase, who is a little over 1.7 meters tall, has a stocky figure. Perhaps because he is a catcher, his hitting type is mostly skill-based hitting. He has accumulated a batting average of 50% in this tournament.

The reason why he was ranked in the ninth battalion may be to reduce the burden and connect the upper and lower lines.

Shinnosuke Yamase, the infielder at the front of the final, had a hit before and was familiar with how to hit Kazuya Nishino's pitching.

On the first ball, Zhang Zhe played low in the outside corner, allowing Kazuya to throw a straight ball in to grab the ball.

Nishino Kazuya understood this and slightly lowered the ball speed to ensure control of the ball, and tried to throw into tricky positions.

"Snapped!"

"nice shot!"

The first ball was a strike.

Then Zhang Zhe began to give some pitches that squeezed the batter's swing space.

The second ball was a slider near the low inside corner, and the third ball was a straight ball near the high inside corner. Shinnosuke Yamase didn't hit the ball and let the ball fall into the foul zone.

Zhang Zhe was surprised by Yamaze Shinnosuke's calmness.

The shouts of "hit it" and "hit it out" came from the dugout at the third base. I am afraid that at this time, there are only a few Xingling players who are more rational than emotional.

The next pitch by Zhang Zhe was in the strike zone.

"Slider ball!"

“The inner corner is low!”

Zhang Zhe plans to continue to compress Yamase Shinnosuke's swing space, tempting him to swing short or create a soft ground ball.

Kazuya Nishino throws the ball.

As soon as the baseball was released, it first flew toward the outside, then slid down sharply before the home plate, and fell into the low inside corner of the right-hand batter's space.

However, the end of the ball does not move inward enough, or the ball is released a little outside.

All in all, the baseball flies to an area where the batter can effectively attack, even though the batter's swing space is still limited.

Shinnosuke Yamase swung the bat, and the movement was very large, hitting the lower edge of the ball hard.

"Qiang!"

The part where the ball is hit is too low, and the direction of the ball's motion has been changed before the kinetic energy of the rod body can be fully transmitted.

Zhang Zhe stood up and looked behind home plate.

The ball hit the center stand barrier.

"The outside world!"

The referee took out a clean baseball and handed it to Zhang Zhe.

Shinnosuke Yamase is six to seven centimeters shorter than Zhang Zhe, but his weight is about the same, or even a little heavier, at 85 kilograms.

Judging from the swing just now, Yamase Shinnosuke's swing is strong. Clever hitting is mostly a choice of playing style, and he may not be unable to hit a home run at critical times.

"The last game is going to be troublesome." Zhang Zhe thought to himself.

At the end of the game, some people's status will be stimulated, and the play style that usually has a low success rate will suddenly become extremely threatening.

Zhang Zhe glanced sideways at Shinnosuke Yamase in front of him on the left, and found that he was always staring straight at Kazuya Nishino on the pitcher's mound, as if there was a fire in his eyes.

On the one hand, Shinnosuke Yamase is calm in his ball selection, but on the other hand, he is fierce in his batting. His batting average is as high as 50%, and he may be in a state of high concentration.

Zhang Zhe's matchmaking is not always tough, sometimes he also has a soft side.

Now there are 2 bad goals and 2 good goals. It is time to bring more factors into the game.

The idea was to hit the boundary of the umpire's strike zone.

Most of the time, Zhang Zhe uses a flexible ball-catching method, that is, the gloves are not completely fixed before catching the ball, and the entire body moves in conjunction with the ball when catching the ball, so that the movement of the glove that catches the ball is small relative to the body.

The advantage is that it is not obvious to pull the ball, but the disadvantage is that it is more difficult.

Zhang Zhe gave a signal to Kazuya and asked him to aim for the edge of the strike zone and pitch.

Without saying a word, Kazuya Nishino immediately hit a straight ball that hit the right-hander and hit the outside corner.

Viewed from the right strike zone, the ball's flight path is on the outside, flying from right to left, with an unexpected lateral movement.

Since it can be seen that it is a four-seam fastball, the amount of lateral movement is only a little, which should not be enough to enter the strike zone.

Yamase Shinnosuke thought it was a bad ball, so he immediately stopped his action and took back the bat that was almost halfway out.

The ball flew over home plate and headed toward the catcher's box.

At this time, Zhang Zhicai stretched his left hand forward, opened his glove to catch the incoming ball, and at the same time, his body quietly and naturally leaned toward the strike zone.

"Snapped!"

The whole movement is very smooth and natural, much less noticeable than the hasty movement of the batter closing the bat.

From the referee's perspective, this was a tricky straight ball from the outside corner.

So the presiding judge pulled his arm and shouted the final verdict.

"nice shot!!!"

"Strikeout!!!"
Chapter completed!