The confirmed result of the game could not be changed, and Yamase Shinnosuke had no choice but to regret it.

Seeing that their captain was eliminated, the supporters of Xingling High School were anxious and shouted even harder.

"Xing Ling, come on!!"

"Xing Ling, come on!!"

"Xing Leng, come on!!!"

The voice from the support stands on the third base side is still loud, but what cannot be changed is that every out number means that Xingling High School is one step closer to losing the championship.

In the first-base support stand, Hakusan High School supporters clasped their hands or clenched their fists, praying for Hakusan to hold on to the lead.

At this moment, from Hokkaido to Ryukyu, from Fukuoka to Aomori, from Hyogo to Mie, many people are silently chanting the same sentence.

"Baishan, hold on!!!!"

Relatively speaking, the experience of the Hakusan High School Baseball Club is more sympathetic to ordinary people.

Of course, White Mountain's high support across the country is also closely related to the vigorous publicity by the media, which echoes the needs of the majority of fans who hope to inject new power into high school baseball.

Summer Koshien has been won by private schools for 11 consecutive years, but public schools, which account for 70% of the total number of high school baseball participating schools, are finding it increasingly difficult to even enter the top eight.

Just when people accepted the complete decline of public schools, two new trends blew into Koshien.

First it was Jinzu Nong, then Baishan.

Their appearance shocked fans across the country.

People gathered in front of the TV one after another, with tears in their eyes, lamenting that they had worked hard for their dreams just like them when they were young.

Inside the venue.

The tense competition continues.

""One bat, center fielder, Donghai Linjun.""

""One bat, center fielder, Donghai Linjun.""

The second batter in this half-inning was third-year player Tokai Lin Hangsuke. His batting average was as high as 40%, and he had three hits in the first four at-bats of the game.

Kosuke Tokai Hayashi, who served as the leadoff batter in the first pitch, went out three times and only returned to home plate once, indicating that the crux of Seiryo's low offensive efficiency in this game was not him.

Looking at the entire game, Tokai Lin Hangsuke's subsequent two and three hitters had only one hit in total, and the connection of the upper line was very unsmooth.

There are two reasons.

First, Xing Leng supervised the rescheduling of the finals, broke up the previous one-two bat team, and replaced another player to temporarily play the second bat.

The second is that Baishan consciously targets the following batter when there is someone on base.

In the catcher's box, Zhang Zhe turned his head slightly, squinted his eyes, and secretly observed Donghai Lin Hangsuke on the left strike zone.

"He's laughing too."

Despite the current unfavorable situation, Donghai Lin Hangjie still managed to smile.

Each and every one of the Seiryo players could laugh even though they were about to lose the game. People who don't know the Seiryo High School Baseball Club might not understand their behavior.

The team training of "Must Smile" once helped Xing Leng make a comeback at the last moment of the game. They always believed that playing with a smile on their faces would bring them good luck.

Zhang Zhe scrutinized every move of the people on the field.

Especially Kazuya Nishino on the pitcher's mound. If he has an emotional change due to the behavior of a batter, Zhang Zhe will go up and have a chat with him.

Fortunately, Kazuya is still focused on pitching, and interference on and off the court has little impact on him.

Because Tokai Lin Hangsuke is a left-handed hitter, Zhang Zhe's idea of ​​​​distributing the ball is to go outside and place the ball at the junction of the outer corner of the strike zone and the strike zone.

On the first ball, Zhang Zhe planned to get a good number of balls first.

A straight ball came in low from the outside corner.

"Qiang!"

Kosuke Tokai Lin swung the bat and hit the ball into the stands on the third base side.

"Out of bounds!"

Zhang Zhe judged from Donghai Lin Hangjie's actions and reactions that hitting the foul ball was not his original intention, and this position was his weak area.

So Zhang Zhe gave a high ball that took away his attention.

"Crack!"

"Bad ball!"

After the batter's attention was drawn to the inside corner, Zhang Zhe once again went low in the outside corner, and cooperated tacitly with Kazuya to get the second strike.

After these 3 goals, 1 is bad and 2 are good.

The ability to read the game is crucial for a catcher.

When to be strong, when to dodge, and when to be steady, you need to know clearly.

In the bottom half of the ninth inning, with one out and no one on base, and the number of pitches and catches leading, from the perspective of a supporter of White Mountain High School, it is natural to hope that the duel will be played as soon as possible to avoid prolongation and another accident.

But Zhang Zhe and Nishino Kazuya became extra cautious.

The fourth ball is a bad ball that falls outside.

The number of goals came to 2 bad goals and 2 good goals.

The ball just now did not deceive the batter, and Zhang Zhe is not discouraged. The initiative is in his own hands, and there will always be a ball that the batter has to fall for.

It is still the idea of ​​​​matching the ball from the outside corner to decide the victory.

"Slider ball!"

"Outer corner low!"

Kazuya Nishino read the code, blinked, nodded slightly, showed no objection, then made a throwing motion and released the ball.

The ball flew over.

Because the purpose is to lure the batter into a swing, the ball's entry point is outside the strike zone.

In the left batting area, Donghai Lin Hang moved. Maybe he misjudged the path of the ball, but in the end he seemed to see it clearly and suddenly stopped his movement of the bat.

"Crack!"

Zhang Zhe received the ball and immediately looked towards the third base judge.

If the third base judge determines that the bat is over, the batter will be struck out to score the second out.

Unfortunately, the third base umpire raised his hands to indicate that the batter was safe.

"Ouch!!!" the Koshien stands roared.

This ball was ruled a bad ball, which means an exciting 3 bad and 2 good results.

The enthusiastic atmosphere in the audience led almost everyone to believe that the next pitch would definitely be in the strike zone.

Zhang Zhe did the opposite.

"The matchmaking remains unchanged!"

Continue to use low balls in the outside corner to lure batters into swinging.

Taking the risk of four bad balls, Zhang Zhe was sure that Donghai Lin Hangjie would hit.

On the pitcher's mound, Kazuya Nishino read the code, nodded solemnly, adjusted his breathing, swung his arm along with the pitching motion, and pushed the ball forward.

In an instant, the baseball flew off the pitcher's mound.

The line of this ball was excellent, and it went straight like a pitch in the inside corner. It moved sharply to the left as it approached home plate, and escaped from the strike zone by the side of the swinging bat.

Donghai Lin Hangsuke's swing was damaged, he hunched over and stretched out his hand to reach with the bat.

Zhang Zhe reached forward with his left hand and firmly grasped it.

"Crack!"

The glove vibrated and the baseball hit.

The chief umpire witnessed the whole process that happened in the home plate area, straightened his body, raised his right fist in front of his chest, and showed the result of the batter's out to the public.

"Empty wave!!!"

"Strikeout!!!"

"Batter is out!!!"

The Koshien Stadium instantly erupted.

Under the eyes of more than 40,000 people in the audience, Bai Shan struck out Xing Leng's batters again, forcing Xing Ling to a desperate situation on the verge of defeat.

"Two out!!"

"Only the last out number left!"

At this moment, many people's heartbeats suddenly accelerated, and the sound of vigorous heartbeats came out with a real feeling that the last moment was really coming!

The second half of the ninth inning!

Two out!
Chapter completed!