"Eh? Could it be that Zhesang, have you thought of any offensive tactics again?"

Tamura Naohiko asked expectantly.

In the first half of the seventh inning, he was the first batter of the first-year team, and he was worrying about how to break through the pressure of his seniors. It would be great if Tetsu Nishino could give some hitting suggestions now.

"Well, that's not true." Nishino Tetsuo shook his head.

He is not a professional baseball tactics coach, so how could he know so many hitting tactics?

"I saw that everyone's morale was a bit low, so I thought of a "special" way to win."

"Win?"

"How is that possible?"

"Really or not?"

Tamura Naohiko and others had question marks on their faces after hearing Nishino Tetsu's words.

The team that is currently behind by a big margin as shown on the scoreboard is probably them, and their attack has been completely suppressed. How can they come back from this situation? I'm kidding.

In fact, their guess was right, Tetsu Nishino was indeed joking.

"Well, think about it, everyone, didn't we anticipate falling behind before the game?"

"At that time, everyone will probably lose more than 20 points."

"Now the game has only lost 7 points in total after six games, which is far better than our expectations."

Tetsu Nishino explained.

"this......"

At first glance, it sounds like he is trying to justify losing.

Think about it carefully.

It seems that they somehow regarded their seniors as equal opponents and devoted themselves to the game, so they were very concerned about losing points.

But this red-white war itself is a game where the seniors "bully" their juniors. The strength gap between the two is obvious, and it is not easy to survive until now.

"Well..."

Although it feels like it is wrong, my mood is inexplicably much better.

Well, we actually didn't play too badly. Although we didn't make any achievements in attack, our defense was okay. At least we didn't lose double-digit points.

Konda Shogo reacted and said tentatively: "What Tetsu-san means is that if you lose less, you will win?"

"That's right." Tetsu Nishino confirmed what Konda Shogo said.

Considering the strength of the two teams, Tetsu Nishino imagined three scenarios before the game.

The first situation is when the first-grade team succeeds in a sneak attack, successfully defends the score, and wins the game by luck.

The second situation is that they defend with all their strength and control the points lost to single digits, or try to lose as few points as possible.

The third situation is that they have no intention of resisting at all, they give up attacking and defending, and the red and white battle is just a formality.

Now it seems that the chance of the first-year team winning the game by chance is slim, but they can still try to lose less points and show their first-year determination in front of the seniors.

"Let's do this," Tetsu Nishino suggested. "As long as the difference between us and our seniors is within 10 points at the end of the game, we can force ourselves to win. How about that?"

There are still three rounds left in the game, and at least we can still play in the last round. It is not easy to control the difference to 10 points.

However, after suddenly having an extra target, Shogo Konda and the others felt that the game was still worth winning.

After a break.

The senior team has undergone personnel changes.

Pitcher Sakuya Yamamoto was replaced and vice-captain Gochi Iwata pitched.

Originally, the first-year team's hitters played two rounds of Yamamoto Sakuya-senpai's balls, and they were almost able to follow the path of the ball. The chance of hitting a hit later was much greater.

After Iwata Gochi came up, Tamura Naohiko and others had to adapt to the pitcher's pitch again, and they were quickly defeated.

First, Naohiko Tamura hit a fly ball to the outfield and was caught. Then Reita Oishi hit a fly ball and was caught by the shortstop. Then, Tata Iba was struck out by a slider.

Three up and three down.

The second half of the inning was another defensive effort by the first grade team.

Before going on defense, everyone on the first-grade team once again formed a circle.

"There are three innings left and 9 outs. If we stick to it we will win!"

"Uh-huh!"

"A real man!"

"Come on!"

After encouraging each other, the players of the first-year team quickly entered the defensive position, and everyone was secretly determined to defend this game with all their strength.

The game came to the bottom of the seventh inning, and the senior team's offense started. The first batter was nine-bat pitcher Gochi Iwata.

With the morale boosted, the first-year team's defensive quality was obviously much better.

After 2 bad balls and 2 good balls.

"Qiang!"

Gochi Iwata hit a ball that floated high and was caught by the left fielder.

One out.

The second batter, Shogo Kuriyama, hit the slider and hit a ground ball toward first base. First baseman Shogo Konda intercepted the ball and lightly stepped on the base bag.

Two out.

Facing the situation of two outs and no one on base, the third batter Kyotaro Ichikawa didn't have many options. After 2 balls and 1 strike, Ichikawa Kyotaro hit the inside corner. As a result, the ball flew towards third base and was hit by the third base.

The base runner catches it, forming a catch.

Three outs, offense and defense exchange.

"Nice pitch!"

Tetsu Nishino shouted to Tatsumi Teruaki who was walking down.

Tatsuki Teruaki, who came up from the relay, quickly got into the state and smoothly solved the senior team's lower-position line without causing the senior team's line to be connected.

"Um!"

Nodding, Teruaki Tatsuki was also very happy that he could help the team.

Returning to the dugout, Tetsu Nishino took the water handed to him by his teammates and took a long sip to moisten his thirsty throat.

Unconsciously, the game has reached the eighth inning, and the score is 1:7. The first-grade team is lagging behind significantly, but in just a few rounds, the performance of the first-grade team is not as bad as expected.

When the game came to the end, it was as if the clockwork had been wound up again, and the pace accelerated in vain.

In the first half of the eighth inning, the first grade team's offense.

Gochi Iwata, who is also a reliever, is also in very good pitching condition.

Gochi Iwata used an inside angle straight ball to suppress the first-year team's fifth-base bat Shogo Konda, allowing him to hit the ball into a ground ball between second and third base. Shortstop Kenjiro Ishida jumped forward to stop the ball, quickly got up and passed it directly to first base, blocking the ball.

Dropped near Tian Xiangwu.

Immediately afterwards.

The first-year team's sixth and seventh at bats were caught by a right field fly ball and an infield fly ball respectively, and they were eliminated cleanly.

A rock solid defense.

Once again, three on and three out, the batter had no chance to get on base.

On the scoreboard, the column for the first-year team has a 1 under the first game, followed by a series of 0s.

The seniors suppressed them until they had only one hit, and even gave them three ups and three downs in a row, which made them understand the strength of high school baseball and deeply feel their own shortcomings.

Sure enough, is it still too difficult to become an instant combat power?

Nishino Tetsu thought sadly when he saw this situation.

However, the game is not over yet, there are still two rounds left, so at least you have to persevere!

Reminding himself over and over again, Tetsu Nishino put on his catcher's helmet again and called his teammates to field.

"Daddy!"

"Two rounds left!"

"Only 6 outs left!"

"Don't forget that we also got the number of outs from our seniors at the beginning!"

The teammates were also inspired by the belief in Nishino Tetsu's shouts. The senior team gave them a series of three ups and three downs, and they also responded with many three ups and three downs.

So what if it's the turn of three, four or five?
Chapter completed!