Diamond Ace: Another Story of Sawamura

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"Hit! Hit! Didong!"

"Come on! Come on! Didong!"

Standing in the batter's box once again, Qian looked directly at the pitcher on the mound with Xiao Su as if he was about to face life and death.

"..." That focused look made Jōgōu's expression stiffen, and he clearly felt a sense of oppression.

"Easy balls will be hit! Come on!" At this moment, Miyuki at home plate also had a gleam in his eyes and put his glove high in the inside corner.

"call out!"

Without any hesitation, Furutani's ball flashed to the home plate almost instantly with a tearing sound.

"So fast!" Qian's pupils shrank sharply as the ball came, and he swung the bat in his hand based entirely on his feeling and experience.

"Qiang!"

"Snapped!"

The ball turned back at the same speed as when it came, hitting the ground in the direction of first base hard and passing over Yuki's glove.

"Foul ball!"

“……”Fūtani looked from first base to home plate in shock.

At this time, the speed barrier on the scoring wall clearly displayed the data of '154km/h'.

"Oh...Ooooohhh!"

“I actually hit the ball at 154km!”

"The fastest ball speed since the start of the game!"

"It's so fast no matter which way it goes!"

Whether it is the romance of the pitch speed or the passion of the swing, all of them are close to the limit that the audience pursues. They have even begun to imagine what they will look like when they continue to grow up.

For the second ball, Miyuki boldly hit the inside corner, "There's no way out now, throw it as hard as you can!"

"Qiang!"

"Foul ball!"

'Third ball, throw it to the outside corner!'

"Qiang!"

"!"

"Right field!"

Once again, the ball flew back, and this time it was a clear fair ball, landing behind the infield and heading straight to right field.

"Ah ah ah ah ah!"

The passionate screams resounded through the sky, like thunder in the ears...

"A well-timed hit to right field! The batter is on first base! It's a swing from the fourth batter!"

"Fouya!" Miyuki called out to Fouya who was looking at Qian, "Change your mood and focus on dealing with the batter!"

"Hmm..." Fūya nodded in response, no longer distracted by looking at the runners. His top priority today was to concentrate on dealing with the batters.

Once someone gets on base, Didong will try every means to advance the bases and not miss any opportunity to score.

So, hit the first ball!

"Qiang!"

"Pass to first base!"

Although this would allow Inui to advance to second base, Miyuki still chose the safer option of taking the batter out first and instructed senior Masuko to throw the ball to first base, at least this way it would be less likely to disrupt Furutani.

"One person is out!"

"One out!"

"Furiya! Let him fight!"

After Qian reached second base, Furutani came up completely, and it was clear that he didn't want anyone to get on base at all.

The momentum was that he struck out six and seven batters in a row in just six pitches.

It was clean and neat, without giving in at all, and made the audience exclaim in surprise once again.

"Jiang Gu! Good shot!"

"Okay! Falling Valley!"

Bathed in the cheers, Furuya only thought of one thing, "I really want to change out of my tights as soon as possible..."

Qingdao is out, Teidong is in...

"Tough... relying on strength..." Mukai ran onto the field and looked at Furiya with a hint of disdain in his eyes, "... what a mess!"

The two people are completely opposite, belonging to the soft and hard types respectively...

What Mukai pursues is to demonstrate his outstanding pitching skills in ball control and changeups, only then can he be called a pitcher.

Only by further developing your own characteristics and achieving ultimate all-round development can you become the true trump card of the team.

To him, pitching like this, which was purely based on brute force and without any control of the ball, was simply boring and not up to standard at all.

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In the bottom of the fourth inning, Seidou's batting lineup finally took a turn, and Kuramochi came up to bat again.

Before the ball count was full, Kuramochi seized the opportunity and hit a corner kick.

But the moment the ball bounced off the ground, it was caught by the third baseman's glove.

Kuramochi gritted his teeth and ran quickly, but the third baseman had already stood up and passed the ball to first base. It seemed that there were only a few steps left to the base, but Kuramochi felt that these steps were very far away.

"Snapped!"

"Whoa whoa!"

"Iron wall!"

"The time from standing up to passing the ball is so short!"

The beautiful defense aroused the audience's exclamations, while the reporters who were watching the game from another perspective were analyzing the current situation.

"Although we have been trying hard... but Seidou has not hit a hit so far..."

Ryosuke, who was in second place, hit all the difficult balls out of bounds without rushing to hit the low balls.

"Amazing!"

"Out of bounds again!"

"How many balls have you played?"

“Are there any people?”

After hitting an unknown number of balls, Ryosuke was misled by a spiral ball and hit out.

The first baseman raised his glove and caught the ball, easily knocking the batter out.

"Ah! Hit the front!"

"Pity!"

“Although I’ve started to hit the ball more powerfully…”

"But because the pitcher can throw to the corners, the ball will go in front of the fielder."

"Huh..." Finally the at-bat was over, Mukai breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the batter who was smiling as he walked into the batter's box, 'What a tough batter...'

'But if you can't hit it well, it's as useless as not hitting it at all.'

The consecutive elimination of two batters made the arrogant pitcher of Teito even more proud, and Isashiki stepped into the batter's box viciously.

Still a great hit, after a low outside corner ball...

"I told you not to get carried away!"

"Qiang!"

Isashiki roared and swept a diagonal ball out, successfully reaching base.

"Oh oh oh!"

"The batter's on base!"

"Let's connect the lines!"

"Yuuki-senpai!"

"Azhe!"

Seidou hit the first hit, and with two outs, Yuki calmly stepped into the batter's box to the cheering song.

"The first pitch, a bad ball to the outside corner, the batter saw it clearly!"

"The second pitch is a slider, this one is a good pitch with an edge and a cut to the outside corner!"

"The sun! It's beautiful!"

“The batter can’t tell it’s a good ball!”

"OK! OK! Lock on the target!"

On the third ball after the speed of the ball became a strike and a ball, Yuki quickly and accurately caught a low ball on the inside corner.

"Qiang!"

"Eh!?"

In just a split second, the ball flew high over the infield.

"Wait...wait...the ball just now..." Mukai looked at the ball in shock, "but it was a bad ball..."

"Don't worry..." Qian was also shocked, but it was impossible to hit this ball well, "It will fly out of bounds..."

"Snap! Ta!"

"Hit it near the left field line!"

To everyone's surprise, the ball hit the ground in left field hard, bounced off the wall and bounced back.

"The runner on first base returns to home plate and scores!"

"Drink!"

"Oh oh oh!"

"He hit the tricky inside corner ball very smoothly!" Yamato looked at Senior Feng who stood up in shock.

"Because the ball was hit to the right of center field... that's why it didn't count as a foul ball." Fujio Mine widened his eyes in disbelief, and then realized, 'But... for Mukai, this ball was too easy to hit.'

"The fourth batter, Yuuki, hits a timely hit that leads to a run! The first point that breaks the deadlock finally appears on the scoreboard!"

At this time, Yuki also raised his fist at second base.

While the stadium was cheering for the previous ball, Zengzi stepped into the batter's box and hit a straight ball.

“The ball went behind the second baseman!”

“It fell down!”

"Bottom of the fourth inning, two outs, runners on first and third base. Can sixth batter Miyuki keep this going?"

At this time, Didong called a timeout...

"..." Yamato looked at this miraculous change, not knowing what expression to use, "Just because of one goal... the original situation has completely changed..."

"...This is baseball!" Fujio Mine said calmly.

The script was originally perfect, but the premise was to throw a tricky inside corner ball, because he was thinking about using the outside corner ball to deal with the batter in the end, which left him with a gap.

"Now that you've lost points, there's nothing you can do! Don't be depressed! Just focus on getting the last out!" These were the original words of Coach Okamoto as conveyed by the messenger.

"Well, to be honest, I was shocked as if I was struck by lightning when the ball landed in bounds!"

"Yeah..." Mukai didn't complain about Senior Qian as usual, but responded calmly.

"The sun is okay..."

"..." Hearing the recorder's worry, Supervisor Okamoto was silent for a moment, "Don't worry, idiot!"

"You can't defeat him with just this. Don't underestimate the experience of this man who has been an ace pitcher since junior high school!"

In the bottom of the fourth inning, with two outs and runners on first and third base, the Didong fielders adopted an advanced defensive tactic.

The batter is the sixth batter, catcher Miyuki!

"Two out!"

"Two people are out!"

"Huh!" Mukai took a deep breath and looked straight at home base with sharp eyes.

"First pitch, a straight ball from the inside corner! Throw it boldly!"

"nice shot!"

"..." Yuki looked at the catcher's glove with some surprise. He thought they would attack the outside corner completely with the first ball, but he didn't expect that the pitching would be changed.

'Dance! Come on!'

"Qiang!"

"Foul ball!"

'Make your bat spin!'

"Bad ball!"

"I will prove to everyone who is the No. 1 pitcher of this generation!"

"Qiang!"

"Third baseman!"

After attacking three consecutive inside corners, Miyuki hit a slider to the outside corner as a ground ball to third base.

The defense and runners were also instantly involved. When Yuki ran towards home plate, the third baseman also ran forward, caught the ball and quickly passed it back to home plate.

The ball seemed to return to home plate side by side with the batter, and the catcher and the runner looked at each other at home plate. The collision of their head-on confrontation at home plate caused the field to pause for a moment.

At this moment, Qian began to tremble as if he was struck by lightning.

"Out!"

"Oh oh oh oh!"

"Nice pass from the third baseman!"

"Prevent the opponent from scoring a second point!"

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