Diamond Ace: Monster Slayer

Chapter 301: Cultural students can also play well
"In the bottom of the first inning, Seidou High School is on offense. The first batter is the shortstop, Kuramochi-san."

This time, Kuramochi chose the right batting zone closest to first base.

The right batter's box is close to first base, and you can see the ball path clearly.

For Kuramochi, this could definitely be the best thing ever.

In the first game, Qingdao High School was definitely aiming to score points.

In fact, Seidou High School was aiming to score points in every game. Their offensive firepower has always been very strong, there is no doubt about that.

Anyone who has played against Seidou High School should know that Seidou High School does not slack off in the slightest.

However, Seidou High School prefers to score in the first inning.

When playing against Seidou High School, normal teams would use their ace pitcher.

The scoring in the first inning undoubtedly had a huge impact on the ace pitcher.

If they could defeat the opposing team's ace pitcher in one fell swoop, wouldn't the rest of the games be easy for Seidou High School?
"It's the right batter's box."

Mushroom-headed Wakabayashi Hao looked around and threw the first ball.

"Whoosh!"

The first ball was a straight ball to the outside corner.

Coming here, the pitchers' ball control is indeed much more stable.

There will no longer be people like Fōgiya Akatsuki wandering around.

Ball control is the most basic thing a shooter should have.

If the ball is not played at extremely high speed, the supervisors will only look at ball control.

Only when your ball speed reaches a certain level, ball control will become less important.

But it is obvious that Wakabayashi Hao, whose maximum pitch speed is just 140km, does not have this ability.

"Snapped!"

"nice shot!"

The straight ball from the corner landed right into the catcher's glove.

"Good shot, Xiaohao!"

“Nice angle!”

"This hitter, please help me!"

If Lin Hao took the pass from the catcher, he would look coldly towards the batter's box.

He ignored any of his teammates who were cheering him on.

Although this looks cool, the overall atmosphere of the team may not be very good.

But when Lin Hao is off the court, he has a very good relationship with his teammates.

Otherwise, no one would call him "Xiao Hao" or "Xiao Hao".

"For the next ball, use the forkball."

The catcher made a signal.

The fork ball is undoubtedly the type of ball that Wakabayashi Hao is best at.

For the second ball, I used the fork ball, which I am best at. To be honest, there is nothing wrong with it.

Show your most powerful ball as soon as possible, which will also be a warning to Qingdao High School.

"Whoosh!"

The moment the white ball entered the strike zone, it began to fall, but Kuramochi, who swung the bat early, did not notice this.

"Qiang!"

When he hit the ball, he realized that the timing was wrong. Now all he could do was to get the baseball to the outfield as much as possible.

"Out of bounds."

The referee was not surprised and announced the goal.

Without enough control of the ball that reached base, hitting it out of bounds wouldn't keep it in bounds.

He didn't want to give up this out so easily.

"Innocent."

If Lin Hao uttered two words, he would continue to raise his leg and throw the ball.

"Whoosh!"

"Qiang!"

Kuramochi still hit it out.

But this ball was a bad one. When he hit it, Kuramochi also noticed that the angle was wrong.

But there is no other way.

Baseball had been swept out, and there was nothing he could do to change it.

What made him even more shocked was that the first hit of the baseball actually landed inside the foul line.

Seeing this, the third baseman, who had been prepared, rushed out, picked up the baseball and threw it to first base.

"Snapped!"

Haruhi at first base caught it steadily.

"Out!"

The first baseman of Wanggu High School is Takahiro Kasuga, who is also their fourth batter.

In Wanggu High School, he is almost the second pillar of support besides Wakabayashi Hao.

It took three pitches to get rid of a batter, which is not bad. That's the number of pitches it takes to get a strikeout.

"Are you stupid? I could tell that the ball just now was a bad ball that was out of the strike zone. What made you swing the bat?"

Seeing Kuramochi coming back, Maezono pointed at Kuramochi's forehead and started scolding him.

Today's position is not as calm as before.

Maezono is considered a very rough guy in Seidou High School, but he saw the good and bad of this ball, which proves that Kuramochi was careless this time.

In the past, Kuramochi would not swing the bat unless he saw five or more pitches.

But I don’t know what’s going on. Ever since Zhou Hui came, this kid has started to get anxious.

If it were the previous Kuramochi, he might have chosen the ball and reached base in this at-bat.

"Second batter, right fielder, Hakushu-san."

"Whoosh!"

A look of relief appeared on Wakabayashi's face, and his right hand naturally released the ball, letting the baseball fly away.

"Snapped!"

"nice shot!"

It was a straight ball to the inside corner, but Shirasu didn't swing the bat and just watched the baseball go in.

One good ball, no bad ball.

"Seidou High School's bats are very aggressive, so why not test him with two bad balls?"

After the catcher gave the signal, Wakabayashi Hao nodded.

"Bad ball."

"Bad ball."

Two lobs were thrown not far from the strike zone, but Hakushu remained motionless and did not swing the bat.

One strike, two balls.

"Take your time, Xiaohao."

"Do not worry."

"Control it."

Ignoring the batter behind him, Lin Hao threw the baseball again.

"Whoosh!"

"Snapped!"

"nice shot!"

This time, it was a fork ball with a significant change.

Hakushu's swing missed!

"As expected of Wakabayashi-san's specialty, it's so difficult to beat the people from Seidou High School."

After hearing what Yamato Akiko said, Fujio stood aside and said nothing.

Although Lin Hao's fork ball is a bit tricky, it is not something that a ball machine cannot produce.

There must be something wrong here.

It’s really too fake that Qingdao High School has been unable to make a breakthrough.

Even in their least efficient years offensively, they averaged four points per game.

"Whoosh!"

This time, it was a straight ball low to the center of the red.

"Qiang!"

"Snapped!"

"Out!"

As soon as the baseball was picked up, right fielder Yamazato caught it.

That way, two are out!
"Now Wakabayashi's pitch count has reached seven."

Watanabe wrote something on the record sheet. From his words, it was not difficult to tell that Qingdao High School might be playing a big game.

The core of this big chess game is undoubtedly Wakabayashi Hao!

"Third batter, catcher, Miyuki-san."

As soon as Yukichi came on the court, the cheers and shouts of excitement suddenly disappeared.

Although Miyuki has become the core batting line of Seidou High School, his unstable hitting is still often criticized.

"Whoosh!"

"Qiang!"

"Wrong guess again."

Yuki stuck out his tongue.

He guessed that this ball was a high straight ball in the inside corner, but who would have thought that it was a fork ball in the outside corner.

This kind of ball with a downward trajectory is not a good hit.

"Out! Three outs! Attack and defense switch!"

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(End of this chapter)