Diamond Ace: Monster Slayer

Chapter 51 The ball is coming

"Qiang!"

With an elegant swing, the white ball rose into the air and rushed toward center field like a sharp arrow.

The center fielder obviously underestimated the batter's strength and stood too far forward, making it impossible for him to catch the baseball.

Landed!
A hit to center field! It went through!
"Hip!"

Seeing the baseball fall to the ground, Kuramochi on second base smiled and ran back to home base in one go.

"Safe return! Score!"

"Here we go. Second baseman Ryosuke Kominato is hitting a hit to center field, helping Seidou High School extend their lead. The Seidou High School team has the victory firmly in their hands."

Ryosuke's hit!
You know, Ryosuke was not a player known for his long hits in Qingdao High School.

He was able to get a hit against the ace pitcher of Missim High School, which shows how big the gap between the two sides is.

The fourth game.

The score is now 16:0.

Misimon's life hangs by a thread.

According to the rules of the West Tokyo Summer Tournament, in order to avoid subsequent unimportant innings and protect the advancing teams from the risk of injuries, the rules of early competition were set for matches with large gaps.

In the game, if the score difference between the two sides in the fifth game reaches more than ten points, or the score difference between the two sides in the seventh game reaches more than seven points, the game will end early.

Now in the fourth game, Seidou High School has met this condition.

With an average of four points per inning, Qingdao High School's striking ability has completely crushed the opponent.

Missimon High School even replaced its ace pitcher Masaaki Kikunaga, but was unable to turn the tide.

In the end, at the end of the top of the fourth inning, Seidou High School led 16:0.

In the bottom of the fourth inning, Akira Fōtani was still on the pitcher's mound.

Akira Fōgaya is indeed a very useful pitcher.

At least in competitions of this level, that's true.

If ball possession is not taken into consideration, Tamba is inferior to Fōgiya Akatsuki.

"I really want to play too!"

Sawamura sat in the dugout, staring at the court with his eyes wide open.

When will his "debut" come?

"Boss, is it my turn now? The score has widened so much. If I don't play, it will be over!"

Sawamura still understands the rules of early competition.

So after seeing this score difference, I felt very anxious.

If you don't play now, it will be really difficult to get another chance to play.

"Don't even think about it. With Furuya playing so well right now, you don't have a chance to play anymore."

Minister Ota poured cold water on the idea.

"Ah? Really, Boss?"

Sawamura ran to Director Kataoka pitifully.

But Director Kataoka still had a cool expression and ignored him.

"Strike! Batter is out! Three outs! Attack and defense switch!"

In the end, at the end of the bottom of the fourth inning, Sawamura did not have a chance to play, allowing Fōgaya Akira to play until the end.

"Really boring."

Zhou Hui couldn't help but complain.

After standing in the outfield for a long time without a single ball coming his way, he was getting cold.

"This score difference should be stable. Furuya, you can rest in the next round."

"But Supervisor, I think..."

"No need to keep talking, Sawamura, go warm up."

"It's the boss!"

Sawamura stood up excitedly, ran to the bullpen and started warming up.

Xiao Jiangu's face was full of disappointment.

Having never participated in a game during junior high school, he was eager for playing time. He just wanted to play the entire game.

It’s not like he doesn’t have the ability.

In the top of the fifth inning, Qingdao High School continued to put on a wonderful offensive feast.

The continuous hits made it difficult for Missimen High School to catch their breath. In the end, Kikunaga Masaaki couldn't even stand up and lay on the pitcher's mound.

But at that time, there were still two outs left.

As a last resort, coach Chiba had to send the left fielder to the field.

In the end, in this round, Misimon High School was once again defeated by Qingdao High School by 3 points and entered their final round with a score of 19:0.

The game has come to an end, and Qingdao High School has also begun "training".

"Seidou High School's substitution notice: pitcher Furuya is going to rest and will be replaced by Sawamura-san."

"Which pitcher is Sawamura again?"

Coach Chiba looked at the field, wondering what kind of player this Sawamura was.

The game is about to end and the pitcher is changing, and the player is a freshman?

Supervisor Chiba was angry!

This is simply a practice run against Missimen High School!

The mood that had calmed down was aroused again.

"Damn Qingdao High School, there's a freshman on the back foot! Remember this, you must score a point no matter what! Even if it's just a base hit! We must show them some results and let them see that we, Mishimon, are not to be trifled with!"

"Yes!"

Even if the players of Missimen High School could tolerate it, the continuous contempt made them angry.

One by one, they were in full swing again and stood in the batter's box.

"Bottom of the fifth inning, Missimon High School is on offense, fourth batter, first baseman, Miyashita-san."

Sawamura looked back and opened his arms.

"I'll make them hit the ball out, and defense will be a hassle for everyone!"

Sawamura still said the words that everyone was familiar with.

The fielders of Seidou High School all responded and said that they would just leave it to them.

"Yeah, of course I'll hit them all out, and the fielders won't be able to catch them."

Miyashita's eyes became fierce, and he seemed like a madman. Looking at Sawamura's expression, he seemed to want to eat him.

"Whoosh!"

Sawamura threw the baseball with great force, and his broad shoulders made it impossible for Miyashita to see where the ball was thrown.

"so slow?"

Miyashita was also panicked.

Without baseball in sight, he had no idea what to do.

It turns out that the students admitted by Qingdao High School are not unknown people.

"When did you come?"

Seeing the baseball suddenly coming towards him, Miyashita was caught off guard and could only swing the bat.

"Qiang!"

"late!"

Miyashita obviously felt that he swung the bat too late, and it was not a good time to swing at all.

But it had already been hit, and could only be pulled out by brute force.

That's how Sawamura's ball is.

The moment the ball is released, from the batter's perspective there is only a flash of white light and nothing else. The moment the batter sees the baseball, it is already at hand.

It was too late to swing.

But if you don't swing the bat, the next pitch you'll see will be this type of ball, and the batter will have no chance to swing.

So after seeing a baseball, the only option is to swing.

For this ball, Miyashita used brute force to pull it to the outfield. He didn't hit the center of the ball and swung it too late. This distance was actually very good for Miyashita.

But Zhou Hui has made a lot of preparations to defend a ball.

After seeing the baseball, he had already found the landing spot.

"Finally the ball came."

"Snapped!"

"Out!"

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(End of this chapter)