The atmosphere of the Saigo's game

This time the schedule of the spring tournament.

In the first round of the battle ran into Seidou High School, which is undoubtedly a hard opponent for Saigo High School. Also known as a strong school in the Tokyo area, if Saigo High School's lineup strength can be judged as an A rank, Seidou High School is undoubtedly an S+ rank.

Even though Inoue-senpai's strength is not considered tougher.

But with so much experience and suppression from his lineup, in the moment of facing Saigo High School's lineup, Inoue-senpai's pitching would seem to respond well.

"Swish"

"Swish"

"Pop"

"Strike!!!"

"Batter out!!!"

"Last pitch, the inside corner fastball, the batter strikes out on an empty swing!!! Koji Inoue, the third-year ace of Seidou High School who started the game, didn't back down in the face of Saigo High School's constant strong attack, and used his strength to overpower Saigo High School's lineup!!!"

"Great pitch, Inoue-senpai."

"Two outs, two outs."

"One more out to go!!!"

"Take it straight down, ace-sama!!!"

Saigo High School, which is good at hitting the infield strongly and breaking through the opponent's infield defense to reach the base, the solid members of the infield defense of Seidou High School were far beyond the expectation of Saigo High School.

The first round was completely suppressed by Seidou High School.

Although there was a chance to catch Inoue's gap on the fastball and knock out a hit, the subsequent attacks could not be linked up and at most stopped at the second base, and the attacks could not be continued to the end.

In the top of the fourth inning, the second batter of the lineup.

The head coach of Saigo High School, Coach Nishikado, intended to adjust the tempo of the offense.

However, it was perfectly understood by Chris-senpai at the home plate and changed the formation accordingly. Not only the defensive formation change but in terms of ball allocation, Chris-senpai even used Inoue-senpai's winning ball as bait to lure the Saigo High School batter.

In addition, the 4th batter of Saigo hit a base hit to center field and stepped on the first base.

The next two batters were unable to continue the offense.

They got two strikeouts in a row.

Once again, Saigo High School was forced to the edge of the cliff.

"Damn Seidou High School, this defense, there is no gap to be exploited!

On the third-base dugout, Coach Nishikado watched his players get three strikeouts once again, helplessly gritted his teeth and thought anxiously inside, that his lineup could not open up the situation in four innings, but Seidou High School has already broken through Saigo High School's defense with its super destructive power, three innings, four runs, a four-run lead, so Coach Nishikado knew very well that if in the middle game If he couldn't recover a little bit of the deficit, the match would not need to be played at all going into the final set.

The probability of overturning the match is infinitely close to zero.

This is the key point of the match.

Something has to be done here!

However, the reality in front of us is that the difference between Saigo High School and Seidou High School in terms of hard power is still too big.

"Swoosh"

"Swish"

"Bang!!!"

"First base!!!"

"Snapped!"

With two outs, Saigo High School's seventh batter hit a flat fly ball in the direction of first base, which flew steadily into Tetsuya-senpai's mitt and made a clear sound.

"Out, three outs, change!"

In the top of the fourth inning, Saigo High School still could only leave a stump at first base, unable to break through the defense of Seidou High School, and reluctantly retired from the game.

"Good pitch, Inoue, just keep up the pace."

The moment they returned to the dugout, Coach Kataoka nodded gently to Inoue-senpai, and the words that came out in a warm voice made Inoue-senpai feel as if they were pumped with adrenaline, and his whole body was stirred up.

"Yes!!! Coach!!!"

"The dominance of the game is already in our hands, the next attack will not need to be polite, your goal is the nationals, the next attack can take a few points, understand!

"Yes!!!"

Coach Kataoka's words are as if to motivate the Azuma-senpai, Tetsuya-senpai, and others, those loud reply words are revealed the slightest hint of hideous air.

"Bottom of the fourth inning, Seidou High School's attack, 7th, left fielder, Miyagi-Kun."

The unreasonable strong attack.

In the first round of the lineup.

The Seidou lineup was already showing its hideous look.

It brought enough pressure on Saigo High School ace Tanaka, especially the terrifying swinging speed of the 4th batter, Azuma-senpai, and the terrifying intimidating power.

It is like a heavy swinging bat that blows directly on the heart.

"Bang !!!!"

A bodacious blow from a super long distance.

If Tanaka wasn't mentally tough enough, he would have been directly crushed by that terrifying swing of the bat from Azuma-senpai, sparingly, in the previous offensive and defensive battles.

In the first three innings.

Under the leading offense of Azuma-senpai and Testsuya-senpai.

Seidou High School got 4 points lead.

In this second round, after having fully adapted to Saigo High School's ace ball path.

The lineup of Seidou High School had both power and skill.

The Saigo High School ace began to feel a sense of suffocation that could not be overcome.

Time after time, the swing of the bat brought great pressure to the Saigo High School ace, and even to the fielders.

"Swoosh."

"Swish."

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Ohhhhhhhhh!!! Through and through!!!"

The power play kept on going and the pressure didn't stop.

Honestly, the Saigo High School ace was already pitching tenaciously, and each pitch was thrown quite carefully, basically not throwing any good hitting ball paths out either.

Even so, Azuma-senpai, Tetsu-senpai and Chris-senpai came up with one hit after another.

Shigeno, who was on the dugout, felt sorry for Saigo High School's ace.

"Nice pitch, but it's a pity that you are facing the top lineup in the country ...."

He looked at the Saigo High School ace who was already drenched in sweat on the mound after only four innings, shook his head gently, and thought silently inwardly.

The strength of Seidou High School's lineup.

As far as the current stage is concerned.

The only option to win against Seidou High School is to engage in a batting battle with Seidou High School, as Seidou High School's only and biggest weak link at the moment.

Just be able to grab this gap.

The game will be dragged into the rhythm of chaotic fighting.

Then, Saigo High School also has the probability of winning. In the summer tournament and fall tournament, Seidou High School lost to Kurotsuchi and Kasuga Ichi, which are not the four great teams, because their pitchers were too weak and the opponent found a gap.

Then the result appeared to be an exaggerated score of more than 10 points.

Thus losing the game.

"Don't worry about the opponent's offense, your goal only attacks, attack, or attack, It's not that the opponent's pitcher's fastball is not without a way to catch, the trajectory of that shuuto is also controllable, catch his fastball, bite to death, understand!

No matter how badly Seidou High School has been doing in the past few years and is being suppressed by the other three giants, it is still difficult for other high schools to win against a team like Seidou High School.

Last year, Kurotokan was able to win against Seidou High School with a large degree of luck.

Coach Nishikado did not force his players to win the game.