Chapter 146: Rise To The Challenge!

"Third Batter, Center, Isashiki-kun."

After two Outs, it was Isashiki Jun's turn at bat.

He went against Kominato Ryosuke, who was shut Out. Ryosuke originally wanted to tell Isashiki about the information he had observed. But looking at his angry expression, Ryosuke wisely chose to shut up.

'Every Batter has his own style.'

'Too much information is not necessarily beneficial to Jun.'

'Forget it, let him experience it himself and rely on intuition to hit, there may be unexpected gains.'

Ryosuke, who returned to the rest area, no longer kept it to himself and told his teammates at Seidou High School one by one the information he had observed.

A straight ball with an irregular break!

"It was very strange when we were collecting information before. This player named Kosuke Ishizue was not famous at all when he was in middle school. Why did he suddenly become the Ace of Hirotaka High School? Now it seems that the person responsible for inviting him really has a brilliant eye!

Although it is difficult for him to grow into a super Ace like Sawamura and Narumiya, as the Ace of a Famous School, there is still no problem. Hirotaka is probably also relying on their pitcher's irregular ball to make it so far." Coach Ochiai commented.

When watching the material before, it was difficult to see such a faintly breaking Straight ball.

Judging from the video, it's not much different from a Straight ball!

In fact, at that time, the players of Seidou High School had such doubts.

Why is Kosuke Ishizue's Straight ball so hard to hit?

Now it seems difficult to hit, it is not a Straight ball at all, but a kind of Moving ball.

"To deal with this kind of ball, if you focus on aiming for a long hit, it may be counterproductive. It is better to hit normally, trust your own strength, and you can sweep the ball forward with power!"

Coach Kataoka immediately ordered the tactics.

"Yes!"

The players of Seidou High School naturally have no reason not to agree.

After changing his equipment, Tetsuya arrived at the on-deck circle.

Masuko also started to warm up, he was the fifth batter in today's game.

Masuko was thinking about it himself when Coach Kataoka ordered the tactics.

Believe in your own power!

"Bring it! Brat!!"

On the strike zone, the Beard-Senpai looked at Kosuke on the pitcher's mound with fierce eyes, as if he was going to be eaten alive.

"How horrible!"

Kosuke smirked in his mind.

In the information they had collected before, Isashiki Jun was definitely not a hard opponent.

'And this weakness is very obvious!'

He is an aggressive swinger, so aggressive that even if the first pitch is out of the strike zone, he'll still swing as long as it doesn't stray too far.

Kosuke the pitcher is the least afraid of the batter's blind swings.

He would preferred if the batter swung the bat early to settle the batter and get the Out.

In this way, how could he be afraid of Isashiki swinging the bat, he couldn't even hope for more.

Whoosh!

The white ball whizzed forward.

Isashiki didn't change his habit and swung the bat directly.

Ping!

After the white ball was hit, it soared forward crookedly.

The ball soared forward with no strength at all.

If it's normal, the infielder at Hirotaka High School should be able to block the ball easily, pass it to first base, and block Isashiki Out of the play.

But the reality is exactly the opposite.

It wasn't until the baseball fell that the infielders at Hirotaka High School responded.

They missed it!

In fact, it is not appropriate to say that it was missed. The most appropriate way to say it would be that Isashiki was precise, and just hit the white ball with no strength in the gap of Hirotaka High School's defense.

SNAP!

When the ball hits the ground, it bounces to the outfield.

Isashiki took the opportunity to hit first base.

Two Outs, a runner at first base.

In the rest area of ​​Hirotaka High School.

Seeing Isashiki run to first base deviously, the Players from Hirotaka High School were all very upset.

"Come on, the opponent's luck is too good."

"The last one who was originally guaranteed to be Out of the play, I didn't expect such a result."

"It seems that luck has abandoned us."

The Players talked and complained.

The Coach who seemed to be timid and had no presence before, had a rare serious expression on his face.

"It's because Isashiki practiced his swing hard enough to accurately send the ball to that place…"

He has seen so much information from just one hit from Isashiki Jun.

Although in front of his own players, he seemed a little timid and kept saying discouraging things.

But this chubby-looking superintendent is still pretty insightful.

The game continues.

There were two Outs, runner first base, and then Yuuki got into the batting Box.

"Yuuki!"

"Yuuki!!!"

The Seidou fans in the stands seemed to be insane and kept shouting the name of Yuuki.

It is easy to see that they are looking forward to Yuuki's performance.

"BALL!"

"BALL!"

"BALL!"

"BALL!"

"Four Ball Walk!"

Two Outs, runners on first and second base.

The audience and the players in the rest area of ​​Seidou High School were all very excited.

They seem to have seen Kosuke Ishizue's demise.

It's just a pity that Kosuke didn't give them a chance.

He directly used the four Balls and Walked the Captain without hesitation.

When someone went to base, Hirotaka High School seemed to have made up their minds and would never go head-to-head with Yuuki right now.

Compared to confronting Yuuki head-to-head, he is more confident in getting Masuko Out.

"Fifth Batter, third baseman, Masuko-kun."

Deliberately avoiding the duel with the Captain of Steel and choosing him as the opponent, this is obviously considering Masuko as a target who they can win the number of Outs from.

Any player facing such a situation will inevitably feel angry.

But Masuko is no longer one of those!

The more he experiences this, the more he gets used to it.

There was no change in expression on Masuko Toru's face. He just fixed his eyes on the pitcher on the mound!

Facing Masuko, Kosuke and the others didn't put much thought into using the Straight ball directly.

Whoosh!

The white ball whistled.

Facing this ball, Masuko kept reminding himself.

'There is no need to hold the bat in a long grip. With a normal short grip, you can send the ball far with your power alone.'

'When swinging, be decisive, clean, and never hold back!'

BUZZ!!

Seeing the small ball flying over, he decisively swung the bat.

When the bat was swung, vibrations could be heard faintly around the entire strike zone.

PAANG!!!

After the small white ball was Exploded, it kept flying, and flying, and flying.

Until it soared beyond the fence of the field and flew out of the stadium…

"THREE! A THREE-RUN HOMER!!!"

The on-site commentator of Koshien couldn't help shaking his voice.

Everything in front of him really made him unbelievable.

Three-point home run!!!

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T/N: In terms of batting power, Masuko Toru ranks second behind Nagata Shouhei from Seiko in the series overall.

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