Everyone's eyes followed the White Shadow, which spanned an arc close to the entire stadium in the direction of the center field and landed two meters in front of the wall.
The field suddenly came alive, and Shirakawa's footsteps stomped on the way to the next base.
"Pa--" Tojo heard the sound of the ball hitting the wall, rushed nearby, and collected the ball in his palm.
"Third base!"
"Third base!"
The surrounding sounds filled Tojo's ears. While flipping his hand, he prepared to throw the ball and threw the ball towards third base.
"Brush—" Shirakawa's footsteps stopped suddenly, making a sound as they scraped against the sand.
The second base umpire spreads his hands flat to signal safety.
At this time, the game became quiet again.
It was hit hard. If the ball hadn't been powerful, it might have hit the Home Run wall.
For a moment, everyone on the court was thinking one thing, 'Did I miss a shot just now? '
As soon as there was someone on second base, they were immediately faced with Inashi's Central Batting Lineup, not to mention Ota Manager, and everyone else was also nervous.
'Why was he suddenly caught by the opponent when he was in such good condition? '
'Did it suddenly collapse? '
'The psychology of a pitcher is really a mystery.. '
Then everyone saw a figure standing up at home plate.
"Time!"
When Miyuki came to Pitcher's Mound, the first thing he said was, "Sorry, I was too anxious. You are in good condition. Don't be affected by this ball."
Furuya still nodded obediently, but no one knew whether he would be affected next.
The brief gap passed and the game started flowing again.
The sound of Sawamura's practicing pitch at Bullpen became louder. Kōshū felt a little irritated and strange because of this emotion when he heard that sound.
'Think about it carefully, hasn't Sawamura always been like this? Why do you pay special attention today? '
Because his peripheral vision and energy were given to Seido Dugout, it was still quiet over there, so only the sound of Eijun leaked into his ears.
'Starting to get anxious, myself? ' He's obviously a trump card.
At home plate, the batter had already taken a stand. After sizing it up, the catcher quickly settled on Signals for the first pitch.
'It's still the same position close to the inside corner, but.. '
If you push your pitchers too hard, you're bound to have problems.
So on the next ball, Miyuki's glove was placed in the outside corner to miss the ball.
Furuya heard his breathing sound loudly, which seemed to echo in the shadow under the brim of his hat.
Looking back at the runner, he saw that this was the man who struck out in the duel just now, but then, the pitcher forced himself to turn his head and no longer think about that scene.
Following Kōshū's example, he focused his attention on the sensations throughout his body and controlled his muscles to move Matsushita.
He stepped out as usual, twisting his body to concentrate all his strength on the final point of action, but at this last moment, Furuya was not so sure about the touch of his fingertips, 'Is that so? '
For the first time, he had such doubts, and the entire smooth pitching did not stop due to this lag in thinking.
White Shadow has escaped.
The batter steps out without hesitation. He has only one target - the first pitch of the pitcher who was hit out!
No matter how calm they are, when faced with failure, no matter how confident they are, they will begin to question their own strength. The same goes for pitchers. After being hit, they need to use several good balls to gradually cover up the previous impression.
But Miyuki wants a bad ball!
He knows the plan of Inashi's hitter, so he only needs Furuya to throw a bad ball!
White Shadow flew to home plate, and Miyuki knew that this time it was really not going to work. It was another high and red ball.
As if they had agreed, the bat and White Shadow met in the middle.
"Bang——" The sound of hitting sounded again in the stadium, making Furuya's mind go blank.
The runner was as fast as the wind, bypassing third base and heading straight for home plate. The ball was far from arriving. At this time, Shirazu in the right field had just picked up the ball.
"Home plate!!"
Shirazu threw his arm towards home plate.
"Safe!"
The rice is better first!
Shirakawa roared out all the frustration in his heart, and jumped and high-fived Yamaoka, the four-stick man. "Leave it to you, four-stick man!"
Miyuki held the ball, watched second base once again being occupied by a runner, and cast his eyes at Dugout.
Over there, Kataoka Manager has already stood up and raised his hand.
Furuya's body trembled and he pressed the brim of his hat with his hand. He didn't understand what was wrong with him and why he suddenly couldn't feel anything.
'If you give me two more chances... '
Maybe Kataoka Manager and everyone hope to give him a chance, but Inomi will never give him this chance to recover.
"Notice of Seido High School player change... Pitcher, Kōshū, left field, Mr. Asou."
Kōshū jogged to Pitcher's Mound, and everyone in the infield gathered together. When the sound of running approached, they all followed Furuya's gaze and turned to the pitcher who had just approached.
Furuya showed his usual stubbornness on his face, but his movements with his hands were not slow at all. When Kōshū turned his palms up, he handed the ball to the opponent, "Sorry, this situation..."
"Don't say that, you've already shot very well." Kōshū said seriously.
Furuya pressed the brim of his hat and said nothing more.
Everyone in the infield started an infield meeting again with Kōshū as the core.
"Pfft--" The pitcher looked at everyone's unconscious frowns and couldn't help laughing.,
"You're laughing so hard!" Kuramochi now had no room to use his legs, so he could only say through gritted teeth, but after changing his mind, he asked cautiously, "What, have you thought of another method?"
"No, no, no, I just feel that this scene is so familiar." In the previous summer, he would always play at this time, "What should the supervisor say, it's a bit Path Dependence."
The so-called Path Dependence, when a person often uses the same method to solve most problems, he will tend to use this method non-stop, and eventually become dependent on this path to solve the problem, and habitually think of this path.
And Kōshū is the path that Kataoka Manager habitually relies on.
This pitcher seems to have no stage fright in such a big scene, and can fully utilize his own strength and cooperate with his own thinking to maximize the effectiveness of his pitching.
Therefore, when the team encounters difficulties and needs a big-hearted pitcher, the first thing the supervisor thinks of is Kōshū.
"Kōshū, at times like this, don't think about this." Haruichi was afraid that the pitcher's laughter would attract a critical hit from his seniors, so he quickly stopped him.
"So, what is your solution?" Senior Maezono skipped Kuramochi's question and asked further.
Kōshū covered his mouth with gloves, which forced everyone to move closer to him. "Of course there is a way!"
"What is that?" Now even Miyuki became curious.
"Just trust the pitcher's pitch~~~"
It's so frustrating. I only came in third place after the project was approved.
There were originally four judges, and two of them were our director and our manager. The manager felt that I was guaranteed the first place, so he withdrew from the voting to avoid suspicion..
I ended up in third place...
Then the director and manager both sent me messages telling me not to worry about it, saying it was only 0.1 point difference..
But the key point is that the second place belongs to another colleague in our department. Everyone thought that in the end, I was first and he was second. As expected, he was second and I was third.
Frustrated, frustrated