Here comes that person, Kōshū Pay special attention to that person's appearance.
What Miyuki thought of was that in the last round of the game, the opponent's eagle-like eyes could accurately grasp the trajectory of the baseball.
Be careful when dealing with Narumiya Mei. Anyway, it's two outs now. Try two balls. If it doesn't work, just give it a walk.
The first ball was a straight ball to the outside corner. The batsman looked cautious and had no intention of swinging the bat.
"Bad ball!"
The ball was obviously bad. Not only did the hitter not swing the bat, but Miyuki also became more and more suspicious.
Second ball, high inside angle.
White Shadow and Narumiya Mei, which were inserted directly into the chest, raised their arms and watched it pass by the chest.
"Bad ball!"
Now there are two bad goals and no good goals, which is troublesome.
Miyuki squeezed the ball in his hand and said, 'You can see it very clearly. Otherwise, we should just walk him out. It's too dangerous. '
Signals was played again, but the pitcher shook his head.
'This is not the time to be willful. It is safer to walk him to face the next batter. '
Five seconds have passed, and the Signals surrendered by Seido has not yet been determined.
"Time!"
Miyuki called for a timeout. Kōshū took off his hat and wiped the sweat from his face. At the same time, he secretly yelled, "How can I be so stubborn in this situation?"
It's just that in the situation just now, Narumiya Mei was staring at him, and his blood boiled for a moment, and he shook his head continuously.
"Kōshū, do you want to fight now?" Miyuki's eyes were very sharp.
Putting on his hat again to hide his expression, Kōshū replied, "No, in this case it would be better to send the other party."
The catcher raised his eyebrows, so what was it that he just shook his head continuously? Does he have to go to Pitcher's Mound for the pitcher to realize it correctly?
"Well, if you want to fight, that's fine. Anyway, it's two outs." After thinking about it, Miyuki didn't mention the issue of inaccurate pitching in this inning, and said encouragingly, "So let's strike him out, okay?"
The accuracy of Kōshū has some problems, but overall it's not big. Maybe it's because the status hasn't been adjusted yet.
"Eh?" Didn't you say you want to be escorted? The pitcher was stunned for a moment, but then he remembered that he hadn't told the catcher about his situation, 'Should I reveal it now? '
"Nani?" The pitching timeout was about to pass. Miyuki's mind was full of ways to deal with the batter, and he missed the pitcher's expression for a moment.
Looking up again, the struggling look on the pitcher's face had gone, leaving only a calm expression. "It's nothing."
"Then strike him out." The catcher slapped his chest expectantly.
Kōshū pulled the brim of his hat again. He just thought that this game was Central Batting Lineup, and he could handle it. Maybe the hitters in the future will be able to do it in their current state.
'After telling Miyuki, I might have to end now. ' His ankle no longer hurts, but the tight feeling in his socks is still there, and it's probably still swollen.
Miyuki who stepped off Pitcher's Mound and Narumiya Mei who was on Batter's Box met their eyes.
"Why, is he in bad shape?" The batter smelled something wrong. In his dozens of hours of research on Kōshū, the opponent was the type that decided the winner at Strike Zone, so so many bad balls must not be the catcher's request, but another reason.
'But, is it possible? Didn't he just recover from his injury? '
Miyuki just smiled and shook his head, "It's just that the details still need to be determined. It's really not easy to get you out."
"Humph——"
Narumiya Mei could hear the perfunctoriness. After the two had a brief exchange, Miyuki squatted down again and compared with Signals.
The pitcher finally nodded, 'Outside corner.. '
White Shadow struck again, and the batter was keenly aware that it was a ball in a bad position in the outside corner.
Combined with his doubts about the accuracy of Kōshū, the batter decided to wait for another ball, but he did not expect that the ball suddenly turned towards Strike Zone in the middle. At this time, it was too late to release the bat in a hurry.
"Good shot!"
'What's going on? Why is the ball control suddenly so good again? Could it be that those bad shots just now were all due to the Pitching Strategy changes in Miyuki? ' The batter was confused and worried, and he cared too much about this duel, so he went through every detail in his mind several times.
But Seido didn't give the batter a chance to breathe. Kōshū raised his foot again, still in the outside corner.
'Are you looking down on me?! 'Narumiya Mei was not ready to wait any longer at this time, but at the end of the ball's trajectory, he discovered the tendency to turn towards the bad ball.
"Bump--" The final movement of the baseball caused the hitting point to directly change to the top of the bat.
The original imagination of hitting Kōshū's ball far away and slowly running the bases with the opponent's surprised expression was shattered in Narumiya Mei's eyes.
"Damn it!!!"
No matter how unwilling you are, you have to run the base. The reality is that all your strength is focused on the head of the bat. No matter how hard you try, you can only hit the ball toward third base. The ball lands in front of the third baseman and then passes toward first base.
"Out!"
Narumiya Mei gritted his teeth, facing the situation of being eliminated again. After several shooting duels with the opponent's ace, he failed to gain the upper hand. Some of the things he firmly believed in his heart were slowly broken.
'Maybe I'm not as powerful as that person? '
"Three out, switch sides!"
What was more terrifying than encountering setbacks was slowly beginning to accept reality. Narumiya Mei ran back to Dugout. Along the way, Kōshū was looking back at him.
The two aces returned to their own Dugout, but after this game, something settled in their hearts.
"Narumiya, what's wrong..." Hayakawa didn't ask for no reason. After coming off the court, Narumiya Mei's eyes were a little dazed.
"Hey, Hayakawa, why? I've made so many preparations, why can't I get rid of him?"
As someone who has caught pitches from both pitchers at the same time, Hayakawa still has a certain say in this issue.
"Narumiya... It's time to pitch, stop thinking about hitting." The catcher couldn't answer and could only push the pitcher forward, but he could clearly feel that in Narumiya Mei's heart, the battle with Kōshū had taken up too much of his energy.
Whether it was Hagar's unusual attention during the period, the subsequent dozens of hours of research and targeted practice, or the monitoring of his mobile phone, as well as the desperate fall just now, it all pointed to one thing. Things in the summer are far from over. Narumiya Mei did not put all his energy on the victory of the team, but on the personal strength contest with Kōshū.
Therefore, in several consecutive pitching duels, the two of them competed as pitchers and hitters respectively. The result was that Kōshū successfully hit his ball, but he did not. This kind of frustration began to slowly erode his heart before the game was over.
"In the next inning, we have to face Kōshū again. As a pitcher, let's strike him out."
After hearing this, Narumiya Mei's expression improved.
"Yeah, if we can strike him out."