Ace of Diamond: Sign-in to Inajitsu's Reign
Chapter 19

End of Yamamori Battle

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Unfortunately, this ball didn't become a home run, but a solo shot, hitting the left field wall. Su Qing stopped at second base, clapped his hands, took off his leg guards and batting gloves, and handed them to an unknown third-year senior who came to help him.

Su Qing didn't stray far from the base; he knew his limits. With his speed, reaching third base was definitely out of the question. Su Qing glanced at Coach Kunimoto again. Coach Kunimoto didn't give any instructions. Yamaoka Riku, stepping into the batter's box, didn't bunt either, so he just waited.

Ogata, seeing that Su Qing wasn't far from the base, just turned around symbolically, not even throwing the ball, merely warning Su Qing not to attempt a steal.

Yamaoka Riku eventually hit a ground ball towards first base, allowing Su Qing to advance to third, seemingly within scoring position. However, Yamagami struck out, immediately ruining the good opportunity.

Hirai Tsubasa also failed to get a hit. Su Qing didn't plan to move, calling out to Shirakawa to bring him his glove; he wouldn't go down. In the end, he still didn't get a sip of water, too miserable, too miserable.

In the next two innings, Maruse's pitches were completely figured out by the Yamamori batting lineup, losing a total of three runs in two innings. The Inajitsu batting lineup finally stepped up once, scoring the first run of the game with Su Qing's help. Su Qing's batting average remained at 1.000.

In the top of the fifth inning, Coach Kunimoto made a series of substitution requests, first replacing Maruse with Kuwahara, and then Su Qing was surprisingly taken off the field, replaced by a substitute third baseman.

Coach Kunimoto was clearly letting loose completely. Taiga Manager next door looked very unhappy. In his opinion, Coach Kunimoto was simply bullying them too much, but he didn't rashly replace Ogata, instead gathering his disciples and telling them to teach Inajitsu a harsh lesson.

As a result, Kuwahara was immediately subjected to Yamamori's relentless attacks, giving up 5 runs in 3 innings. In the bottom of the 7th inning, Yamamori also brought on a relief pitcher, none other than Kamitari's younger brother, Kamitari Shuji...

Seeing his younger brother on the field, Kamitari Mototsugu, as the catcher, became even more excited. Using his pitch selection, Kamitari Shuji didn't give up a single run in 2 innings...

But in the bottom of the ninth inning, Coach Kunimoto also felt that the score was too unsightly, gathering his disciples and cheering them on. This cheering on really seemed to have a buff effect, but Su Qing was more inclined to believe that Kamitari Shuji's pitches had been figured out by the Inajitsu batters. After all, the Inajitsu batting lineup wasn't to be trifled with. After seeing a round, if they still couldn't hit a fastball around 130 km/h, they might as well find a tofu block and smash their heads into it.

In the final inning, Inajitsu scored four consecutive runs, and the game ended with a score of 11:5. Inajitsu's Kanto Tournament journey also came to an end, truly getting what they asked for.

After the game, Taiga Manager pulled Coach Kunimoto aside and said a lot of things. The two were actually old rivals. Taiga Manager severely criticized Coach Kunimoto for not taking him seriously and sending people out to mess around. Coach Kunimoto explained amicably. Su Qing didn't know if Taiga Manager believed him. All he knew was that the two managers had arranged a friendly match, right after the Kanto Tournament.

Taiga Manager hoped that Inajitsu would go all out at that time, and Coach Kunimoto agreed. So, the two teams would still play a game, interesting, interesting.

The supporters of Inajitsu didn't want to criticize the players, after all, it was all Coach Kunimoto's fault. And Coach Kunimoto was highly respected, so they couldn't scold him either. In the end, they could only encourage the players, hoping that Inajitsu could win the Summer Tournament and advance to Koshien.

Not long after Inajitsu's Kanto Tournament journey ended, it was Golden Week, the time to arrange friendly matches everywhere for the upcoming Summer Tournament.

That night, Tadano Itsuki was still accompanying Su Qing for extra training, but Su Qing thought it should be the other way around. It was clearly him accompanying Little Tada for extra training, but because he was obviously much stronger, everyone thought that Su Qing was dragging Tadano Itsuki to practice pitching with him.

After the two first-string regulars heard this rumor, they became a little restless. Harada was a little better; he shared a room with Su Qing and knew a little about the situation. Yamagami directly pulled Su Qing to practice pitching. After all, there was no reason to let the ace pitcher find a second-string catcher to practice pitching.

To this, Su Qing could only say that Yamagami had completely misunderstood. He was helping Tada practice batting, not looking for him to practice pitching!

"You have a game this weekend, right?"

"Yes, against Sosei."

"Good luck! I'll be there to watch your game."

"Eh, I remember Su-kun, you also have a game."

"Eh! How come I don't know?!"

"The first string seems to be traveling to play a friendly match, didn't you know, senior?"

Su Qing shook his head blankly. He had been entangled with Narumiya Mei these days, adjusting his co-orbit rate. Thanks to the SC System, Su Qing had always found the important reason for Narumiya Mei's unstable start.

Narumiya Mei's pitching at the start was so erratic, the release point of each ball was different, not to mention the initial trajectory of the fastball and changeup.

After a period of time at the start, Narumiya Mei's pitching became much more stable, but the co-orbit rate of the fastball and changeup was still difficult to achieve consistently. In Su Qing's opinion, this couldn't deceive the batter.

After all, isn't this equivalent to blatantly telling the batter that I'm throwing a changeup? So, in the following days, Su Qing transformed into a pitching coach, watching Narumiya Mei pitch, and immediately correcting him as soon as he found something wrong.

Currently, it had achieved initial results. At least the release point had stabilized, and the co-orbit rate of the fastball and changeup still needed to be slowly refined. Su Qing was actually quite looking forward to the official practice match, because he really wanted to know if his training had been effective, and if Narumiya Mei was still unstable at the start.

If Narumiya Mei's weakness of being unstable at the start disappears, wouldn't he be invincible in Diamond no Ace? After all, scoring off Narumiya Mei in the later innings is as difficult as ascending to heaven. He couldn't help but want to see the Seido batters helpless against Narumiya Mei.

Oh right, the information he asked Harada to investigate also had results. That outfielder who suddenly appeared from Seido was indeed his nemesis, Chen Xin!

Moreover, Seido's former main catcher had miraculously recovered and was now able to play in games.

If this wasn't Chen Xin's doing, Su Qing would never believe it!

If it's Chen Xin, Narumiya Mei still has a chance of losing to him. No, he has to further strengthen Narumiya Mei, and his straight ball has to be changed! Throwing such a straight ball is just giving Chen Xin a home run!

Also, with the help of Su Qing's luxurious nutritional meals, Su Qing and Narumiya Mei both grew one centimeter taller! Narumiya Mei was very dissatisfied with this! Why does Su Qing grow when he grows! Letting Su Qing always be one centimeter taller than him is really annoying!

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