Ping!
"Shirazu is up!!"
"Two outs, Runners on First and Third!!"
"As expected of the man batting ahead of the cleanup hitter!!"
After Kuramochi got on base, though Kominato was fooled by a shootball and retired, Shirazu-senpai withstood the pressure and reached base.
And now, the showdown that would decide Hakuryu's fate in this game had finally arrived!
"Go, Sendou!!"
"The stage is set!!"
"Hit it!!"
"Give them the finishing blow!!"
"Seal the win right here!!"
"Decide the game here!!"
"Sendou!!"
"Sendou!"
The entire stadium ignited at once. Though this was Hakuryu's home field, not everyone who had come to watch was a Hakuryu fan.
True powerhouses never lacked admirers and followers!!
"How will Hakuryu choose to handle this?
Even though the cleanup hitter is up with runners on first and third, there are already two outs!!"
"Will they go for the bases-loaded strategy?"
"They definitely have to go for a decisive victory here, right?
Miyuki, who's up next, is a terrifying batter too!!
Facing him with bases loaded wouldn't be much different anyway!!"
"That's true!"
The spectators at the sidelines discussed it fervently. No matter how much they guessed, though, it would be hard to know what Hakuryu intended until the very end.
Those saying they should go for a decisive victory here had not considered that, if Sendou got a hit, they might still have a crowd of runners on base when they faced Miyuki.
Though they could still choose to intentionally walk him and load the bases at that point!
But whether such repeated avoidance would affect the players mentally was something the coaching staff had to think through carefully!!
Ordinary spectators just blurted out their guesses. Even if their reasoning had some merit, it was enough to merely listen to them!
"Our choice is no different