"This is payback. Let's start by saying hello with this pitch!!
No need to aim for the Strike Zone. A bad ball will do!"
"You understand it pretty well, don't you?!" Seeing Qian's Signals, Narumiya immediately brightened up!
"Just don't try to throw it into the Strike Zone and end up serving him an easy pitch!" Qian smiled slightly, joking to himself.
"No one knows better than I do how strong Tetsu-san is!
Once he gets to college, he'll be able to do even more strength training. One slip-up could cost us dearly!
Even though the outfield is incredibly reassuring today, I can't cause trouble for Sendou and Carlo!!"
"Come on!"
"Pff!"
"Inside corner, straight across the diagonal!!"
"Whoosh!"
"Smack!"
"Strike!!"
"Boom!!" Captain Tetsu was fired up!
And Qian... had been struck by lightning again...
"All right!!" Narumiya Mei couldn't help roaring!!
"Nothing we can do if it just happened to land there!!" Over at Meishin's bench, senior Iguchi spoke up.
A pitch that even Captain Tetsu couldn't swing at after being turned around like that was luck to begin with. And Qian had caught it so cleanly, without his glove moving at all, so naturally the umpire called it a strike!
"The second pitch is the opposite—low and outside!
Even if the batter noticed it to some extent, that last pitch should have affected his timing, right?" Since Qian had received such a high-quality fastball, it would have been a waste not to make use of it.
"Pff!"
"Whoosh!"
"Tap!"
"Foul!!"
"Third pitch!
A Slider that enters the Strike Zone horizontally from outside it!!"
"Pff!"
"Whoosh!"
"Tap!"
"Second baseman!!"
"Smack!"
"Out!"
The defensive lineup of this Tokyo Selection team was truly luxurious.
Though they had not been quite as famous before, the Second Basemen selected this time were all