Opportunity

"Keeping up with Sanada-san's pitches swing after swing had already been incredibly difficult for him!

Let's settle this here!"

To outsiders, the exchange of Signals looked no different from before, but they were actually preparing to put an end to this at-bat.

"Pff!"

"Whoosh!"

"Outside!!" Sendou had already hit quite a few tricky Inside Corner Balls. Since they were pitches that a "beginner" like Sendou supposedly could not distinguish as balls or strikes, he had swung at every one.

After all that effort, he had finally seen an outside pitch.

"Hm?"

"Crack!!"

"It dropped?

Was that the Two-Seam Fastball?" Sendou, who had already tossed aside his bat and instinctively started sprinting for the base, had only that thought in his mind.

Several of Seidou's core batters had previously been retired or thrown off by that pitch.

"He hit it!

Second baseman Masuda is chasing it!!"

"Damn it!

Batters who can wait until the very last moment to swing really are troublesome!

And that monster swung even later than Raichi!!!" Akiba gritted his teeth inwardly.

"Safe!!"

"The leadoff batter got on base!!

Sanada's Two-Seam Fastball was hit!!"

"All right!!"

"Nice batting, Sendou!!"

"That was amazing!!"

"Nice!

Now they'll wonder whether that pitch has been figured out, so they won't dare use it so easily as their winning pitch!

And the morale that had dropped because of me has been brought right back up!!" Miyuki thought.

Miyuki had been deeply guilty and worried about the team's condition because his batting results had been poor until now.

Seeing Sendou step up at this moment made him breathe a sigh of relief as well.

Though this hit was only an Infield Hit, it had tremendous significance for the team because it had connected with Sanada's current winning ball.

"Fifth batter! First baseman Maezono-kun!"