In the second half of the seventh inning, Nanami remained strong. He successfully solved the entire Seidou bottom lineup including Chris.
Furuya's blind cannon didn't play a big role and was directly struck Out.
It is said that with such a result, Hoshiryu should be very satisfied.
But the truth is the exact opposite.
In the dugout of Hoshiryu High School, Coach Hosho Ryuki's face twisted into a grimace that could sour milk.
"How many balls have he thrown?"
He turned to the assistant coach beside him.
This is a question with many questions inside, but the assistant coach knows what it means. Holding the pen, he hesitated.
"107 balls!"
This number is the number of pitches Nanami Haruka has pitched so far.
Hosho Ryuki's face became even more ugly.
Although the result was similar to what he had expected, after hearing it, he couldn't help but sigh.
'This is bad!'
'Nanami's peak state has clearly surpassed…'
'His collapse is only a matter of time.'
The game continues without care about anyone's personal will.
In the first half of the eighth inning, Hoshiryu attacked.
"Fifth Batter, first baseman, Matsumoto-kun."
Almost all of Hoshiryu's lineups are made up of the star players of Nagano.
In the previous games, their lineup was very strong and the score was terrifying. The strange thing is that they met Seidou High School today, but their lineup was completely misfiring.
If the opponent is the Maou Sawamura Eijun, then it is reasonable.
The team that played against Seidou High School before, as long as Sawamura Eijun stood on the mound, didn't do well either.
The media's verdict isn't that they lack strength; rather, it's that their opponent is exceptionally formidable!
But this is obviously not the case in today's game. The pitcher sent by Seidou High School is not the Maou Sawamura Eijun, but the substitute Tanpa Koichiro and the first-year rookie Furuya Satoru.
Even so, the players from Hoshiryu High School did not have any good performances in the game.
This made the media workers and professional scouts on the scene agree.
Seidou High School is stronger than they thought!
Not just an Ace, who is tough. The entire pitching squad is terrifyingly strong.
In the future, when other teams encounter Seidou High School, they will never dare to practice only for Sawamura Eijun.
For professionals, it is not difficult to understand the absence of Hoshiryu's targeted attack.
They obviously did not do research on the other pitchers.
As long as the Coaches of Hoshiryu are not fools, the only reasonable explanation is that they have only studied strategies against Sawamura before.
'It is a lesson to be learned!'
'When we play against Seidou High School again, we must never do that…'
"STRIKE!"
"STRIKE!"
"STRIKE BATTER OUT!!!"
In Hoshiryu High School, Matsumoto, who was second only to Nanami, was struck Out with three Straight balls.
After returning to the rest area, he looked at his Coach with a resentful expression.
"The ball didn't float at all, okay?"
When he entered the field, he listened to the words of Coach Hosho and aimed a ball above the Straight ball, and swung his bat.
As a result, not a single ball was hit.
Hosho Ryuki's face was extremely stiff.
Furuya Satoru is more troublesome than he expected.
When facing Matsumoto, he obviously changed his previous pitching method.
This can be seen from the ball speed of the electronic display.
149 kilometers!(93~)
150 km/h!
148.5 km/h! (92 mph)
Although the third ball's speed is also very fast, it is not worth mentioning compared to the speed of the ball before Furuya.
The speed of the ball dropped by at least one level, with an average of two or three kilometers.
Paying such a large price, of course, is not without benefits. Furuya's balls were all concentrated in the lower strike zone.
Moreover, the Straight ball did not float!
This is so deadly that Matsumoto, who is very skilled in batting, missed three consecutive swings.
"Is this guy really the third pitcher of Seidou High School?"
Hosho Ryuki stupidly looked at Furuya on the pitcher's mound, then turned his head and looked at the rest area of Seidou High School with resentment on his face.
'This is so luxurious!'
Not to mention Tanpa Koichiro, who is the substitute for the Ace, even Furuya has the strength to be the Ace in a Famous High School.
And he's still in the first year, and in the next two years, there will be more progress.
These two guys are actually in Seidou High School. This in itself is enviable enough, not to mention that they also have Ace Sawamura Eijun.
If Coach Kataoka could understand the meaning in Hosho Ryuyi's eyes, then he would definitely know what envy, jealousy, and hatred mean.
After Matsumoto, the batter was Hosho Okuchi.
"STRIKE!"
"STRIKE!"
"STRIKE BATTER OUT!!!"
In exactly the same way as Matsumoto, Okuchi, who had a very good batting strength, was also struck Out.
150 km/h fastballs, he can barely keep up with the timing. Right now, it is difficult to distinguish whether the ball is floating or not!
Looking at Furuya Satoru on the pitcher's mound in shock, Okuchi gave a wry smile.
The difference is too obvious!
Not only the players from Hoshiryu High School were shocked, but the players from Seidou High School were also a little dumbfounded.
At the catcher position, Chris was surprised.
He had also paired with Furuya before, and he knew very well about Furuya's strength.
In his memory, it was the first time that Furuya pitched the ball so accurately.
If Chris wants a high ball, he will have a high ball, and if Chris wants a low ball, he will have a low ball!
This allows him to have room to play when he is making the call.
'Not bad at all!'
Chris sees through the ball that the opponent wants to aim at, and then Furuya throws the ball to solve the opponent.
It is necessary to cooperate with each other tacitly, and it is pleasing to the eyes.
"STRIKE!"
The Seventh Batter, Hattori.
At the beginning, he didn't catch up with Furuya's ball.
The speed of the ball is too fast. If there is no preparation in advance, they will have to go through at least two rounds of adaptation before they can accurately catch up with Furuya's ball.
Realizing that he had no choice at all, after hitting Furuya Satoru's ball, Hattori didn't hesitate and chose a bunt.
Ping!
After the white ball was touched, it bounced high.
The look of shock on Hattori's face was hard to hide.
'Too heavy!'
The two hands seemed to be pressed by a bulldozer, and there was no way to flexibly unload the force of the ball.
The baseball hit the bat, bounced high, and landed directly in the third baseman's Mitt.
"OUT!"
Three Outs, offense and defense exchange.
"Furuya!"
"Furuya!!!"
In the stands, the audience who originally supported Seidou High School was completely boiling right now.
They called out Furuya's name in unison.
Right now, Sawamura had also returned to the rest area.
They're going to prepare for the eighth-inning offense.
…