Tetsu was dashing for the home plate, and Renji hurriedly asked for the ball.
The runner and the ball arrived at the home plate almost at the same time.
In the catcher's position, Renji's body couldn't help trembling.
After assigning a Straight ball to Hongou, Isashiki smashed it directly, and Renji regrets his carelessness!
In this Koshien competition, Isashiki did not seem to have any outstanding performances except for his mistakes. Before they knew it, they regarded Isashiki as a player in the second echelon of Seidou.
It becomes a matter of course to deal with him with a Straight ball.
But in fact, he not only occupy the position of the cleanup, but also have the strength to match his position.
Some things are irresistible like this. It is like the line-up of Seidou High School. On the surface, it seems that there are no one that need special attention except for Sawamura Eijun and Yuuki Tetsuya.
The real situation is of course not like this. In Seidou High School, the hit rate of Sawamura Eijun and Yuuki Tetsuya is naturally terrifyingly high, but that doesn't mean that other people's hit rate is really low.
In fact, the entire lineup of Seidou is very scary, in the data they collected before, the vast majority of Seidou High School Batters maintained a 30-40% hit rate.
This is only their data in Koshien. There was no way to give accurate statistics on the data of the games in Tokyo from the beginning. Once the statistics were calculated, it would be even more scary.
But even so, in the entire Seidou High School, it seems that everyone except Sakai has at least a 30% on-base rate.
This data is not unremarkable, on the contrary, in other teams, about 30% hit rate can be treated as a strong batter.
The reason why Seidou's batters are not so conspicuous is not because they are weak.
The most important reason is that the data of Sawamura Eijun and Yuuki Tetsuya are too dazzling. Compared with the data of these two people, the data of other Batters is naturally a bit lackluster.
So everyone is habitually negligent and less wary of other Batters, which leads to such an embarrassing situation.
In an instant, with a SNAP that echoed like a theatrical slap, they jolted awake. It was a shock, their opponent was not just formidable, but astonishingly dominant.
The reason why they were able to fight evenly with Seidou before was not because of how strong they were, but because Seidou was playing Komadai's game of a pitching duel, and they were confident they would win.
Were it not for Komadai's sufficient strength and a bit of fortune, they might have found themselves trailing by a run or two.
'We are done!'
The annoyance gnawed at Renji's heart like a devil.
He realized that because of this carelessness of his own, it is likely to cause irreversible results.
If Seidou High School really scored in this inning, then this game is likely to have no extra innings.
He is not a pessimistic person, but a fact in front of him.
Thinking of the steel forged defense of Seidou High School, and of Sawamura Eijun's perfect and impeccable pitching.
Renji could see their chances of winning getting lower and lower.
In his mind, he couldn't even imagine the picture of the lower line hitting Sawamura Eijun's pitching.
Seeing Yuuki running to home plate, Renji's inner despair boiled to a climax.
Just like the running instructor at Seidou High School on the side of third base, Renji is also a person who is very proficient in calculations.
Renji thought of everything that Miyauchi, the running instructor of Seidou, could think of, and he and Miyauchi came to the same conclusion.
If Seidou High School really took the risk of stealing home plate, they were at least 70% sure that they would take this point.
Unless the passing speed is accelerated, and the second baseman doesn't make any mistakes when passing the ball.
They only have a 30% chance of blocking Yuuki.
Fortune seemed to have favored Komadai Fujimaki High School excessively in the past, but in this defining moment, it appears to have realigned its whimsical nature with a more ordinary equilibrium.
The players at Komadai Fujimaki High School didn't make too many mistakes, and at the same time they didn't play at a superhuman level.
So by the time, Renji caught the ball, Yuuki had already slid, and his hand was firmly on the plate.
Renji watched helplessly as the Yuuki approached home plate step by step. And he himself, even if he got the ball, was too late to touch and kill.
"SAAAAFE!"
"YOSHIAAAA!!!!" Isashiki roared on the second base with his head toward the sky.
"YEAH!!!" Yuuki the ever so calm and composed Captain was celebrating with a loud voice and fist bumped.
"Jun-san!!"
"Jun-san!!"
"Tetsu-san!!"
"Captain!"
"Beard-senpai!!"
"Nice batting!!"
The entire dugout of Seidou was shouting Yuuki's and Isashiki's names.
Yuuki made a fist toward Miyauchi on the third base instructor area. Miyauchi reciprocated with a puffed chest and unending steam from his nose.
He was happy and excited beyond measure, his bet was right and it brought the Championship to his team!
At the moment the entire Koshien 70,000 fans stood up and applauded at the same time.
Some ardent fans even yelled.
"Safe!"
"Seidou score!"
The total score is 1:0!
Komadai Fujimaki High School, who had been holding for eight innings, dropped a point after making two consecutive Strikeouts in the first half of the ninth inning.
Also the first point of the game so far!
A 1:0 breakthrough is enough to determine the outcome of the game.
At the last moment, the two third-year seniors of Seidou High School joined forces to present a big gift to Sawamura Eijun.
In this way, he doesn't need to think about the extra game, as long as he wholeheartedly solves the bottom lineup of Komadai Fujimaki High School and does not let them score.
Then he will be the Winning Pitcher of Koshien!
"Seidou!"
"Seidou!!"
"Yuuki!"
"Isashiki!!"
"Jun-san!!!"
"Isashiki!!"
After the applause, cheers for Seidou sounded one after another on the field, and the names of Yuuki and Isashiki especially Isashiki.
At this moment, he is the hero of the audience. Everyone will remember his loud and brave figure, and depending in his future performance, this figure will even stay in their memory for several years, decades, and maybe more.
The battle of the Koshien between Seidou High School and Komadai Fujimaki High School finally came to the closing act.
Seidou High School was the first to score, although this score was not particularly high, it could even be said to be too small to be worth mentioning.
But this is a crucial point. Without this point, Seidou High School will never become the National Champion.
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