Chapter 180: The Offensive Resumes!

Two outs, no one on base. Miyuki's perfect throw tagged out the Seibo High School leadoff batter. A pitch speed exceeding 140 km/h made the Seido fans at the stadium go wild with cheers, as if they'd been injected with adrenaline. See that? That's our catcher, and he's got a laser arm too!

Hey!

Huangqian Yangyi gave Miyuki a thumbs-up, then saw the guy grinning foolishly with his teeth bared.

Soon, the second batter for Seibo stepped into the Batter's Box.

In a situation the opponent completely failed to anticipate, Miyuki called for a Changeup on the very first pitch. Because the batter was wary of Huangqian Yangyi's high-speed fastball, he swung his bat hard and missed completely.

A Changeup on the first pitch! The batter turned his head to look at Miyuki. The smile on the opponent's face seemed extremely mocking to the batter. Damn brat! The Pitcher is like this, and the Catcher is like this too!

The batter felt some resentment; why did two such formidable people go to Seido? It would have been so much better if they had come to Seibo.

After complaining a little in his heart, the batter immediately composed himself and prepared to hit.

Whoosh!

The second pitch flew in, the batter swung, Bang!

The bat caught the edge of the baseball and hit it Jianjie.

Ho, not bad, Miyuki sighed inwardly. Huangqian Yangyi had accurately thrown this ball to the spot he wanted when he was thirsty. Although the speed had slowed down, the trajectory was very tricky. To be followed even then, it could only mean that Seibo's batting lineup was truly not just a name.

145. Huangqian Yangyi glanced at the speed gun and then turned to look at Manager Kataoka. Sure enough, Manager Kataoka was right; after showing the Changeup, even if he intentionally lowered the speed of his Fastball, it was still very difficult for the opponent to hit it well.

Next, it would depend on the performance of the defense behind him. Unless he encountered a situation where he had to crank up the speed, Huangqian Yangyi did not intend to throw pitches near 150 km/h again; that was too exhausting.

For the third pitch, Huangqian Yangyi threw a Slider toward the outside corner. The eerie arc prevented the batter from finding the hitting point, leading to a swing and a miss. The batter was out.

The game reached the bottom of the 6th inning. Seibo made a substitution: the Pitcher Zhongyue Youtai moved to Left Fielder, and Seibo's second-year Pitcher Katsuyama Kotaro stood on the Pitcher's Mound.

This was a Pitcher who mastered multiple pitch types. His top speed was 140 km/h, which didn't count as fast, but after watching the opponent's game footage, Huangqian Yangyi always felt that this person's style was very similar to that silly Sawamura Eijun.

Of course, this person's pitching was not as distinctive as Sawamura's.

The 9th Batter, Miyuki, stood in the Batter's Box. The opponent used three completely different pitch types in a row to easily Strikeout Miyuki.

"You guy, you just can't get it up when there's no one on base, right?" Huangqian Yangyi teased.

Miyuki smiled: "It can't be helped. The opponent has too many pitch types; the difficulty of selecting the ball is too great."

"Heh, what's there to select? When the ball comes, just look closely and swing," Huangqian Yangyi said.

Miyuki felt helpless. This guy thought everyone possessed such terrifying dynamic vision as he did.

Back at school, they had once done a test. They used pens of different colors to draw a small circle on a baseball, then had Nanjo Taishi throw the baseball. They had to call out the color of the baseball while it was in flight. As a result, the freak Huangqian Yangyi didn't get a single one wrong. It was truly absurd!

On the field, just as the two were chatting, Zhitian Jiangtai selected a Curveball after two strikes, hit it, and successfully reached base.

The opportunity had arrived!

The Seido crowd leaned over the railing one after another, shouting for Kominato Ryosuke, who had stepped into the Batter's Box, to do his best.

Kominato Ryosuke took a deep breath. This style of not having fast speed and resolving batters with multi-pitch variations was exactly what he liked.

Come to think of it, Huangqian Yangyi's type was actually the one he disliked the most: fast speed, high spin rate, and heavy ball quality. With his physique and strength, it could be said to be very, very difficult to hit well.

Katsuyama Kotaro rotated the baseball in his hand. Although the batter opposite didn't look like much of a threat, having understood Kominato Ryosuke's hitting style, he knew that it was absolutely impossible to easily resolve the opponent with his pitching.

The collision between the two sides began quickly. For the first pitch, Kominato Ryosuke did not swing; it was a Slider.

Then the second pitch was a Two-seam Fastball. Kominato Ryosuke still did not swing, but his eyes became sharp.

When Katsuyama Kotaro threw the third pitch, Kominato Ryosuke finally swung his bat. Bang! A Cutter flying diagonally toward his chest was hit by Kominato Ryosuke toward the left, passing through the Third Base defense.

Dropping his bat, Kominato Ryosuke rushed toward First Base, and the runner Zhitian Jiangtai also ran toward Second Base.

One out, runners on First and Second Base. Seido once again welcomed a good opportunity to score.

The 3rd Batter, Yuki Tetsuya, stood in the Batter's Box. He carried his bat steadily on his shoulder; just standing there put great pressure on the Pitcher.

Although he had only hit one Home Run since the start of Koshien, his Extra-base Hits to the outfield were second to none. No Pitcher dared to show any relaxation when facing him.

The Catcher patted his glove and immediately gave the signal: a low, outside Cutter, and the required landing spot was extremely demanding.

Katsuyama Kotaro nodded and slowed his breathing to concentrate. His control was decent, but even he wouldn't dare say he could definitely throw it into such a precise location.

Whoosh!

The baseball flew out. Yuki Tetsuya's arms moved slightly and then stopped.

Pop!

"Ball!"

The baseball flew outside the strike zone. Katsuyama Kotaro had missed with this pitch.

Tsk!

Katsuyama Kotaro frowned, but he didn't care too much. It was normal for errors to occur at such a landing spot. Facing Seido's cleanup lineup, it would be absolutely impossible without bringing out this kind of desperate spirit.

The Seibo Catcher clearly thought the same. After returning the baseball, he immediately called for a pitch in the same location, only this time it was a High-speed Slider.

As long as this ball was thrown in, the next pitch would be a low, inside Sinker. It would definitely work then!

Soon, the baseball flew out. Seeing the trajectory of this ball, the Catcher secretly shouted "Yoshi" in his heart.

Bang!

The pitch-black bat swept past the Catcher's eyes. The thickest part of the bat accurately and flawlessly blasted the baseball away after it entered the Home Plate.

The baseball flew toward the sky. Seibo's Right Fielder kept running backward, turning his head from time to time to confirm the position of the baseball. However, he could only watch helplessly as the baseball flew over his head and dropped into the corner of the stadium!

A bit of a pity; if it had been a little higher, it would have been a three-run Home Run.

"Jiecheng!!"

The Seido fans cheered to their hearts' content. Bases loaded! Next was the 4th Batter, Dong Qingguo. Even if Dong Qingguo were unfortunately out, there was still Huangqian Yangyi behind him. They didn't believe that this Seibo Pitcher had the ability to face these two with the bases loaded and still not give up a single run.