In the player area, seeing their batter's home run being confiscated, the Kurashiki Commerce players, who had begun to raise their arms high in celebration, instantly fell silent.
Even in professional games, such a high-difficulty catch is very rare; on the Koshien field, it's something that may not be seen for years — yet their team happened to be the unlucky one; this inevitably made the Kurashiki Commerce players lament the unfairness of the gods.
However happy and joyful they were before, now they were equally deflated — worsening the situation was the fact that after this brilliant catch, the situation on the field immediately turned into 2 outs, with no one on base, which filled the Kurashiki Commerce players with despair, the real feeling of losing the first round becoming increasingly strong...
