"Guanglai, Guanglai—stop daydreaming, it's your turn to play!"
Until the call of his teammates reached his ears, Lin Guanglai broke free from his thoughts and refocused his attention on the field.
After six innings, both Waseda Industries' Izumi Minoru and Osaka Tsubaki's Nishikawa Koji seemed to have a mental connection. They both chose, almost synchronously, to replace their starting pitchers—the difference being that Fujinami Jintaro was directly substituted by the third-year Osaka Tsubaki player Kitano Koudai; whereas Lin Guanglai was placed by Izumi Minoru to the right field position.
Once the two powerful starting pitchers were off the field, the situation suddenly changed dramatically—this clash between the two prestigious teams from Kantou and Kansai was shifting from a nerve-wracking but somewhat monotonous pitching duel to an all-out offensive battle.
