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Diamond no Ace: Coach, I Want to Be a Batter, Not a Pitcher!

Chapter 172: The Man Who Got Outs Complains About Everyone Else Striking Out · Nov 12, 2026

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151 Chapter 151: Seido’s Specialty — Brothers Home Run 2026-11-12
152 Chapter 152: The Match Ends — New Record 2026-11-12
153 Chapter 153: Before the Finals! Slider Evolution 2026-11-12
154 Chapter 154: The Showdown Before the Finals 2026-11-12
155 Chapter 155: The Post-Finals Debriefing Meeting 2026-11-12
156 Chapter 156: The Strategies of Both Sides 2026-11-12
157 Chapter 157: The Legend of Seido 2026-11-12
158 Chapter 158: The Shock of the Fatty Senior 2026-11-12
159 Chapter 159: Head-On Confrontation! Overwhelming Suppression 2026-11-12
160 Chapter 160: Don’t Be Selfish! Let’s Shoulder This Together 2026-11-12
161 Chapter 161: The Final! Seido vs. Inashiro 2026-11-12
162 Chapter 162: King vs. King: A Fiery Opening 2026-11-12
163 Chapter 163: Mutual Recognition 2026-11-12
164 Chapter 164: Seido’s Relentless Offense! Inashiro Under Pressure! 2026-11-12
165 Chapter 165: Last Year’s Grudge! An Eye for an Eye! 2026-11-12
166 Chapter 166: A 150 km/h Two-Seam! A Shocking Opening 2026-11-12
167 Chapter 167: An Overwhelming Strikeout!!! 2026-11-12
168 Chapter 168: The Shock of the Cutter! Shirakawa’s Fury 2026-11-12
169 Chapter 169: Cutter Establishes Authority! Three Consecutive Strikeouts to Open the Game 2026-11-12
170 Chapter 170: Complaints from Two Catchers 2026-11-12
171 Chapter 171: Inashiro’s Cleanup Batter 2026-11-12
172 Chapter 172: The Man Who Got Outs Complains About Everyone Else Striking Out 2026-11-12
173 Chapter 173: Untitled 2026-11-12
174 Chapter 174: The Resolve Behind a Single Hit 2026-11-12
175 Chapter 175: Defensive Mistake 2026-11-12
176 Chapter 176: Inashiro’s Counterattack 2026-11-12
177 Chapter 177: A Unique Approach 2026-11-12
178 Chapter 178: A Chain of Mistakes 2026-11-12
179 Chapter 179: Shirakawa’s Resentment 2026-11-12
180 Chapter 180: Untitled 2026-11-12
181 Chapter 181: Kominato Leaves the Game Due to Injury 2026-11-12
182 Chapter 182: The Little Brother Opens His Eyes! 2026-11-12
183 Chapter 183: The Best Way to Motivate Furuya 2026-11-12
184 Chapter 184: A Friendly Reminder 2026-11-12
185 Chapter 185: Narumiya Mei’s Winning Pitch 2026-11-12
186 Chapter 186: Narumiya’s Evolution 2026-11-12
187 Chapter 187: The Fallen Emperor Refuses to Yield 2026-11-12
188 Chapter 188: Inashiro’s Captain 2026-11-12
189 Chapter 189: Three-Pitch Strikeout — Narumiya Mei 2026-11-12
190 Chapter 190: Inashiro’s Counterattack 2026-11-12
191 Chapter 191: Using the Rules to His Advantage 2026-11-12
192 Chapter 192: Gradually Unsealing 2026-11-12
193 Chapter 193: The Two Aces Dominate 2026-11-12
194 Chapter 194: The Final Inning 2026-11-12
195 Chapter 195: The Quick Forkball Shocks the Entire Stadium! 2026-11-12
196 Chapter 196: Happy Graduation 2026-11-12
197 Chapter 197: Summer Continues 2026-11-12
198 Chapter 198: The Silent Narumiya Mei 2026-11-12
199 Chapter 199: Gold-Level Home Run 2026-11-12
200 Chapter 200: The Eve of the Koshien Battle 2026-11-12

”A direct showdown against the cleanup batter… and he suppressed him completely.”

”That takes guts.”

”And skill.”

Azuma Kiyokuni grinned as he looked toward the mound.

”If you’d had this kind of courage back then, we might’ve won three straight Koshien championships,” Nitta mocked from the side.

”Oh please,” Uesugi shot back immediately. ”If you’d had Ushijima’s velocity, we probably would’ve conquered the entire universe already.”

The crowd burst into laughter.

At the same time, cheers thundered throughout the stadium.

Ushijima Wakatoshi striking out Inashiro’s cleanup batter in only three pitches had completely ignited Seido’s supporters.

”What the hell are you doing, cleanup batter?!”

After seeing Harada strike out, Narumiya Mei instantly ran over to mock him without mercy.

Harada’s expression darkened.

He had already been struck out.

Now he still had to deal with this brat rubbing salt in the wound.

”Sorry about that, Ace,” Harada snapped back irritably.

Narumiya Mei stood in the batter’s box with the expression of a mischievous child staring challengingly at Ushijima on the mound.

Meanwhile, Ushijima looked back at him with the calm, disdainful gaze of an untamed wild beast.

Narumiya puffed his cheeks unhappily, clearly unconvinced.

Ushijima merely narrowed his eyes calmly.

Even the home plate umpire couldn’t help muttering inwardly:

”They really are just two troublesome brats…”

”Four straight strikeouts already. Your ace is terrifying, Miyuki.”

”Well, hahaha~ thanks for the compliment.”

Miyuki laughed proudly from behind the plate.

Narumiya adjusted his stance.

Clearly, he was waiting for Ushijima’s inside Cutter.

But on the very first pitch—

Ushijima chose the exact opposite.

Whoosh!

The baseball flew toward the plate—

Then suddenly broke away toward the outside corner.

”What?! Shootball?!”

Narumiya hurriedly swung, but completely missed.

THWACK!

Miyuki caught the pitch cleanly before grinning at Narumiya.

”An eye for an eye.”

”Last inning, I was waiting for your changeup and you used a forkball instead.”

”So this inning, since you were waiting for the inside Cutter…”

”We gave you an outside Shootball.”

”Damn you!”

Narumiya glared furiously at Miyuki.

”Haha~”

Miyuki tossed the ball back happily.

Narumiya’s irritation visibly increased.

”Damn it…”

”First-years should act like first-years!”

He angrily waited for the next pitch.

But Ushijima showed absolutely no hesitation.

The second pitch exploded out of his hand.

Seeing another fastball approaching the zone, Narumiya swung aggressively once more.

But again—

The ball suddenly drifted away at the last second.

THWACK!

The Shootball buried itself perfectly into Miyuki’s mitt.

”DAMN IT!! Another Shootball?!”

Two consecutive outside Shootballs.

Narumiya was furious.

He couldn’t touch the ball at all.

The audience’s cheers only grew louder after seeing Narumiya completely toyed with.

Even Seido’s fielders were watching the duel with excitement.

Then came the third pitch.

Ushijima calmly delivered the ball while staring directly at the visibly irritated Narumiya Mei.

WHOOSH!!

The baseball screamed toward the inside corner at terrifying speed.

”It’s here! Cutter!!”

Narumiya’s eyes lit up instantly.

Finally!

The pitch he had been waiting for!

He swung happily and aggressively.

But at the last moment—

The ball didn’t cut downward like a Cutter.

Instead, it subtly shifted differently across the strike zone.

Two-Seam Fastball.

Because Narumiya had adjusted his swing path for a Cutter’s downward break, his bat struck underneath the baseball.

Clang!

The ball shot high into the air.

Without even stepping off the mound, Ushijima casually raised his glove—

And caught the pop fly cleanly.

”Out!”

The umpire’s call echoed through the stadium.

Narumiya immediately stomped off the field angrily like a spoiled child throwing a tantrum.

”Damn it!”

”They didn’t throw the Cutter!”

”They switched to a Two-Seamer instead!”

Narumiya was genuinely furious.

After all—

When Ushijima faced him earlier, Ushijima had gotten on base and even scored.

But now?

Narumiya couldn’t even reach first.

Compared side by side, it made him feel completely inferior.

And worst of all—

Ushijima had dealt with him effortlessly in only three pitches.

”USHIJIMA!!”

”KEEP IT UP!!”

The female manager cheered excitedly from the stands.

”Go! Go! Go, Ushijima!!”

The Seido baseball club members shouted in unison.

But Ushijima himself remained completely calm.

Inashiro’s sixth batter, Yamaoka Riku, stepped into the box.

No mercy.

Inside pitch.

Outside pitch.

Two quick strikes.

Then—

A sharp inside Two-Seamer.

Swing and miss.

”Strike three!”

”Another three-pitch strikeout!! Ushijima strikes out Inashiro’s sixth batter!”

The commentators were practically shouting from excitement.

”This is already his fifth strikeout of the game!”

The entire stadium erupted once more.

Meanwhile, the Inashiro supporters had gone completely silent.

Six batters across two innings—

And not a single one had reached base.

How was this even possible?

Back in the Inashiro dugout, Narumiya Mei sat there wearing his glove while acting like an angry child.

”What the hell are you guys doing?!”

”Turns out I’m the only one who didn’t strike out!”

His complaint instantly silenced the others.

Carlos.

Shirakawa.

Yoshizawa.

Harada.

Yamaoka.

All five of them awkwardly looked away after being called out.

Because Narumiya technically wasn’t wrong.

Out of Inashiro’s first six batters—

He was the only one who hadn’t struck out.

The other five had all gone down swinging.

And the worst part?

They had all confidently mocked Seido beforehand.

”This is the finals, you know?”

”Can you all take this seriously already?!”

Narumiya’s childish rant left everyone speechless.

They wanted to argue back.

But they couldn’t.

After all… they really had struck out.

Still—

The others couldn’t help thinking the exact same thing internally:

”How does a guy who got retired on a pop fly have the nerve to lecture people about getting out?!”

At the end of two innings, the scoreboard read:

Seido: 2

Inashiro: 0

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