The distance from the pitcher's mound to home plate is 18.44 meters. Calculating by the speed of the ace pitcher of the Koshien champion team, it takes less than half a second for a baseball to cover this distance.
Because of this, when the baseball shot out from Lin Guanglai's hand on the pitcher's mound, flying directly into Uesugi Yasuyuki's glove behind home plate, the entire audience at Koshien couldn't react to what had just happened on the field for a moment.
But this didn't last long. First, one person reacted, then two, ten, hundreds, thousands... in the end, tens of thousands of spectators in Koshien Stadium erupted into a huge cheer, the resulting wave of sound instantly enveloping this historic ballpark.
On the field, the Waseda Jitsugyo players, who were taut and on guard just a second ago, were overwhelmed by a kind of heartfelt, genuine ecstasy the moment they saw the baseball enter the glove.
