Chapter 844 – Episode 830. 2027 ALCS. (2)

“Younghee! Hey Joohee! It’s here! Here!”

“Ah! Sister!”

“Hey! “I told you to call me Leah!”

Juhee brightly greeted Jia’s voice calling her. Next to her, Leah was getting angry at her Jia for calling her by her real name, but since it was always a scene when the two met, Joohee smiled slightly when she saw that.

The reason the three met at the baseball stadium was, of course, to watch a baseball game. Today’s game was Joohee’s boyfriend Wonho’s starting game, so Joohee flew all the way to New York with Leah in tow to watch the LA Dodgers’ game.

“Ha, I wasn’t making that promise. No, why should I watch this game?”

“Hey, you’re nice, sister. Let’s come see it together like this. And if Houston wins, we decided to come watch it together.”

“I thought the Red Sox would win. Hehe.”

Seeing Leah complaining, Juhee smiled again.

“Sister, the batter comes out every day anyway. “I may come out today and not come out now.”

I felt sorry for Leah, but it couldn’t be helped. Because today’s game could have been the end for the pitcher.

Moreover, until last year, Leah took her to see the Dodgers games a few times because she thought it would be too obvious to go out to a baseball stadium alone, so she actually didn’t feel that sorry.

Well, at that time, it was because I felt more comfortable with Leah than with the other members who liked to hang out with men.

Anyway, as I came to cheer on my boyfriend during the playoffs, I felt like I knew why Leah went to LA every fall.

It was truly exciting to support someone. Also, since he was an idol who always received support from fans, he knew very well how much strength that support gave to the recipient.

When I thought about it that way, I felt sorry to my fans for having a boyfriend, but I am now in my 7th year as an idol. Even if I was dating, I felt a little less guilty because it was a time when fans would smile and support me.

“Then you can see it here. Is it difficult to get it here? Even if I have money, I can’t get it.”

Is it really the sky room that Jia saved as she said? VIP room? Anyway, the room that Jia found looked quite nice.

“Thank you, Jia. How did you get it? “Even if I pay money, I can’t get it?”

“Heh. “I asked Meng Hao for a favor.”

“Thank you so much… But, don’t you see me here?”

“Uh? I decided to watch it with other girls… And you will be rooting for Houston.”

Joohee flinched slightly at the mention of sisters. It was because Meng Hao still couldn’t get used to dating so many women.

How is it that Meng-ho is friends with a straight-faced person like her boyfriend, Won-ho, and why is Jia’s older sister dating such a Meng-ho? .

She didn’t quite understand, but when she saw Jia’s bulging stomach, she felt sorry for thinking that way.

“Then! Have a good time!”

“… Huh! Sister! Have fun watching it too!”

Feeling sorry for her, he brightly greets Jia as she leaves. And Leah mutters next to Joohee.

“Ah… “Houston needs to come up.”

Seeing her muttering to her close friend Jia without even saying hello, it seemed like she was quite sincere.

“Of course, you too would like Wonho to win, right?”

“… Huh? Uh, whatever. I hope I win. Honestly, I think they will win if the Yankees come up.”

Joohee was a little annoyed by Leah’s words, but since Leah’s words were straight forward, she couldn’t think of anything to say in response.

As Leah said, the strongest team in the current major league was the New York Yankees. So much so that even Joohee, who has only played in the major league for one year, can easily understand that fact.

But Juhee knew.

Baseball is not a sport that goes by all means.

A sport where even a weak team can beat a strong team at any time. That was baseball. Joohee learned that fact while watching Wonho play baseball this season.

When Wonho was at his worst, the media always predicted Wonho’s defeat, but as time went by, Wonho showed signs of winning as if ridiculing the media’s predictions.

“Honestly, I was hoping the Red Sox would go up… If you have some trilling, you might win. “I guess it’s difficult in Houston, right?”

However, Leah, who watched baseball several years before him, seemed unaware of such a simple fact.

‘Hmph, you still don’t know baseball? Is it because I only support strong teams? Well, since Seungcheol oppa went to the majors, he kept winning…’

It wasn’t hard to understand because for the two years since Joo Seung-cheol, Leah’s boyfriend, went to the Dodgers, the winning team in the major league had always been Joo Seung-cheol’s LA Dodgers, but Joo Hee hoped that Leah had learned that simple fact through this game. I thought it would be nice if I realized it.

The game started with Joo-hee’s simple wish.

[… Gerrit Cole, who walks the leadoff hitter, Hamilton!]

“You saw it, didn’t you? “Houston can win?”

“Hey, I barely walked.”

Joohee got excited and touched Leah’s arm as she got on base through a walk in the top of the first inning. However, such fuss did not last long. The inning ended in vain as Altuve, the second batter, was called out, and Tucker, the third batter, hit the first pitch as soon as he came to bat, creating a double play.

“Juhee. “Baseball is not such an easy sport.”

“Sister! This didn’t happen because my sister didn’t support me. Cheer quickly and with all your heart! Now that Wonho is throwing it, hurry up… !”

“Okay, okay. Anyway, it’s polarity.”

And then the bottom of the first inning began. I told Leah to cheer, but Joohee couldn’t concentrate on the game because her heart felt like it was going to burst.

-Number 74, Maeng-Ho, Ji!

At Yankee Stadium, an announcement sounding to introduce a batter rings out. And when I heard that comment, the pounding sound in my chest became even louder. Although it has only been about a year since he watched baseball in depth, Joohee also knew very well what kind of mark the batter left on the baseball world.

And even when I watched Wonho play in Korea, there were times when I secretly swore at him because the batter was always blocking Wonho’s path.

‘Please, please.’

Joohee put her hands together, hoping that she wouldn’t swear at her close sister’s boyfriend and boyfriend’s best friend this time. However, I could not raise my head because of the imprinted fear.

“Why are you keeping your head down while your boyfriend is throwing? Aren’t you going to watch the game?”

“Look, I’ll see.”

But when I looked up now, it seemed like Ji Maeng-ho’s batted ball was going to go over the fence.

And at that moment,

Perfect!

The sound of a hard wooden bat hitting a ball could be heard through the noise of the stadium.

-Wow!!!!

No way, no way.

“Sister, what happened?”

Joo-hee, wondering if she might have been thinking bad thoughts and turning her imagination into reality, grabbed the wrist of Leah next to her and raised her voice.

“Anta, anta.”

“Phew…”

Leah smiled slightly when she saw Joohee like that. It was because he looked like himself cheering on Joo Seung-cheol.

‘I was like this too… Ugh, I liked it because I didn’t meet Maengho oppa when I went to the major league… No, if Maengho is Korean, he should come to the Dodgers. Why did he go to the Yankees?’

When I thought of that, I remembered the image of my boyfriend that I had every time I met Meng Hao in Korea, and I quickly put my hands together.

‘Please, let the Yankees lose…’ !’

If the Yankees came up like this, Leah thought she would see her boyfriend crying at the loss like when he lost to AT in Korea, so she prayed more earnestly than when she first appeared on a music broadcast.

Is it because the two women prayed so earnestly with their hands together?

[… Kim Won-ho takes the hit with a strikeout! … Soto walks. … Stanton’s batted ball! To the second baseman! Altuve! Hit second base and go to first base! Out! Altuve’s one-man double play! And Kim Won-ho ends the crisis!]

The Yankees’ attack in the bottom of the first inning ended without any results.

“Nice!”

“Sister!”

The two women clapped each other’s hands, and as both women had hoped, Wonho showed a good performance in the second inning and ended the second inning with no runs. And in the bottom of the third inning, when the score was still at 0:0, Ji Maeng-ho came back at bat.

The two women prayed again with their hands together as before,

Ta – Aak!

Unfortunately, heaven did not listen to the two women’s earnest prayers twice.

[Ji Maeng-ho’s hit! Left! Left! Let’s go! Ji Maeng-ho’s home run in 4 consecutive games! A man who burns even more in the fall, Ji Maeng-ho! Let’s kick off the championship series! Score 1:0!]

“No, it’s still okay, not yet…” .”

And Juhee was entranced by that reality and muttered that it was still okay.

But Leah, who watched Meng Hao longer because of his boyfriend, Joo Seung-cheol, knew.

Ji Maeng-ho’s unexpected shot in a tense pitching battle is nothing short of a sure-win formula for Ji Maeng-ho’s team to win.

As Leah predicted, the game is tight with no more points being conceded.

[… The score is still 1:0. With the score tight, Ji Maeng-ho comes to bat once again. Ji Maeng-ho hit me! Ah! The shortstop fumbled the ball! Safe at first base!]

[This is Ji Maeng-ho’s foot getting on base, right? In fact, if it were an average hitter, there would have been no reason for the infielder to be in a hurry, but since Ji Maeng-ho is a fast-footed player, Crawford was a little in a hurry and made an error.]

And in the end, Ji Maeng-ho created a crack again.

“Oh my…”

Leah’s sigh echoes throughout the room. This was because I knew that such a mistake would be fatal in a tight game. And I also knew that there was no way the Yankees’ hitters would miss this opportunity.

‘Juhee… Ugh…’

When she glanced to the side, she felt sad to see her younger brother with tears in his eyes and unable to watch the game, but Leah had some intuition of what would happen next.

[… Kim Won-ho throws the judge out! Gets one out! Now it’s Soto at bat. … Soto’s hit! Right! Right! Right! Let’s go! In the bottom of the 7th inning, Soto’s shot creates a runaway score! It looks like this is the end of Kim Won-ho, right? Although he unfortunately went down, he showed quite a bit, allowing 3 runs and 2 earned runs in 6.1 innings.]

‘It’s over…’ .’

Leah wrapped her arms around the shoulders of Joohee, who was sniffling next to her.

However, is it because of the mood that Joohee’s sniffling image somehow looks like herself a few days later?

[In the Division Series, he gave up 2 runs in 7.2 innings, and in the Championship Series, he gave up 2 runs in 6.1 innings. Won-ho Kim fully fulfilled his role. Now Houston’s batters need to help.]

The empty shouts of the commentary rang out from the cell phone, but unfortunately for Joo-hee, the game did not turn over.

“Juhee. But Wonho did well.”

“Sister…”

“It’s okay, it’s okay. Ji Maeng-ho, that bastard is bad.”

“Hey…”

“Sister, I’m going to beat that bastard today.”

Just like when the five of us first met, we decided to have a meal together, so I thought it would be okay to vent a little. Well, after the meal was over, he would go back to his hotel room alone, but he could do that much for his beloved younger brother.

“Huh, brother? I worked so hard. Really today. Ah, if the batters had played a little better, we could have won… Yes, yes. Me too, I love you too. Huh? Later night? … Why do you say that? Ah, I don’t know.”

‘… Should I just not do it? Ugh, why did I leave my boyfriend’s game and come to New York…’

However, when she saw Joo-hee, who had no interest in men, wiping away her tears and holding the phone and making cute gestures, Leah felt it was useless.