While Tanuki Kazuya is distracted by pondering the relative lack of drama in his training experiences, the other team uses the opportunity to pull another unprecedented play!
Beelzebusa covers up for Usazawa’s disappearance by replacing him as batter. It’s not a completely perfect disguise, but aside from being much smaller, much pinker and not actually looking anything like Usazawa, he could have fooled me! Meanwhile, Usazawa turns into a cloud* of bats and sneaks to first base. As sneaky as a large group of bats in flight can be, that is, but it’s easier when everyone is staring in disbelief at the pink handpuppet. And finally, Snuka advances to second base and jams a second wicket down the front of his pants, employing whistling strategically to enhance the appearance of innocence.
It’s a perfect triple play if ever I saw one!
(And as you might already suspect, I never saw a triple play. But what I’ve picked up from paying superficial attention to random snippets of sources, it must look at least something like this, right?)
More on Monday.
* the last time I wrote about a ‘flock’ of bats, but I have since learned it’s supposed to be a ‘cloud’ of bats.