Diamond Ace Takanono

Chapter 16 Watching Miyuki's Game

Watching Miyuki's game

As the final adjustment time before the game, the energy of the whole team was invested in the first-choice players. During the two weeks when other teams were playing games, some members of the Kinoshita Little League team took cameras to roam around the venues for scouting. Some team members assist the coach to conduct special training for the regular selection every day.

However, as an important reserve force for next year, Takano and other pitchers of the second army will still carry out strength training according to their original plan, while Akira Hayakawa and others are called to make final corrections to the pitching of the pitchers of the first army.

According to Akira Hayakawa, although no more experiments were done on Takano, the coaching staff also used various channels to confirm the effect of the rotating shaft, such as asking the university coaches about the mechanics of the entire pitching process. In the final analysis, he corrected the pitching movements of Blackstone and Nozawa within half a month.

Because Senior Blackstone is already 1.85, although he has made many movement corrections, some of the movements he formed earlier are still left behind. After the coaching staff analyzed frame by frame, it was found that his shoulders were a little open, and the side of the glove The abdomen was not pressed down, causing Heishi's shoulders to be slightly inclined to rotate laterally, so the shoulders would be exposed to the attacker's eyes in advance.

After the correction, the side belly drives the shoulder on the glove side to press down, the shoulder on the pitching side has room to rotate vertically, and the time it appears in front of the hitter is also later, and because the shoulder on the pitching side moves outwards less, the throwing arm is more Closer to the body, the shot is more controlled and more accurate.

Finally, it is the focus of the adjustment. Currently, Blackstone’s weapon is straight ball + curve ball. From the perspective of the hitter, these two balls have four seams. You can judge whether the ball is a straight ball or a curve ball by the feeling of the ball's rotation.

Although everyone believed what the coach said, this kind of powerful hitter should only appear in professional baseball. Even if a high school player can judge it, he may not be able to hit it.

In order to convince his teammates, Coach Fujii chose Captain Ido, who has one of the best senses of the ball, to be the hitter, because there are many times in actual combat. Captain Yido commented after the hit, "Compared to the previous straight It's harder to hit, but the difference in spin between straight and curve balls is more noticeable in the early stages."

So in order to make up for this problem, Blackstone needs to adjust the rotation axis of his curveball in the last two weeks, so that it can coincide with the rotation axis of the straight ball as much as possible.

"Straight balls with high speed will create a better illusion of upward drift, while curve balls will go downward. If the rotation axes of these two types of balls can coincide, that is, the early stages of straight balls and curve balls will be the same in the eyes of the hitter. The four-seam rotation is actually completely different, one is the four-seam upward rotation, the other is the downward rotation, the hitter will always be in a state of guessing the ball, which is very beneficial to us." Coach Fujii said on his face. Laughing, "Junior high school batters can't handle this at all."

Although Gao Zhiye was also very happy for Senior Heishi, but watching a group of adults study how to deal with junior high school students all day long, it was quite difficult to say, "How should I put it, these adults are also very passionate."

For Nozawa, the overall adjustment has been completed. As the ACE of the team, he is now a lot more serious. He usually comes over to harass Takano and Shibazaki in the training room. Now he is spending almost all his time on training and rest.

"The atmosphere in the team is very different." Gao Zhiye sighed.

Shibazaki nodded and agreed. Although most of the third graders in the team will continue to play in high school, this is also the last year of the Kinoshita Little League. Most of them have been under the guidance of Coach Ninomiya since elementary school. Now the elementary school members of the Kinoshita Club are training in the indoor training ground. Their training time is much shorter than that of the junior high school members, and many of them will come to the outdoor training ground to watch higher-level players while waiting for their parents. practice.

"Presumably those third-year junior high school students came here in the same way. Elementary and junior high schools are all familiar playgrounds. Seeing generations of seniors sweating and leaving soon, they must be reluctant."

In this atmosphere, Takano also gradually understood the important position of baseball in the growth process of a young man in Japan. Of course, this change in mentality is also because Coach Ninomiya asked him to be a scorer to watch several games The reason for the game, Coach Ninomiya understands that it is difficult for people from a country that has not grown up in the baseball atmosphere to understand the importance of baseball to young people, so in these two weeks, let Hayakawa Qiu lead Gao Zhi Wild recorded several games.

When Gao Zhiye watched those failed teams leave in frustration, the weight of baseball's victory or defeat became more and more heavy in his heart, but at the same time, because he bet more on baseball, in school, he I have slowly given up on the idea of ​​finding a good friend.

In basketball class, he shot accurately, was accosted by a small group of boys, and gradually became familiar with him, but every day after school, Gao Zhiye had to go to the Little League team, and when he left the Little League team, he dragged Sasaki Ryo Zhizhi's tail, he really couldn't get away and play with those people, so this friendship ended in Takano's rejection before it started.

As a result, as an energetic young man, Takano's life is not only about studying, but also about baseball. "That's how the so-called baseball idiots are cultivated."

So when Takano received Miyuki's email, he really had the idea of ​​'do you want to find friends in the baseball world', but when he actually opened the email to check it, he immediately extinguished this idea, baseball The world is so big, why can't I think about finding this person.

The content of the email is: "Gao Jun, come and watch my game tomorrow. Let's play against the 'Big Victory Little League'. Anyway, you are not a regular pick, and you are free if you are idle. Why don't you come and watch my game."

"What do you mean I'm not a real candidate, so I'm idle, I also have a lot of training to do." In an instant, Gao Zhiye burst out with the desire to type and complain, "Wait, didn't I say to delete him earlier Well, he didn't intend to make me angry and hook me to reply'.

Following his memory, he seems to have seen the catcher who was talking to himself and saw through his excuses. At that time, he was half-forced to ask for the mailbox, and later said that he wanted to delete it, but various things were delayed and forgotten.

"But it's strange, how did he know that I wasn't the main pick?" Also, when he was pitching in the garden, Miyuki didn't know his name yet. After the game, Takano was going for a walk, so Miyuki called out Takano directly. Nono's name.

Therefore, Gao Zhiye upholds the psychology of deleting people to satisfy his curiosity, and replied: "How do you know the situation of so many of our team?"

"Secret, if you come to the game tomorrow, I will consider telling you."

Well, you really shouldn't reply to him.

Before Gao Zhiye clicked to delete, another message was sent from the other side: "We should be a good pair. Aren't you called 'Self-aiming Missile Lord'? If the two of us cooperate, you can strictly implement my plan." Tactics, throwing where I want, we can deal with a lot of hitters together."

Okay, the answer has been revealed. Miyukiichi Kinoshita's undercover agent is Nozawa-senpai. This Nozawa-senpai is still as unreliable as ever. Why is "self-targeting" added in front of "Missile King" now? 'The prefix is ​​really powerless to complain.

Gao Zhiye closed his mobile phone, and was going to wait until the first game was over, and go to Senior Nozawa with the evidence to ask for an explanation.

However, what Gao Zhiye never expected was that he still came to watch Kazuya Miyuki's game, and was pulled hard. Today, Hayakawa Akira stood at the door of the training room, staring at Gao Zhiye who was dawdling with his body every day. After showing the mood of 'I don't want to go to the game today' in one detail, he still pulled him here without changing his expression.

"Miyuki Kazuya, another strong-shouldered catcher who has attracted attention after last year's 'Tokyo's No. [-] Iron Catcher'." Hayakawa explained to Takano as usual. The understanding of the relationship between arrests has been further broadened. The original relationship between casters and arrests can also be expanded downwards to become "nanny".

"Oh, the shoulder is so powerful, why doesn't he become a pitcher." Gao Zhiye snarled.

"Look at how fast he hits the second base. It's a pity that he didn't play in the last practice game." Akira Hayakawa didn't respond to Takano's criticism.

"It's entirely possible that he didn't play last time because he was late."

"This time we have to collect his information carefully. Compared with his strong shoulders, we need to pay more attention to his ability to guide different types of pitchers well." Akira Hayakawa handed over the scoring book, and Takano obediently took it.

Although he was far away from the court, Gao Zhiye still pulled down the brim of his hat by two points, fearing that he would say trash talk like "I said I didn't want to watch my game, but I still came to watch" afterward.

In the first inning of the big victory, the Little League went first. Miyuki glanced at the shallower bat held by the first hitter, and called a low straight ball from the outside corner without hesitation. The pitcher on the opposite side looked at the catcher's signal with a blank expression, and nodded slightly. Hit Miyuki behind home plate.

"Hey, Hasegawa, I completely vented my dissatisfaction on the pitch. If you used too much force in the early stage, I will ask the supervisor to change the pitch."Miyuki's threat was shown without omission in the forceful return pass.

"Tsk." Feeling the dissatisfaction of the catcher, Hasegawa thought of Miyuki's words before the game.

"Hasegawa-kun, I will focus on straight balls and carter balls in this round. Please temporarily seal the other types of balls."

"Why, do you still think my slider can't match it?"

"Do I have to say it? Hasegawa-kun's slider is not sharp enough now, it can't confuse hitters, and it always misses the ball. It's better to give up the idea of ​​​​using it in the game as soon as possible."

"Tch, the coach didn't say anything."

"Haha, but during the game, the coach still trusts my judgment."

Sure enough, I still couldn't pair up with this catcher, all he needed was a tool to execute his ideas.

On the next pitch, Hasegawa threw a Carter in a similar position, and the hitter knocked out a grounder.

　I signed the contract, I sang anxiously in my heart
　　I don’t know if I can stick to it, I don’t know if my writing is good enough, I don’t know if I can be recognized, anyway, I’m supporting myself now with the mood of “practice and stick to one thing”

　　
　
(End of this chapter)