Diamond Ace Takanono

Chapter 30

In the first half of the second inning, Takano returned to the mound. On the mound that he made a mess in the first inning, he added other people's traces. For some reason, he felt a little uncomfortable and smoothed the soil roughly. That feeling just subsided.

'What's wrong with me, because the last game ended too quickly? Gao Zhiye silently complained about his strange possessiveness that suddenly appeared.

The sound of cheering from the bench is next to my ear, echoing in the empty playground.

'Is there any cheering in the last game? "Don't think about it, Gao Zhiye knew that everyone must be cheering for him in the last game, it's just because of the adrenaline just now, the ears blocked all the sound, after a round of trimming, the hormone subsided a little, wrapped in sugar coating, really The taste of the game began to show.

"Very good shot!" Akira Hayakawa passed the ball over, hoping to get Takano, who had run away, back into the game.

Gao Zhiye spun the baseball twice and stopped thinking about it.

In the second inning, the first batter he faced was Yoshillon's fourth batter and captain.

Akira Hayakawa, who is also the captain, squatted behind the home plate and observed the four-bat, "In this year's Kanto Conference, this four-bat scored 32 hits and 16 RBI in 4 games. In that game, he seemed to be a five-bat. The feature I remember is. . . '

Akira Hayakawa thought about not delaying the game signal, and quickly gave instructions for a bad ball in the inside corner.

'What's the matter, this hitter, there's absolutely no need to throw a bad ball. Gao Zhiye understood that Senior Nozawa's advice was correct, but it was difficult to suppress the complaints in his head when he was really standing on the mound.

The bad ball in the inside corner rushed past Ji Yong's four-stick chest, and he quickly stood up straight to avoid it.

The second ball is a sideline ball with a low outer corner. Last time the referee picked up a strike. This time, let's verify the range of the referee's strike today.

"Strike!" Picked it up again, lucky!It seems that today's referee's strike zone is quite wide.

So for the third ball, there was another bad ball from the chest in the inside corner, "Don't throw a touch ball", Hayakawa Akira gently drew a circle with his gloves. His expression was a little stiff, making Hayakawa afraid that he would collapse suddenly.

Gao Zhiye knew that there was something wrong with his current state, but he could still throw in that glove by instinct.

"Bump—" Si Kuo looked back at the glove, and understood that the catcher was planning on him. It seemed that he knew that he was good at hitting inside corner kicks, so if he had the ability, he would throw a good ball from the inside corner.

Seeking benevolence and benevolence, the next ball is a ball with a low inside angle.

Yoshinaga's four-ball eyes lit up. They all knew that the Kinoshita pitcher didn't change the ball. Two consecutive bad balls on the inside corner chest made him very familiar with the pitcher's straight ball path, and now he can just hit it directly.

The bat slammed out hard, and by the time the ball was about to hit home plate, Yoshinaga felt something was wrong.

'Why, a little down?Shouldn't drop so much. 'It was too late to adjust the posture, the baseball that missed the center of the ball was stuck in the infield, and the four bats were out in an instant.

In order not to disturb the five-strike strike, Yoshinaga's four-strike did not convey any information to the teammates who passed by, but he quickly informed the coach of the news after he reached the bench.

"A straight ball that can fall?" The coach rubbed his gray hair, a bunch of messy hairs sticking out of his ear, "Brother Ergong, you are really cunning, this is probably the low-speed straight ball, he worked on it for a year before he succeeded Didn’t expect all the pitchers in their team to know the ball after practice? Give him more wine next time and let him explain the secret of teaching.”

"That... Coach..." Sizhu's questioning tone brought the coach back to his senses.

"Oh, even if this pitcher has two types of straight balls, or three types, they are all straight balls after all. You can only rely on the change before the home plate to make people hit badly. After that, you all stand a little more forward and actively swing the bat to affect each other. the pitcher!"

"Hi--"

Among the echoing voices of the four sticks, he heard the voice of the five sticks behind him.

"Eh? Why are you here?"

"..."

"He hit an infield fly." The troublemaker replied from the bench for a speechless five.

"The referee's strike zone seems to be extra wide today." Wu Ba ignored everyone's laughter and fed back the information he got.

The gray-haired old man rubbed his hair again: "This pitcher has an unexpectedly high deviation value. Although he only has less than two innings, I think his balls are basically requested by the catcher. Observe carefully, and then Makino——"

The catcher Makino received his second-inning task, and the coach asked him to guide the pitcher to throw the ball from the sideline by the way, and look at the strike zone range of the referee today.

"If nothing else, this pitcher will be Kinoshita's ace next year. You must take a good look at his pitching!"

When the Yoshiyoshi Little League bench was bustling with activity, at the end of the second inning, Yoshiyoshi fumbled a six-bat to an inside corner ball and struck out. He quickly returned to the bench with his bat.

Akira Hayakawa took off the mask, and asked Takano's condition in a soothing tone, "You cast very well, and it's all in the gloves. Is it too hot? Let's add more water in the middle."

"Okay———" Takano was frightened when he saw the nanny Hayakawa Akira, and hurried back to the bench.

Lang Zhi took two steps behind, covered his mouth with his gloves and said, "It's okay, I'm close, watch him from behind."

Hayakawa Qiu nodded, had already run to the entrance of the bench, and patted Lang Zhi on the back without saying anything.

With the water glass handed to him by his teammates in his mouth, Takano knew his state in his heart, "I probably need a formal game to really adapt, but that guy Hayakawa is too sharp, obviously I shot very well, Still using that tone to appease me. . '

In the second half of the second inning, Hayakawa, who just took off his equipment, played as the fourth bat of the Kinoshita Little League. After Kinoshita Liu made a simple adjustment, he is now playing outside corner kicks in style.

For the first ball, the outside corner was low, but the referee didn't pick it up. Under the mask, Makino's face became serious. It seemed that just as the coach said, the referee's strike zone was taken away by the opposing pitcher.

The second ball was at the low outside corner again, but it was slightly higher. Akira Hayakawa bit the slightly higher outside corner and hit the right field sideline. When the second baseman handled the high pass, the Then he made it to second base dangerously.

Cheers erupted from the Kinoshita Little League bench, and Gao Zhiye followed everyone in front of the fence, applauding loudly, and then everyone looked sideways at him, and finally Lang Chi pulled him: "Takano, you are the sixth club, go to get ready."

No improvement made a movement on the bench. The five-bat right field Katsumura was excited by the four-bat hit. He hit the first ball and the ball fell to the wall of the center field. The second baseman Akira Hayakawa quickly Running back for one point, Katsumura ran a few steps towards second base, saw that the center field had picked up the ball, stopped, and retreated to first base.

So it was the turn of the six-stick pitcher Takano, he was such a big man standing in the strike zone, from the catcher's point of view, it was very eye-catching, "This pitcher is more than 1.8 meters, so tall", Yoshinaga's catcher Makino did not For the pitcher's hitting data, he first called a low outside corner to test it out.

It's a pity that now that the new hitting posture is stabilized, Takano usually hits the ball with a low outer corner. In order to increase the elevation angle of the hit when Takano hits a low outer corner, Kinoshita Liu and Takano have studied half a ball. Yue, now the outer horn is low, it's like feeding Gao Zhiye.

"Good time~" Gao Zhiye dragged the rippling ending, and directly picked up the ball. In the eyes of everyone, the baseball flew powerfully to the right field and hit the block directly.

"Home run!" Gao Zhiye's footsteps slowed down.

'Why is it too clichéd for a catcher to always try low on the outside corner in the face of an unfamiliar hitter? Gao Zhiye complained silently, and returned to the rest area to be rubbed.

Jillon's pitcher, with his head down, straightened the mound, and hit the next batter with a walk-off.

Yoshinaga's bench seat, the coach's face remained motionless, but he shook his head in his heart, 'Hey, these junior high school students are still too immature. '

In the second half of the second inning, Kinoshita scored four points, and it was the second bat.

At the beginning of the third inning, Takano slowly got used to the hustle and bustle of the stadium, and the pressure that the game would only start when he threw the ball, which made Yoshinaga's hitters constantly up and down uncomfortably.

In the end, Kinoshita won the practice game on Saturday afternoon, and Gao Zhiye also ushered in the first game in his life where he lost all shots and lost no points.

When the coaches shook hands, Yoshinaga's coach habitually complained to Coach Ninomiya: "You old man, you are really lucky. Someone gives you chopsticks when you eat food, and a spoon when you eat soup. Why do you have this kind of behavior in your team? pitcher."

"Haha, your pitchers are not bad, except for mentality."

"At this time, I realize that these children are only in junior high school, and their mentality can't be forced. I just ask them not to lose confidence."

After making an appointment for drinking time this Sunday, Jillong's coach left with his players.

In his own team, Coach Nigong also announced the news to let everyone breathe a sigh of relief: "Since everyone is tired recently, we will continue to train tomorrow morning and have a holiday in the afternoon. You can go back to rest early."

Mr. Sasaki was delighted when Takano came home with the news, since the two kids started playing baseball together on the Little League team, there was little time for the family to enjoy weekends together.

"It just so happens that there will be an autumn competition tomorrow afternoon. Let's watch the competition together and then go to the restaurant in front of the station for dinner."

"Autumn competition?" Gao Zhiye first thought of the just-concluded Kanto Conference.

"It's the fall competition of high school, and my high school alma mater has reached the semi-finals this time."

Mr. Sasaki's high school alma mater?Takano only remembered that Mr. Sasaki had indeed played baseball for a long time, but could he still be admitted to medical school after playing baseball?

"Which high school is Mr. Sasaki's alma mater?"

"It's Seidou High School in Kokubunji City. I'm ashamed to say it. I was active as a member of the hobby club for three years in high school. I was busy with my studies and quit the club. I haven't participated in the activities of OBs for a long time. This time It’s been a long time since Qingdao reached the semi-finals, so we still have to watch it.”

　Hahaha, I found the motivation to let Gao Zhiye enter Qingdao, hehe, forgive an author's obsession with writing fanfiction
　　In addition, I am still collecting a lot of information. If you have any useful information or analysis videos, you can leave a message to me, and I will learn.
　　
　
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