Diamond Ace Takanono

Chapter 39

In the first half of November, the routine team physical examination began.

"183 centimeters, 72kg." Gao Zhiye jumped down, and he could justifiably learn to change the ball.

The next one was Shibazaki, "Ah—I lost two catties, what's going on?"

Coach Fujii wrote down the numbers and said helplessly, "Did you go home and secretly practice shooting recently?"

Shibasaki changed his side throw, and recently it is the stage of adapting to his posture. Starting from the hard breaking posture, he has to integrate all the previous throws into the side throw. After a little overwork, his weight immediately dropped like a stock.

The third one is Sato, who is stronger than the naked eye.

"Okay, your weight goal has been achieved, and it's a lot overweight." Coach Fujii's words seemed to put a "qualified" purple stamp on the pork pigs, which means that the feeding at this stage has achieved results, "As for Shibazaki-kun, after that Start measuring resting heart rate every day again, I want to see if the training has been overdone in the past few days."

"Okay..." Shibazaki replied a little frustrated.

The new pitcher didn't understand the senior's frustration, and just stared at Shibazaki with curious eyes. In the past few days, new faces have come to the Little League team. They will start to follow the team for adaptation training in the fall. Only those who can keep up and are willing to stay will officially join the Little League team the following year.

After the pitcher's strength test is completed, I will do some universal tests with everyone, such as the base running time test. Gao Zhiye's energy is particularly strong today. He wants to laugh and throw a hundred pitches happily, but Standing next to Shibazaki, he always had his hands tied. In the end, he could only vent his energy during the sprint, showing the concentration he had in the finals that year, and the average speed between bases directly ran within 4 seconds.

"You are so excited today." Hayakawa Qiu complained, and none of the expressions on Gao Zhiye's face stayed for more than a second, almost like a dog out of the cage, "What's the matter, this is."

"Hee hee," Gao Zhiye said secretly, "This afternoon, when the teams are playing against each other, I will strike out ten players."

"... There are only nine people on the opposite side."

"It doesn't matter, just strike out all three times."

"It will be very tiring..." Akira Hayakawa gave him a vaccination. In fact, it is very difficult for a pitcher not to be able to touch the ball. At most, he can't hit it well. He can also bunt, so if Takano hits the mound with the idea of ​​getting everyone to strike out, every pitch must require a lot of physical strength.

But contrary to Takano's expectations, this time Coach Ninomiya asked them to draw lots to divide them into Group AB.

All three pitchers turned their notes.

"Ah," Takano revealed the letters to Shibasaki and Sato, "I'm in Group A all the way."

Shibasaki and Sato are in the first half of Group B alone, and in the second half of Group B alone.

People in Group A changed into ordinary uniforms without team names and dark hats, while Group B did the opposite.

Takano swept across the field, and almost all of them were mixed together. Those who are familiar with each other were divided into Group B. In the infield, the catcher was replaced by Hiramiya, a freshman in junior high school, who has been assisting Sato in the accuracy training. .

During the very tense preparation time, the two discussed the countermeasures for a while.

"In a moment I'm going to alternate the inside and outside corners to get the hitter out—"

Gao Zhiye interrupted: "My changing ball can also be considered. Out of selfishness, I want to strike out everyone on the opponent. Mr. Heimiya, can you assist me?"

Heimiya was taken aback, feeling the burning passion in the eyes of the opposite pitcher, "Ah, I remembered, during the first actual team battle, Gao Jun struck out many seniors, but after getting used to feeding the ball, many People are starting to be able to fight, aren't you reconciled? '

Hiramiya nodded, under the calm appearance, his thinking began to stretch, "Speaking of which, why was he hit later, was it just that Gao Jun's pitch was seen through?" '

'No, it must be that Hayakawa-senpai's distribution was seen through. After all, the man on the opposite side can throw the ball wherever the catcher wants. '

Gao Zhiye threw two straight balls, bringing the sensitivity of his fingers back to their peak state.

This time Takano was also the fourth bat of Group A. During the infield meeting, Takano saw that the second baseman behind him this time was Nitta, and his eyes met. Takano looked forward to what he would say. Mancai Duo, with the graduation of the third-grade shortstop, there is only one cold joke king Nitta, who always tells a cold joke when he is not expecting.

Gao Zhiye is not a humorous person, but he likes to listen to and laugh when Nitta tells bad jokes.

But as soon as Xintian opened his mouth, Gao Zhiye started to pinch him.

"Ah-our game is a bit like that, is there a movie about that?"

"what."

"Stop selling it."

"What movie?"

"King Kong vs. Godzilla, is there a movie about this?"

"Oh——" Among the group of suddenly realized voices, only Gao Zhiye was full of question marks. He looked at everyone's meaningful eyes, and stepped forward to grab Xintian who was about to escape.

"What's the matter, Nitta-kun, what's the matter with King Kong." In order to prevent the coach from finding out that something was wrong, Gao Zhiye had a smile on his face, but his eyes were like blades, and he probably guessed the situation.

"No, no, not at all, we are not discussing Gao Jun, you are like King Kong." Nitta shouted at the top of his voice, and the crowd around the mound laughed happily. There is a tic-tac-toe, so what is Godzilla? I understand it after thinking about it. It is under the guidance of coach Kinoshita to attack the more mature Hayakawa.

Gao Zhiye pinched Xintian a few times with black hands, and then let go of his hatred. Xintian put on a happy expression under the winking eyes of everyone: "Great, I survived, from the four sticks of Vajra."

So what's the situation now, Takano looked at Akira Hayakawa, who was ranked second, and turned his eyes back to the strike zone. The first was the original fifth right field Katsumura, "What is Coach Kinoshita doing? They are all piled up at the front, and the ones with the highest hit rate are ranked first, so how many more hits should I have?"

It's really radical. Relatively speaking, the order of Group A arranged by Coach Fujii is still the traditional type.

Then, for the first ball, Gao Zhiye nodded to the catcher, and a high-speed straight ball was inserted into the inside corner of a stick. Unfortunately, the hitter believed in the pitcher's accuracy, so he didn't dodge much at all, and just let the ball go.

"Bad ball."

Cut, don't worry, let's play another ball, you haven't seen this ball, have you?

On the second ball, the hitter avoided a ball that seemed to touch the body in cold sweat, but the ball turned into the strike zone.

"Hey——" Everyone on the bench couldn't see what Takano was shooting, but at first the ball looked like it was going to touch, and then there was a lot of discussion.

"I almost thought that Gao Jun missed the shot just now?"

"So what kind of ball is that, is it Carter or a slider, it seems like the trajectory is going down."

"I really want to go to the strike zone and have a look."

Akira Hayakawa, who was waiting in the strike preparation area, hooked the corners of his mouth, "Forget it, in order to make the pitcher self-willed, it is acceptable to say less information. Let each of them experience it personally, which is more effective than what I say." . '

Then the third ball, a low-speed straight ball with a low inside angle, fell a little more than the first ball, and the stick was not aimed well, so it could only be hit out of bounds.

'This guy's straight ball is really hard to hit. '

Yibang silently complained about Gao Zhiye.

Another pitch, a Carter ball, went bad from the outside corner, but a bat fumbled, first hitter, first inning, four strikeouts.

Takano leaned over and shook the talcum powder bag, looked at Hayakawa Akira who walked to the strike zone, and smiled wickedly.

'You didn't tell everyone in Group B about my pitch? '

The two people, who were 18 meters apart, seemed to be connected with each other, and Akira Hayakawa smiled back.

'It's not for you. '

But how to strike out this guy, Hayakawa Qiu is very familiar with his pitching, so let's do something unexpected.

The first ball was a low inside corner with a high speed, rushing to the home plate with the sound of howling wind, which made Hayakawa's batting action freeze for a moment. In such a moment, the best period of hitting was over, and the strike hit the base.

'Eh?The ball is 137. It has surpassed his fastest speed ever, "Hayakawa Akira swung the bat and resumed his strike action." , What a hot-blooded guy, it made all the hairs on my body stand on end. '

Amidst the discussion of "the speed of this ball seems to have increased", the second duel of the shooting and catching combination began.

Catcher Hiramiya sensed the tension between the batter and the pitcher, and kept thinking, "Although Mr. Gao said that his fastest speed was around 135, but the speed of the ball just now has subtly increased. How to match the ball?" Only then can senior Hayakawa get out by striking out, and now outside corner kicks are no longer his weakness. . '

Go low on the outside corner, still at top speed, let his eyes get used to the speed.

The second ball was thrown into the bad ball area with a low outer corner. Heimiya felt Hayakawa's body tense up for a moment, and then relaxed after realizing that it was a bad ball.

'Now that the body rhythm has begun to adapt, let's have a Carter Ball in the same position. '

Takano nodded. The fastest speed of the Carter ball is only about 127. With the speed difference and the change of the ball path, Hayakawa's bat will pass the baseball this time.

"Wow——" Gao Zhiye wanted to whistle to himself, but because he was still on the mound, he forcibly held back.

The third ball, a high-speed ball with a low inside corner, Akira Hayakawa struggled to keep up, but it was still too late to pick it up, hit the front of the second baseman, and was blocked out.

"Tsk—he was still hit by him." Takano sighed, "At the highest speed, the ball still feels like it's about to be released, and it's not as good as around 130." '

Hiramiya patted the protective gear with his hands. He and Gao Zhiye had never played together before, but he understood Gao Zhiye's mood very well at this time, and immediately calmed him down and focused on the next hitter.

The third bat in Group B, after Takano quickly settled his mentality, struck out through the ball crossing the inner and outer corners.

The first game was so seemingly easy three ups and three downs.

"Gao-kun, good shot, let's strike out Hayakawa-senpai together next time." Heimiya and Takano ran back to the rest area side by side, putting down the 'rhetoric words'.

"Haha, that's up to you."

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