Diamond Ace Takanono

Chapter 392 Experiment in the game
"Ugh—the seniors actually stayed to eat until the end." Several first-year students, except for a small number of Yuki and Yui, the others basically still eat very slowly and stay to the end.

"I heard that they had another physical training this morning."

"It's so intense, I've practiced until I have no appetite." It's the same as rookies like them who have just touched the intensity of high school.

"From Coach Ochiai's point of view, it requires high-quality content."

"I'm so curious, hey, let's go and have a look tomorrow morning."

Listening to the discussion of other people, Seto was quite curious, and turned to ask his friend, "Guangzhou, should we go and see it tomorrow?"

Okumura was chewing something, his cheeks were bulging, and he finally swallowed it after a long time, "No, we have our own problems, don't we?" , guidance, timing control on the court, these are all things he needs to learn, and the person who allowed him to learn these things, Miyuki Kazuya, is about to retire soon.

"It's true", even if the seniors have already won the Koshien championship, there are very few people on top of them, and there are very few people to compare with, they are still comparing themselves with their previous selves, striving for greater progress, not to mention They are freshmen who still have a lot of shortcomings.

"However—" Seto thought of the declaration he had just made, "Senior Sasaki always wanted to switch to shortstop. The competition for this position is really fierce."

"Well," the Little League player Arakishita also said at this time, "Senior Sasaki has always been a shortstop, but after coming to Qingdao, in order to be able to enter the first-team draft, he changed his position to third base. "

"Is that so?" Seto looked at Okumura, remembering his friend's loud declaration at the beginning of school, "No other position is accepted except catcher." '

"What's wrong?" Okumura wondered.

"No, nothing?" Seto was wondering if his friend would choose to go the same way as Sasaki-senpai in order to get on the court faster, 'Probably not. 'Friends are stubborn in a way.

The peaceful meal time passed, and two hours later, a bus drove into the gate of Qingdao. This is Qingdao's battle sequence that is almost scheduled for next year.

"Wow—look at the other side, there are so many pitchers. Qingdao is indeed the kingdom of pitchers!"

"Why are you so happy, so many pitchers are all used to deal with us!"

"No way, it would be the best if their ace can play. I want to see what a pitcher at the Koshien level is like."

"Eh? True or false, look at the battle table, the one who plays is really the ace!"

"Well, anyway, we are also the quasi-winners in the county."

On the opposite bench, Qingdao's shooter is arranging the tactics for this game.

"Senior Miyuki, I have recovered to the present, and I still have about 9% of my physical strength left. However, I will lose about [-]% of my energy in one game. This situation is very similar to the situation in the middle and late stages of the game."

"So you want to use the game to train your performance in the later stage?" Miyuki probably understood what his partner meant. Everyone in Seido knew about the ace in the 7 rounds, but it would be cruel to be put on the front page by the media.

"In other words, when the physical strength is good in the first half, it is a shooting method, and when the physical strength is not good in the second half, it is another shooting method. I need to find out this second mode." In fact, it was coach Ochiai who gave him The emphasis is on how to stabilize the mentality and maintain a stable and correct posture when the physical strength cannot keep up in the second half.

"I see, then after I receive your signal, I will adjust the ball distribution plan and gap accordingly."

"Well, what's more, recently I want to go back to the previous break method."

"Huh?" Miyuki vaguely remembered that it meant lying down and resting between games, taking a deep breath on the mound, and relaxing in sequence according to the muscles, "I see." What else can I do, just experiment with the pitcher.

In fact, if you want to talk about rest, it is reflected in the physical signs, which is the heart rate.In a high-intensity game like tennis, someone has conducted hundreds of hours of field video research and found that top players can use the gap between games to maximize their recovery. Within 16-20 seconds after scoring, the heartbeat of top players can drop to 60 beats per minute. (Quoting "Energy Management" here)
Pitching is a whole-body exercise that relies heavily on the pitcher's muscle power. While accelerating the baseball to over 140 kilometers, the pitcher's heartbeat will also become faster and faster.Gao Zhiye's goal is very clear. During the interval between each batter's playing, he strives to minimize the impact of the previous batter and restore his heartbeat to the warm-up level.

This game is against the Shanggao from Sendai. Their county’s spring meeting ends a little earlier than Tokyo’s. They have made appointments with Qingdao very early. After the match with Qingdao, there will be appointments with other Tokyo players. .

"No, I'm going to get nervous, it's really an ace playing!"

"Let's go get a contact in a while."

But after the game started, the players of Sendai Shanggao clearly felt that the opponent's ace was paddling slightly.

"In this game, the opponent's ace pitched at most only about 140 kilometers."

"Didn't it mean that the Tokyo Metropolitan Conference didn't even play in the last game?"

Under such circumstances, it is a great test of the catcher's ability to distribute the ball.

'Here we mainly use the change ball. No, wait, the hypothetical scene now is the middle and late stages of the game.The speed of the ball is reduced, and the sensitivity of the fingers is reduced. For some changes that test the feeling, the state of the ball needs to be confirmed before it can be called. '

And Gao Zhiye looked at the catcher who became more cautious. For some reason, there was a smile on the corner of his mouth. This smile was not only for the catcher, but also for the guards behind him. Like Eijun, he was silent in his heart. Read aloud, 'I will let them fight out, everyone who is behind the defense, please take care of me ~ Always rely on me to strike out, you will not grow~'

So for the next ball, only 7% of the power is used, and the rest is used to ensure accuracy.

"Touch—" The baseball made a beautiful turn to the inside corner in front of the hitter's bat.

"Third base!"

"Yes!" Lang Zhi slid over, stood up after receiving the ball, and threw the ball to first base.

"out!"

"Three outs, switch offense and defense!"

The first half of the round was over, and even everyone inside Qingdao noticed something was wrong, "Is Takano doing some experiments? Is it an experiment aimed at making the hitters hit weak ground balls?"

But the coaching staff can probably know his motivation, "It's so worry-free, have you started to adjust your mentality in actual combat?" '

Accepting the decline in physical strength and accepting the ball being hit is, to some extent, a little more difficult than trying to maintain physical strength.

(End of this chapter)