Diamond Ace Takanono

Chapter 45 Changeup?

The school system in Japan is very strange. There are three semesters a year. Unlike China, freshmen start in September, Japan starts in April, first semester from April to July, summer vacation in August, second semester from September to December, holidays It is the Christmas holiday until the beginning of January, and the third semester is from the beginning of January to the beginning of March.

Of course, the most important thing that students care about is the exam. The mid-term exam of the second semester will be in the second half of December, and the final exam will be back in January after the holiday.

So, now at the Sasaki family, the biggest crisis of this month has arisen.

"What does this formula mean!" Lang Zhi collapsed. He held a book in each of his left and right hands. Before he had even glanced at the book on the left, he anxiously glanced at the right again.

"Quiet!" Gao Zhiye blocked his ears, and took out the test paper of Lang Zhi's in-class test, "Start from the knowledge point you got wrong in the exam, learn one more knowledge point, and you will miss two questions."

"But I don't have time. Winter training starts this week." Kinoshita's winter training is very long and lasts from December to January, including strength training, endurance training and basic baseball training, Monday to Friday Strength and endurance training are interspersed, and basic baseball training is concentrated on weekends, basic passing and catching, various ball handling methods, base running exercises, etc.

"I don't have time, okay? I have winter training, I have to prepare for the midterm exam, and I have to tutor you in your studies!" Gao Zhiye was looking at the illustrated history of Japan, and was struggling to memorize the history.

After entering the winter training, the difficult time for the two of them officially began. Mr. Sasaki also shortened the clinic's business hours and started to drive around every day. He first drove Shen Qing back, and then went to Kinoshita Club. During the waiting time, the air conditioner It will be fully adjusted to let the sweat of the two children disappear slowly and prevent them from catching a cold.

Waiting for the gap between the traffic lights, Gao Zhiye wiped the water vapor in the car window, and the Christmas atmosphere gradually became stronger outside, with Christmas trees, lanterns, stickers, and window decorations, and people stopped from time to time.

American festivals, the Japanese celebrate their own national festivals.

There is no Spring Festival here. If a person's biological clock contains a festive alarm clock, then the world is already fully preparing to ring the bell, but according to Takano's premonition, there are still two months left.

Lang Zhi was looking forward to the holiday, and complained that Gao Zhiye was not excited about the holiday at all, but it was not so much that he was not excited about the holiday, it was better to say that he hadn't reversed the jet lag yet.

'I have left my country. After a long absence, he once again deeply experienced a kind of tearing.

What does that feel like?

It's like a seed falling into a torrent and traveling thousands of kilometers. After taking root, its spring, summer, autumn and winter, flourishing and withering, are at the same moment as the invisible mother tree. Before leaving, it formed the mother tree. After leaving, it found , everything about the mother tree makes it up.

'But I don't have a home there anymore', whether it is physical or relational, the matrilineal side is sparsely populated, relatives have long since left, and the patrilineal side has cut off contact, and even the houses of grandparents belong to others.

"What are you in a daze for?"

Only the voice next to my ear is real, and the car is warm. Gao Zhiye came back to his senses, and patted Langzhi on the head: "I am worried about you. If you don't finish reading the knowledge points today, don't sleep. , uh—a lot of sweat and dirty."

"You are not the same!"

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In late December, midterm exams and winter training came to an end. Takano, who slept at home until he woke up naturally, received a text message from Miyuki: "Are you guys on vacation, come out to play ball?"

Since knowing that Takano is coming to Seodo, Miyuki often asks him out.

Turning over twice on the bed, Gao Zhiye replied: "The old place, 1:[-] in the afternoon."

The old place they talked about was not the baseball stadium they used to be with Cheng Gongming, but it was changed between their addresses.

"Gao-jun good afternoon, ah-brother-jun, have you been stretched vertically, are you okay?" Yuxing now the main force of bickering has become Lang Zhi.

"What is vertical stretching? I have grown taller, I have grown taller!" Lang Zhi gestured at his height beside Gao Zhiye.

"Isn't that the same, like dough, after being stretched, it becomes thin and long hahaha."

"What kind of metaphor are you talking about?"

"It's very vivid, Gao Jun." Miyuki called Gao Zhiye who had no reaction to their bickering.

"Today, I will ask Miyuki-senpai to help me determine my status." Takano went straight to the point, lightening the slapstick atmosphere a lot.

"Wow—look at this look, it's completely using me as a catching tool," Miyuki was wearing protective gear, giggling, "What a coincidence, should I say that pitchers are all thoughtful guys, completely different from me It fits the purpose very well. '

Such a pitcher who refers to where to hit is the best tool to test the catcher's ability. Who is better, he or Takigawa Chrisyu, can be fully tested after Takano joined the team. Of course, he is now ahead of this pitcher. Familiarity is good, but it's not cheating. Senior Chris has always had a year more experience as a catcher than him, and he is just trying to make up for it.

After warming up, Langzhi stood in the strike zone, and Miyuki put the gloves on the inner corner first.

"Bump—" Lang Zhi stepped back abruptly, "Why is the first ball a Carter ball!"

"Haha, don't you get tired of always going straight before Carter?"

Obviously trying to make a problem for the pitcher, but still looking so relaxed, Gao Zhiye nodded to the signal and threw another straight ball with a low outside corner.

"This speed is very stable."

"Yes, it can be stabilized at around 138."

"What about the average speed?"

"134-135." The strength training and explosive training of winter training, after the end, all turned into a steady increase in ball speed.

"I can't imagine, more than 4 months ago, you were still a novice." Miyuki now talks to Takano, and it is generally more normal and serious, because this guy, once he joked with him or something, he would just ignore his seniors and not at all. Do not reply.

"Then, let's take a look at my changeup."

"Eh? Didn't the coach not let you learn the new changing ball?" Lang Zhi clearly remembered that he had said this at home.

"Oh, I accidentally threw it when I was throwing it."

"You lied to ghosts!" Lang Zhi complained, and then he looked at Miyuki who was unexpectedly calm, as if he was looking at a bad guy who led Gao Zhiye to harm: "Senior Miyuki, you taught him, right?"

"Yeah - what he said is true, it was really a coincidence, I was taken aback at the time~" Miyuki replied with a relaxed expression.

Gao Zhiye's changeup was thrown by God when he was throwing a straight ball. At that time, he hooked his finger and threw it almost randomly. He threw it very well and dropped before the home plate.

"This ball... the speed has changed." At that time, Miyuki called a high-speed straight ball, and he received a strange ball for some reason.

"Ah—I hooked my finger."

　After reviewing the outline, the proportion of the content is determined as follows: related to games or pitching: daily content = 3:1, so this chapter was originally three chapters in the outline, but now it is directly shortened to one chapter~
　　
　
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