Diamond Ace Takanono

Chapter 49 The Scouts Are Here
On the day of the weekend practice game, the days of dark clouds finally passed, and the sun finally began to shine brightly on the baseball boys. Gao Zhiye stood on the sidelines wearing a helmet, picking up the balls that rolled out of bounds and putting them back into the basket.

Coach Ninomiya is not the referee today. He seems to have brought a few people to the video room just now. In the video room, the floor-to-ceiling windows next to the playground allow for a good view of the game on the field.

"Isn't that caddy your trump card?" Rei Takashima pushed up his glasses. He is also in the area of ​​West Tokyo. The Kinoshita Little League is a little baseball team that she visits every year.

"Hmph, Miyuki Kazuya, that catcher is your freshman this year, right? He took Takanono to practice changing the ball at Christmas, and he clearly told him that his arms should be fully rested during the holidays."

There was a drop of cold sweat on Takashima Rei's forehead. This old man still speaks so aggressively, and she is ready to ask her to blame, but she is not weak: "That's really embarrassing, but the scouts can't say much about the players' private lives Intervention, in terms of controlling players, Coach Ninomiya can do more."

"Hahaha, you two are still brooding over that incident." A scout from a famous school in East Tokyo said haha.

A few years ago, Takashima Rei had just graduated and returned to Qingdao to work as a scout. Not long after the supervisor at that time left, Coach Ninomiya strongly recommended his favorite student to her, but because of Qingdao's reasons, that student went to another School, originally this matter is nothing, it is just a way for students.

But one day the student suddenly called Coach Ninomiya to apologize and said that his arm was seriously injured and he was about to quit the baseball club. Coach Ninomiya's conversation with Takashima Rei has been thorny since then.

Both of them knew that they had to blame the school's supervisor for this kind of thing, but they just had a grudge.

"His parents are Qingdao's OB."

"Well, I see, I will come to investigate more later."

I really don't know whether the relationship between these two people is good or bad, and suddenly they started talking normally again.

"Well, actually, I don't really want him to go to Qingdao. Your supervisor is still too young. Since taking over, he hasn't been to Koshien except for the first year." Coach Ninomiya doesn't think Qingdao's strength is weak. , but it's a good starting point for an attack.

Takashima Rei Masaki: "The change of team supervision will inevitably bring about style changes and team turmoil. Although it is cruel, it is normal for a few years after the change of coaches to fail to achieve results. Now after experience, Kataoka's overall supervision Coaching has also formed our own style, and I believe that next year or the year after that, we will definitely be able to represent Tokyo.”

Then, the competition below officially started, and everyone stopped talking.

In this team practice match, the method of drawing lots is still used to divide the AB group. Sato is the pitcher of the A group, and Shibazaki is the B group.

As a result, at the beginning of the game, Sato threw a touch ball close to 140 kilometers, which was a thousand miles away from the position that catcher Hiramiya wanted.

"Time!" Heimiya lifted his mask and ran towards the pitcher who took off his hat.

"What's the matter, Sato, are you out of shape at the beginning?"

"No, it's just that this is my first start."

Pinggong was stunned for a moment, it seems that this is indeed the case, so the ball control problem caused by nervousness?
"Fingers are fine."

"No, I'll get used to it."

Pinggong looked at the pitcher again, patted his chest and said, "It's okay, you've already brought out the worst, and it can't get worse."

Next, Sato gave up thinking and struck out two and three in a row. Although he was hit by the four-bat Akira Hayakawa with a super long hit, he only scored a run, leaving a third base and a broken base, and the first inning was over. .

During the warm-up period between the players in Group B, the scouts in the video room began to discuss: "The four bats are not bad, they are very powerful."

"Last year, he was the catcher of the Second Army."

"The movement of this pass to second base is very smooth, how many seconds?"

"About 1.88 seconds." Coach Ninomiya replied to the scouts' questions about Akira Hayakawa.

Except for a small number of people, most of the players don't know when the scouts will come, so what the scouts see is the normal level of these kids.

'This catcher is good, but what Seido needs most now is a pitcher. Rei Takashima is also investigating Hayakawa. Although there are already catchers like Chris and Miyuki Kazuya in the team, the idea of ​​​​the prestigious school is to hope that each generation has representative players, strong shoulders and strong hits. Will this catcher be good? At what level does he grow,' he will probably be given a place to recommend admission with a reduced score. '

Then there is the discussion about Shibazaki again.

"This kid, didn't he shoot sideways before, Coach Ninomiya."

"Yes, but in order to make it easier to deal with hitters, he himself asked to practice side throwing. He has mastered the new posture in about a week, and now the ball speed has increased to 130."

"Ace's orthodox right-handed throws 138 kilometers, the left side throws 130 kilometers, and there is a substitute freshman who throws 140 kilometers. Kinoshita's pitching lineup is really luxurious."

As soon as this remark was made, other people echoed it. Coach Ninomiya stood aside and just nodded without saying a word.

Rei Takashima is sitting among a group of scouts. In recent years, she has gradually come to understand the insidiousness of this old man. Just like on Black Friday, when everyone is buying, you will be aroused to buy, and so are the scouts. When they sit together, they will easily be influenced by each other, forming the so-called 'pressure' effect, which is not a violation of the rule of 'no contact with players in advance', and allows the players to get the most attention.

Kinoshita's ace will not play today, but someone can blurt out his latest ball speed, it can be seen that everyone is very familiar with Takano's situation, "Fortunately Taka-kun's father is the OB of Qingdao, such a thing It's much easier to handle. Takashima Rei has already started to think about how to contact Gao Zhiye's father in a disguised form through the alumni association.

Gao Zhiye downstairs could feel that he would be scrutinized from time to time, but when he looked around, he didn't see any strange figures.

"A legendary scout? Damn it, I'm just a ball boy on the sidelines today, it's too low."

At the end of one game, Shibazaki's ball today is very powerful, with three ups and three downs. Currently, Group B is leading with a score of 0:1.

Sato, a pitcher from Group A, came up to the mound and the first thing he did was to clean up the sand under his feet. He still looked a little strange, he kept his head down, and threw the soil back and forth.

"Sato——" Gao Zhiye shouted from the sidelines: "Can I help you tidy up?" He raised the tools in his hand.

"Haha, it's okay." Sato looked at Gao Zhiye holding the tool, and for some reason he thought it was funny. The ace turned into a pitcher's mound sander or something, and his mood relaxed a lot. Finally, he raised his head and began to communicate with the catcher.

"Ah—I'm so envious." At some point, Hayakawa Qiu came to him and dubbed him.

"I'm not envious." Gao Zhiye defended, and then he saw that the six clubs of Group B hit a bouncing ball in the direction of the infielder. However, the expected direction of the bounce has changed, from below the shortstop to directly above the shortstop's head.

"Ah, I'm going to miss it." Gao Zhiye was one of the few people who noticed that there were scouts today. If Langzhi missed the ball, would he get an E on their side?
　I suggest you stop eating takeout.
　　I have encountered two Waterloos in the past few days. One is that I ate something like legs from the stuffing of fried buns, and the other is that I found worms in the noodles. Now the two coupons are useless after the meal is refunded
　　Takeaway is really not as clean as cooking it yourself. .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)