Diamond Ace Takanono

Chapter 71 Pitcher No. 11

In the second half of the inning, the opponent's pitcher was No. 11. He was a pitcher who had played in spring training before. The ball speed was around 132. He should know four seams, two seams and sliders.

Yoshino, one of the Kinoshita Little League players, had a very low batting rate against No. 11 pitcher in the last game. Because of the follow-up strategy adopted by the Mingquanji Little League, each pitcher may only pitch two innings before leaving the game, and the amount of data is too small.

But training will give people self-confidence. It has been more than a month since spring training, and this time I can play!
Yoshino was focused and hit the first pitch. He felt a little bad when the ball hit it, but he dropped the bat and ran. The ball bounced near the mound and high through the shortstop's catch. Finally roll towards the outfield.

"Good job!" Yoshino didn't let go of his heart until he stepped on the base bag and the referee spread his hands.

The second bat is center fielder Ohno. He and Yoshino are actually of the same type, that is, they have a fast pace. Relatively speaking, Yoshino's batting rate is slightly higher.

But he's good at the penalty, hitting a third-base ball that rolls along the sideline.

"Don't move!" the catcher yelled, and the rushing third baseman and the pitcher all backed away, staring at the ball, and suddenly stopped on the sideline, and the umpire on the side judged "in bounds!"

"Huh?——" In contrast to the cheers from the wooden bench, the Mingquan Temple Little League side made a puzzled voice. This guy's point is too coincidental, how many times he has practiced.

The No. 11 pitcher had no choice but to dunk the ball with his glove, scooped it up and threw it to the catcher, then turned around and went to the mound. Now there were Kinoshita Kinoshitas standing on the first and second bases.

'This team is really tough, it's so hard to chew, and it's easy to lose teeth. '

Because of his nervousness, pitcher No. 11 threw a pinch ball to first base. The catcher's glove drooped. When the pitcher looked this way again, he opened his hands and patted his armor to signal him to relax.

Then he threw two sliders in a row, both bad balls.

The catcher was a little anxious and called a timeout.

"Let's cast with peace of mind, and use the second suture to catch double kills later."

"I know."

But you know, you know, the catcher is too cautious, and the batter is entangled in the ball selection at the moment, directly accumulating four bads. After such a short time, no one is out and the bases are full.

The next bat was Kinoshita's four-bat, and the catcher called for a timeout, in fact, to buy time for the pitcher to come back for a while.

Pitcher No. 11 is fine at the moment, mainly because he often encounters this situation. When the bases are full, his concentration is better than before.

'This pitcher is very calm. "Hayakawa knows this kind of pitcher. As a catcher, he can't help but observe the opponent's pitcher when he is playing against various teams. This kind of pitcher has a soft personality, but if you look at him softly, you feel that you can beat him directly. It was a miscalculation. The consequence of softness is that he often encounters various difficult problems, such as being knocked out constantly, for example, there are often people on the base, so he has rich experience and strong resilience. A pitcher who can be knocked off easily.

Such a pitcher, what kind of ball will he throw at this time?
The first ball, a straight ball from the inside corner, landed on the edge of the strike zone. "Strike—" the referee picked up the ball. It was obvious that the unstable start had passed.

Then the next shot, the outer corner was low, Hayakawa moved the stick, but he didn't swing it out. When Hayakawa was about to hit a straight ball, the ball turned outward, "bad ball!"

"Huh—" Fortunately, after being struck out by the slider last time, he was careful this time and didn't swing it directly, otherwise it would have been two strikes.

"Cut——" The Mingquan Temple young baseball player on the other side felt unbalanced at the same time, obviously he was lured by this ball last time.

The catcher took another look at Hayakawa under the mask. This four-stick, it seems that he is very confident in his swing speed, so he dared to wait until the end, and then make a shot after confirming the path of the ball.

Swing speed is a very important quality in hitting ability. In fact, there are a lot of researches on hitting in professional baseball now, but unlike pitching, hitting is a problem of energy transmission chain, and there is often no way speak clearly.

But one thing is for sure. When the professional baseball is nominated, one of the points that will be examined when considering the hit is the swing speed. The pitching speed of professional pitchers is very fast, and each of them has special skills. But luckily they will all come to the home plate in the end, hit the strike and let go of the bad. As long as the hitter can react and swing the bat to keep up, they can start to hit the real hit The time between is shortened to the shortest, and the observation time is extended to the longest, so that when the ball hits home plate before hitting, no matter how many changes there are, it will not affect the hitting.

Then the third ball, let’s have a straight ball that moves in front of the home plate. Hitting this kind of ball that moves at the end is very difficult to hit, and the ball with high speed can be combined and called “tail strength” strong ball".

Pitcher No. 11 thought about the scene where Hayakawa hit a fly ball last time, and felt a little more at ease out of thin air.

The next moment he throws the ball, heading straight for the outside corner.

Hayakawa stared at the ball, and the actual time was less than a second. He had gone through all the pitches the pitcher had pitched to him before, and finally judged that this was a second seam. When he came to the conclusion, his The bat has been swung halfway, and he hits in the direction of the baseball change.

"Bump—" The two collided, and the baseball quickly flew out of home plate and headed for the outfield.

Yoshino at third base was two steps away from the base bag, and his footsteps remained flexible. Once he was caught, he needed to step on the base bag and rush again. At the order of the official, Yoshino rushed directly to the home plate. Based on his muscle habits, he still slid, but he quickly stood up again.

Amid the commotion, Yoshino saw that the opponent had already picked up the ball and passed it to the home plate, so he raised his hands and signaled Ohno, who was on third base, not to rush over.

"It's still too shallow," said Hayakawa, who was finishing at first base.

The next thing is to look at Gao Zhiye, now it is a good situation with no one out.

Gao Zhiye looked at the situation on the field, stood still in the strike zone, and felt the scrutiny from the catcher behind him. He thought in his heart that the characteristics of this pitcher are straight balls and sliders, so people who can slide the ball now Why are there so many? Otherwise, the next one will learn how to skate.

'Last time, this guy was four, and he hit the straight ball well. After thinking about it, the catcher of the Mingquan Temple Little League decided to use a straight ball interspersed with a change ball to deal with Takano.

So the first pitch, a straight ball in the low outside corner, pitched a little lower, and pitcher No. 11 nodded, and though it didn't make any sense, he looked back at the runner on the underbasket and pitched quickly.

"Bad ball!"

If you shoot too fast, the rhythm of the pitch is easy to break, and if you are not careful, it will be judged as a foul by the pitcher for "throwing the ball too fast". The catcher gets a ball from the referee, stands up and passes it back to the pitcher. The hand pressed down, signaling for the pitcher to slow down.

The second ball, in the direction of the outside corner, is a slider, and it is about to slide out of the strike zone.

Gao Zhiye saw that it was a slider when the ball reached the middle, but he couldn't tell whether the ball would slip into the bad ball zone. If he made a forced shot, it would be bad to create a double play, so he stopped halfway through the swing up.

"nice shot!"

'Haha——Sure enough, it's not so much that he can't hit the change ball badly, it's better to say that the five bats are always hesitant to shoot the marginal change ball. '

The situation is now one good and one bad, Takano looked back at the coach on the bench, coach Ninomiya didn't give any feedback, he just touched the brim of his hat and signaled him to deal with it himself.

Takano couldn't help recalling the sense of accomplishment that he could keep up with the ball when he first came into contact with baseball. He also remembered how refreshing he was when he bullied Shibazaki, who had only a speed of more than 120 balls. Attacking is still playing with your mind, once you lose your composure and your weaknesses are seen through, it is easy to get in the game and get out, and you will be out of the game for the second time.

　I am thinking about buying another desk today. I sit cross-legged on the bed and type every day. After sitting for such a day on Sunday, I feel that the blood in the lower body is not circulating.
　　
　
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