Ace of Diamonds Golden Boots Silver Rod

Chapter 158 The final change

"Although we have won the recent practice games, our hitting still needs to be strengthened, and the shortcoming of unstable scoring still exists. Without me, will you have to rely on luck to score?

Although our team’s small ball tactics have a high scoring rate!

But get on base! Get on base!

Is getting on base all about luck?

Or specifically bullying weaker teams to increase on-base percentage?

What a joke! You guys!

If you enter the country like this, you won't win a few games. If you are unlucky and encounter a strong team, do you want to lose in one round?

The recent training has doubled for me!

The swing of the bat tripled!" Not long after the school started, Sendō discovered that the team's hitting skills had still not improved. Except for Wakana and Sawamura, everyone was said to be unable to hold their heads up at all.

As their bodies grow and their physical fitness improves, they have made obvious progress, but the same goes for their opponents. But as their bodies grow, they should intensify their training skills.

Swing speed and other details also need to be re-familiar. Their feelings are not very sharp, so they can only increase their training intensity.

For this reason, Sendō himself tried his best and checked a lot of information. Even coach Nakanishi only gave him the method of holding a short bat.

After two weeks of increasing the amount of training, everyone finally began to adapt to the bonus brought by improved physical fitness.

However, there is no way to develop the feel of the ball. Their swing can basically keep up with the ball of junior high school students, but even Kondo, who has the best catching ability, starts to lose his on-base rate when facing strong pitchers.

Although the forward hitting point and the swing without raising the leg make up a lot, the two are basically offset when the ball is hit in a fixed direction to help oneself or a teammate run the base.

To put it simply, there are two improvements, which enhance the ability to hit the ball. Because the ball is soft, it will not turn into a very close ground ball like a hard ball.

But when you want to hit it in a certain direction, it will cause delays and cause the ball to turn into a ground ball or even miss. After all, pulling and pushing are advanced hitting techniques.

"Pull and hit, push and hit? What if we give up these two skills?" Xiandao thought, and suddenly became energetic when he thought of this.

“Without lifting your legs, moving your hitting point forward, and holding a short bat, what would happen if you gave up your pulling and pushing skills and went in the direction where you are strongest?

I mean, this is a cult for baseball, right? Cult.

Well, there are quite a lot of cults in our team, after all, we are junior high school students! All nine infielders came out.

I always feel like I have heard of this style of play somewhere. It must have been an anime I watched in my previous life!

But I always feel like that person, like me, values ​​practice more than theory. (Handsome coach Araki. That’s the academic team in the autumn season!)

There is no other way, let’s try it tomorrow! sleep!"

……

the next day,

Sendō himself used the whole court as a hitting pitcher. It was not a serious duel. Every ball was played on the same pitch for them.

After no one has hit 10 goals,

"How do you feel after playing the ball in left field, center field, and right field? In which direction do you feel the ball is the strongest and smoothest?"

"I'd say hit the back of left field with all my strength!" Kondo was the first to speak!

The final result is the direction of the hit, that is, the right field hits the left field, the left field hits the right field, the same direction as the bat swing, and the direction of the head-on collision with the ball.

"That's right. If you hit pitches, your batting average will be higher, but it's really not easy to create long hits.

However, putting does not increase the batting average by improving the ability to catch the ball. It can also cause the ball to roll out if the ball is not hit well. It is not suitable for everyone.

All the methods to improve the catch point have been used, now the main thing is to make the ball fly farther and stronger! Xiandao thought to himself after hearing everyone's answers.

Pushing is hitting along the ball as if it is refracted, while pulling is a reflection. Of course, pulling is stronger!

"Then everyone should have discovered that the strongest direction of your hitting is the same direction as your strike zone!

So how about hitting the ball in the strongest direction no matter what the ball is? "

"But!"

"You want to talk about baseball's hitting theory, right? But theory is theory after all, and only what suits you best through practice is real.

It is true that hitting the ball in the opposite direction of the runner can make the base run smoother for the runner!

But that's combined with top hitters, who have the skills to hit all kinds of balls in the desired direction.

Top pitchers have pitching skills that try to direct the hitter in the desired direction.

Even the major leagues are starting to implement fly ball theory, right?

Even if they are not great pitchers and you are not great hitters, the result is the same. The pitcher will not let you hit the ball in the direction you like so casually.

What's more, you don't have this kind of skill in the first place, and then your shots will become weaker and weaker!

Therefore, what you can do is to practice your swing solidly and use the strongest ball to pass through the opponent's defense.

As long as the ball is hit far and creates a hit, won't it help teammates get the same number of bases? "

"Huh?" Everyone was very surprised by this subversive theory!

"Even if the fly ball is not hit well, it will be more helpful in advancing the base than the ground ball. The ground ball can easily cause a double play, but the fly ball is almost impossible to cause a double play as long as the base finger is accurate!"

Just like the previous major league theory that change balls should wait until the end, they are indeed the best way to play in theory, but these theories are based on top hitters and pitchers.

These theories are not universal to the uneven world of student amateur baseball.

Make changes, sacrifices and choices based on the actual needs of the team.

If you want it all, first become a top hitter who can compete with any pitcher." When they were surprised, Sendao once again came up with the benefits of this style of play and the subversive but correct logical thinking!

"Strength and swing speed that are not inferior to the power of the ball are what you guys who lack physical strength, skills, and physical fitness need most! Isn't it?"

Sendō and Coach Araki have very similar ideas, not the most perfect but the most suitable.

So what Sendō proposed is slightly different from what Coach Araki said to his players.

The two teams have many similar shortcomings, but there are also differences. What Wanggu High School needs is continuous hits and on-base hits!

What Chicheng also needs is stable hitting, but Chicheng has mature small ball tactics compared to junior high school students. As long as he hits base, he has a high probability of scoring.

All it takes is a hit at a critical moment and not a miss at a critical moment.

So what Coach Wang Gu wants is a hit, while what Chicheng wants is for the ball to fly far and then steal bases crazily. After all, they are playing soft balls. If the ball flies far, there will naturally be a high probability of a hit.

……

Sendō's idea was easily accepted by everyone. After giving up hitting those messy things in that direction and focusing on swinging the bat with all his strength to hit strong balls, the number of balls hitting good lines began to increase significantly.

However, another shortcoming was exposed, the ball did not fly as far as expected.

what to do? Add a weight training quilt.

However, weight training for junior high school students or even high school students is no joke. It requires professionals to control the speed of weight gain and how much weight gain will not affect the speed.

So Sendō called Coach Nakanishi overnight.

A complete plan was made within a few days, with the intention of completing the final transformation before summer.

That is to say, gain weight as reasonably and safely as possible while maintaining the hitting feel, base running and other aspects.

The amount of training increased again and everyone was miserable.

Almost all of them train to the edge of their limit. In the first few days, everyone has to walk on the field for half an hour to replenish energy before they have the strength to go home after training.    half a month later,

"Ping!..."

"Snapped!"

"In! ... a left-field home run!"

"You can still do it as long as you work hard! Kondo!!!"

"Yo Xi! I'm coming too! Wake up! Sendō!" Sawamura was extremely excited after seeing Kondo hit a home run with a ball fed by Sendō during training. He thought he could do it!

"Hey! You haven't participated in heavy training or batting practice in the past half month. Who gave you the courage? Or where did you get the confidence to think that you can hit a home run?" Sendao looked at Ze Murata's expression made him complain in his heart.

"Asshole! Go run for me!" But he just said it and drove him away!

Hitting training had nothing to do with him. When he saw Kondo's ball flying out while running, he ran over at lightning speed and grabbed the helmet and bat from nowhere to hit him.

Immortal Dao will not tolerate him and will simply drive him away!

"Hahaha!" Everyone laughed at this funny scene!

"Same for you, this is just feeding the ball. You know the path of the ball in advance and it is easy to hit. Hit it farther for me, otherwise...,

hey-hey! "The Immortal suddenly turned into a devil.

"Uh! We know!" Now everyone is honest!

"Ping!"

"Didn't you eat? Try harder to fly further!"

"Ping!"

"You should also be more accurate!"

With this two-pronged approach, the on-base rate finally stabilized. As long as they are not distracted, adding Xian Dao will definitely be a terrifying line.

Then the Golden Week training camp arrived.

(Golden Week is a period of several holidays in Japan around the beginning of May, followed by a week-long holiday. The dates are not necessarily specific every year, but they are all on the same day.)

Xian Dao won't be as tossing as high school teams. The bodies of junior high school students can't bear it, but everyone is tortured enough by Xian Dao.

Xian Dao itself was not having a good time, because Fumino moved into his house again, and the most terrifying thing was sharing a room with him again!

Don’t ask, it’s just like this every year!

Sendō's room can see the stars, and Sendō has to watch Fumino and don't let her go through her things. Plus, the two of them are childhood sweethearts and often shared a room when they were young!

As for Fumino's reason for looking at the stars, of course it is only part of it.

And the two of them

Sendao's room was both big and small, (there were a lot of things) so the bed was put away, the table was set up against the wall, and the two of them slept on tatami mats on the floor!

So the Immortal Golden Week lived a life without shame or shame (actually in dire straits).

But with Fumino's arrival, both Sawamura and everyone are in high spirits.

There's nothing I can do about it. As a genius in liberal arts, it's just a few words. If I want you to cry, I have to cry. If I want you to scream, I have to scream!

"Training seems to have changed a lot compared to summer!" First Tianwen found that there were many new items added to the training content that were not available before!

"We are also sitting around trying various things, and we have been making changes for more than half a month!"

"Change is a good thing, staying the same is going backwards. So is there progress?"

"Just so-so!"

You can't praise them. If you praise these guys any more, they will go to heaven.

"That's it!" Fumino understood the hint of Immortal Dao!

There was a practice match on the last day of Golden Week, and the opponent happened to be Sakura Girls!

The practice rounds are over and the summer split is not far away!

Thinking about immortality makes me feel a little uncomfortable, just like before the college entrance examination, I want to be liberated early but also want to postpone the exam day by day to arrive later.

Moreover, Xiandao was having a very uncomfortable time this week.

Why? Because I can’t keep the snacks I made!

In Fumino's words, after studying so hard, you must replenish your energy. You have to add one or two extra meals in the evening, and the extra food is Sendao's poor snacks, desserts, and ice cream!

Xiandao couldn't wait to catch her and spank her!

The lazy Xiandao had no choice but to continue buying ingredients to replenish the number of snacks. Otherwise, what if she wouldn't let herself reach out to eat?

What can Xiandao do? He is also in despair!

I even prayed that the Golden Week would end soon, otherwise my workload would be too high! ’.

And we have to prevent Fumino from reaching out!

Then there is that classic dialogue!

"What do you mean?"

"That's what it means!"

Then Fumino could only leave in anger!

Talking back is just showing off in front of the immortal, but you still have self-awareness.

But she became even more determined to get good cooking skills.

"We'll see!" Fumino thought, clenching his fists.

Thanks to Fumino, Sendao felt that every golden week was unusually long. If it was before junior high school, it would be fine, and he would be fine if he had a longer holiday.

But now, hehe!

However, whether it’s funny or crying, Golden Week is finally over!

By the way, the result of the practice match against Sakura Women's University was 8-3.

Chicheng's change of playing style and pursuit of hits have made great progress. After special training, the physical gap between boys and girls began to appear.

If you can't hit the ball well, use your strength to force it out. If you can't hit the ball, you can also hit it and hit it out.

It doesn't matter if the ball is fast enough, even if the direction of the ball is not good, or the landing point itself is not good, are you afraid of hitting the bases?

Are you afraid that there will be a lot of runners in front of you on the immortal road?

But even so, Chicheng still lost, but the opponent was so shocked that he broke into a cold sweat.

After all, this style of play is very suitable for Chicheng now.

If you don't have a fairy, you can score points one by one, and you can even get points steadily in a few innings. If you have a fairy, you can also rely on hits to pile up runners, forcing you to have a showdown with him.

However, for the upcoming summer majors, he chose to walk even if the bases were loaded.

In the end, it seems that it's really unclear who would win if the walk wasn't so extreme.

This is the sincerity after the Golden Week.

　Please vote for me in this new month!

　　

　

(End of this chapter)