Ace of Diamonds Golden Boots Silver Rod

Chapter 6 Talent (End)

"I am back!"

"Welcome back, it's a bit early today, what happened?"

"I was tested a little early today, but mom, today the coach told me that if I want to hit first, I can be a pitcher or catcher. He also said that he would let me enter the first team."

"Really? We should celebrate today. Do you want anything to eat tonight?"

"Beef curry! Put more beef!"

"I really love eating meat!"

"Of course, humans are carnivores!"

"Okay, I'll make you beef curry."

"well!"

As a foodie, Sendao lightly clenched his fist and whispered to himself.

At the beginning of the training after school the next day, Coach Nakanishi asked the old players to practice fielding, while he himself took the new players to start hitting practice.

The path of immortality once again came to an end. There are a total of five pitching machines inside, which are set to deliver a straight ball of 80 kilometers.

And on average each person has to hit dozens of balls.

The 80-kilometer straight ball is already very difficult for the new players. Most of them are empty balls and there are only a few pitiful infield ground balls.

But as the number of strikes increased, I started to hit the ball.

"Next is the last group, Sendō, Sasaki, Yamada, Sato, Kimura, you five, put on your helmets."

"Hi!"

"Hey~!" 5 people replied in unison, the one with the long tone was of course Xiandao.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!" Five pitching machines began to play the ball one after another.

"Pah! Pah! Pah! Pah! Soldier!"

The response was a variety of empty swings. Only Sasaki hit a point and hit a ground ball, while Sendō just watched without swinging.

This guy was distracted again before and didn't look at other people's swings at all. As a result, he didn't pay attention to the speed of the ball. Others were watching behind him, so Sendao used the first ball to observe.

"This bastard!"

When Coach Nakanishi saw this, he didn't know that Sendao had been distracted before, and he cursed in his heart.

But he didn't have an attack directly, not once or twice.

"Boo! Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah!"

The second ball is delivered.

"Bang! Bing! Bing! Boom! Clang!"

This time only one hit was missed, and Sasaki was able to hit a sure fly out of the infield for a long hit.

Sasaki is an outstanding member of the new team members who have had their tuition waived this year.

After all, those who dare to sign up for the Wildcats, except for some who are not short of money, and the rest, even if the team test is not ideal, are very confident in themselves.

The ball speed of 80 kilometers can be said to be impossible for other Little League players who have just entered the league to hit.

It is estimated that only the main players can hit the ball stably.

However, for guys like the Wildcats, it takes a few balls to get used to it.

However, everything was ignored at this time. Everyone stared straight at the ball that flew far away and hit the center field home run wire fence hard.

If it weren't for a closed hitting field, the ball would have flown steadily through the field's guardrail.

This includes coaches from both sides.

He never dreamed that some of the striking talents Sendō's father, Sendō Ichiro, mentioned were this.

He just wants to roar now. How talented is it to be able to hit a home run by just observing one ball?

When did the talent standard in baseball get so high?

It was just a bit too much for those kids.

But it was horrifying for him and the recorder who saw it.

If you are a beginner in the first year of high school, that is, 15 years old, and you practice batting for the first time, if one of the first few balls can hit a home run with a ball of 100 kilometers, and a ball with a distance of 120 kilometers or more can hit a hit ball, you can be called a hitter. A talented hitter that has only been seen in decades.

what is this? Sendao, who was born in November, is only 11 years old now!

(The protagonist in the Yotsuba game has just turned 11 years old. He can hit a home run on the second pitch of a 100 to 110-kilometer straight ball. Although there is some luck, it is easy to hit a long hit.

But he only started swinging the bat at the age of 3, and he is far inferior to a hitter of Dong's level.

MIX's top hitter should be at the same level as Dong. His younger brother is also a talented hitter, but as mentioned above, his first hit from the third grade to the first grade of high school was a steady home run with a 100-kilometer pitch. The 120 kilometers is an easy ride.

The protagonist is set to be a little better than them, because there are currently no top sluggers in the major leagues in Japan.

The talent intensity of the protagonist needs to be one step higher based on the standard of Thanos in the major leagues, so the 9-year-old without training is stronger than the 3-year-old Yotsuba game protagonist Mitsuki Shutamura, the steel-armed pitcher who swings a bat at the age of 11. )

After that, it was completely a personal performance of Sendō. The pitching machine has a fixed path, a fixed speed, and a fixed path. As long as you master the timing well, it is not difficult to hit. But only Sendao could fly that far with every ball.

Even Sasaki, who performed best besides this, only hit a home run. This kind of ball is still difficult for fourth grade students to hit home runs unless they start swinging the bat at a young age.

Xiandao completely relied on the power generated by instantaneous explosive power to forcefully sweep out of the field.

In the end, among these 20 balls, Sendō hit a total of 13 big home runs, except for the ones he watched initially, and the remaining 6 were just shy of the mark.

There is a saying about pitching machines. Only a pitching machine that can maintain a hit rate of more than 80% is qualified to compete with people with the same ball speed.

It was just a showdown, but this kind of long hit that was a full home run or close to a home run, and a ball thrown by someone with the same speed would only get hit. It should be said that it was not the same dimension at all.

Now what Coach Nakanishi is thinking about is his preparation for integrating into the first army.

110 kilometers is already the ultimate for primary school students, and even the ball speed of 100 kilometers is not slow for middle school students.

Even for junior high school baseball, 120 kilometers is not considered slow, and 140 kilometers has been a rare sight in ten years.

As for amateur school teams like junior high school baseball, there are many 80-kilometer pitchers.

As for Sendō's performance, the probability of hitting a home run with a real pitcher of 100 kilometers is very high.

The purpose of this strike was just to test potential and then start correcting everyone's striking form. Elementary and junior high schools are all about cultivating correct techniques to prevent incorrect technical movements and other reasons from harming the baseball life of players.

However, these have nothing to do with Xiandao. He has been taken away by coach Nakanishi for individual guidance.

The current Immortal is still an amateur, although he has done some training and is performing very well.

But that's only done with talent. If he gets used to the skills given to him before, he will do better and won't leave any trouble.

As for Sendō, coach Nakanishi no longer intends to train him step by step.

They will explain some theoretical knowledge about pitchers and catchers to him individually, and forcefully instill technical movements. Pitchers need to do a lot, but there is very little theory, and they need to be practiced slowly.

Therefore, the theory mainly explains the catcher, and practical training such as hitting and pitching is used to develop habits. Catcher knowledge is his old profession.

　These are the levels of immortality that rely purely on physical dynamic and static talents. After technical correction, they will be stronger. This is also a reality. Even if most geniuses don’t train, they will be no worse or even better than the average talent and desperate training. Just like Daisuke Matsuzaka, the Heisei monster. Junior high school teammates recalled that this guy didn’t train at all in junior high school, and only took it seriously in high school. After training for more than a year, he won consecutively in Koshien.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)