28. Strong rescue, fastball power
After a period of chaos on the side of Aoba Dodai High School, the game finally calmed down again.
And the first-year team of Aoba Dodai High School also decided who would take over the relay pitcher for the final few innings of the unfinished game, and that was Kasuga, a baseball beginner.
Well, when Kasugamo entered the stadium wearing a baseball cap and gloves, not to mention how the people from Shirasugi High School on the other side would feel after they learned some information about Kasuga. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoEven in the rest area of Aoba Dodai High School, no one has much confidence in Kasuga's relay appearance at this moment!
After all, if a beginner wants to go up to the pitcher's mound and throw the ball into a good belt and make sure that the hitter won't hit it, it's like making it as hard as hitting a defender in a basketball game when you dribble just after half court and have to hit a long-range three-pointer in a row!
Here, Kasugamo finally walked up to the pitcher's mound in the middle of the court, came to the highest place on the mound, looked down at the pitcher's board under his feet, and thought: This is the most central position of this court...... Did Dad use to pitch in this position before!?
Thinking of some of the things that happened to his stepfather, Kasugamo couldn't help but froze on the pitcher's mound, and his appearance made everyone at Tokubasugi High School sneer at him.
"Stain~~ What kind of person, this is ...... How to run to the pitcher's mound in a daze! ā
"Hey~~ Aoba Daotai, why did you bring a fool up, did you admit defeat?!"
"It seems that Aoba Dotai they don't want to win~"
"How to win, their best pitcher in the first grade, Watanabe, has retired injured, and none of the rest can go up to the relay as a pitcher, how can I win!"
"Well, it was an easy game today...... If this is the case for the senior team, I guess it will be nice for us to meet Aoba when we play the Winter Championship in the future! ā
"Haha......"
Well, the arrogance of some human beings has always been like this, and when they can't see the situation clearly, they usually cheer their side on their side in this way.
But thanks to the blessings of these people, Kasugamo finally woke up from his memories, and saw the catcher Tsuchihara on the home plate area constantly waving at him and hinting at the sign language: Hey, stupid, come to your senses and practice throwing a few shots! ļ½
Kasugayun felt a little sorry, so he bowed his head and apologized to his next partner, Tsuchihara: I'm sorry, Tsuchihara, I'm starting to practice throwing!
Seeing that Kasugamo had reacted to his suggestion, Tsuchihara happily hammered down his gloves and crouched down in position: Come on, try to throw the ball in here......
Seeing this, Kasugayun nodded in agreement and began to practice throwing.
"Peng~~"
"Peng~~"
"Peng~~"
After three consecutive balls to practice throwing, Hasuga Yun deliberately controlled the ball speed not to soar too high, but to control the ball with all his might.
Of course, the effect is unknown, Kasugamo doesn't know much about the subtleties of the ball, only knows that the ball he throws can be received, and there is no obvious error in the position.
And Tsuchihara actually let Kasugayun move his arms, and kept him collecting it to practice throwing, and after every pitch, he shouted to Kasugayun 'good throwing'.
It's just that this picture doesn't feel quite right in the eyes of the opponent Baishan High School: ball speed, no! Qiuwei, pitifully weak! Ball control, beginner-level ...... Is such a person really a relay pitcher on the Aoba Dodai side!?
Thinking of this, another burst of sneering laughter rang out in the rest area of Baishan High School.
Soon, the game was about to start again, and at this time Tsuchihara finally stood up and shouted to Kasuga: "Hey~~ Kasuga-kun, throw your full arm and try ......"
"Department~~ Raise your arms with all your might!" Kasugayun agreed.
Then he stepped on the pitcher's board and began to throw the baseball in his hand with all his arm swing with the vibrating arm throwing method.
Due to the short time he learned to pitch and his exposure to baseball, his movements at this time were like a slow-motion replay, and he did a very clear move in one move.
Raise your leg and turn around, stand on your toes slightly, and then stride out with your left foot in the direction of home plate, but it is not the first time to stomp on the ground, but to tilt your body to the moment you are about to fall, and then your left foot stomps heavily and twists violently with the upper body of your body......
Seeing this, Takahashi, the coach of the Shirasugi High School team, suddenly pushed his eyes in front of his eye sockets with a gleam and thought: En!? ~~This kid......
Over there, after the Kasugayun on the pitcher's mound strode out with his left foot, his body was like a tornado driving the right arm that had been swung to the right back of his body, and continued to transmit the power of the Kasugayun to gather together with all his strength.
And when the power of the first tornado rotation pitch in the upper body of the body is gathered, Kasugayun previously drew a circle rotation in his right ear by rotating his body and swung to the right rear of the body, which was already at a certain anti-joint angle, which would immediately accelerate the arm according to the last arc trajectory of the circle, and then the entire arm from the shoulder to the arm, to the elbow joint, forearm, wrist, and finally to the middle finger and index finger that pressed the baseball body......
Until this time, the power gathered by Kasuga's full swing this time was all condensed on his middle finger and index finger in an instant, and the force reached the baseball in his hand that was about to be thrown.
"Whew!! ļ½ļ½ā
The ball was thrown, and this time, the baseball's air-breaking wind was obviously different from the previous level, which was particularly clear and audible.
After only about 0.3 seconds, perhaps sooner or less, the baseball violently broke through the air and crashed headlong into the glove in front of the catcher Tohara, who was crouching in the home plate area to catch the ball.
When the gloves and baseball collided, there was a loud bang, like the sound of the moment at the scene of a car accident: "Bump!! ļ½ā
Suddenly, the loud noise attracted the attention of everyone in the audience, except for a few people from Aoba Dodai High School who knew something about Kasuga-yun, everyone else was shocked by Kasuga-yun's all-out throw: Nani!! ļ½ļ½ļ½
After a while, someone finally came back to his senses, it was Akai from the Aoba Daotai, and he asked uncertainly: "That~~ That, the ball just now was, was it thrown by this kid from Kasuga!?" I said......"
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Well, at this time, many people are still in shock and can't answer Akai's question, but there are exceptions, such as Koji Nakamura, who has already seen Kasuga's cloud pitching and trained him to be the ace pitcher of Aoba Dotai High School like he is now, Koji Nakamura, at this time a smile of relief appeared on his cold face, as if answering Akai's words, and as if he was talking to himself: "One ball to shake the soul!! ~That's the situation in front of you...... This time the game will be even more interesting! ā
Standing next to Nakamura was Kawano, the coach of the Aoba Dodai High School baseball club, and although the corners of his mouth did not smile at this time, if you looked closely, you could see that his eyes covered under the large sunglasses were smiling confidently.
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After the goal, Kasugamo didn't practice throwing with all his might, because the referee over there had already begun to signal the two teams to continue the game that had just ended.
Due to the accident injury of his friend Watanabe, although the ball he threw was beaten by the Inuya of Shirasugi High School into an infield rolling earth, but Watanabe was in pain with a sprained arm, and he did not go up to pick up the baseball to pass out the guard at the first time, but asked the third baseman Ryuichi Horibe to come over to help the guard, so the inuchi roll of the inuya rolled the earth by him, and he turned it into a successful Uchino hit, allowing him to attack the first base.
So after the game restarted, the defensive situation on the Aoba Dotai side was two outs, there were people on first base, and the next batter was the second batter on the side of Shirasugi High School, and Kyohei Arita had the fastest foot in the team.
The referee beckoned the hitter to enter the strike zone, and Arita from Shirasugi High School chose to hit on the right, and Aoba's catcher Tsuchihara immediately made a judgment based on Arida's position this time, and made a code to the Kasugayun on the pitcher's mound after his analysis: Hey~~ Kasuga-kun, look at it, the first ball, the middle ball road, the speed ball, you have to raise your arms with all your might, don't care about the hitter on the base, just focus on solving the person in the strike zone, understand!?
Worried that Kasugamo wouldn't be able to understand the sign language with the ball, Tsuchihara made three consecutive ball-matching codes, so that Kasuga-yun, who was the first pitcher to read the ball-matching code in the game, looked a little blind: Okay, fastball, right in the middle of the ball...... Whew, it's really tiring to look at the code!
Despite this, Kasugamo responded to Capturer Tsuchihara's suggestion by nodding his head and standing up straight, holding his hands in front of his chest, his gloved hand in front of him, and holding the baseball tightly with a claw grip in his right hand before stepping on the pitcher's board with his right foot and signaling that he was about to throw the ball.
Soon, as soon as the catcher on this side of the home plate saw that Kasugayun was starting to step on the board, the glove he stretched out forward shook vigorously, and signaled: Come on, throw the ball here!
On the other hand, Arita, the second batter of Shirasugi High School, who was standing in the strike zone, looked like he was facing a great enemy, and his left foot was already standing on tiptoe to prepare for the strike when Kasugamo had just started to step on the board.
Both subconsciously paused for a second, and then Kasugamo began to raise his hands above his head, and at the same time, his left leg was raised high and turned sideways, and his right heel stood on tiptoe to begin to gather the strength of his whole body.
Then the left foot raised by Kasugayun made a forward leg kick movement, and at the same time the body leaned towards his left, and the left leg that he kicked out when he was about to fall suddenly stepped out, and then the rotation of the upper body of the body began, and the power was transmitted from the feet to the thighs, and then to the crotch to the upper body.
After completing the first rotation of the body, Kasuga's right arm begins to spin and flick with a second acceleration, which is a characteristic that distinguishes Kasuga's pitching posture from others.
At the same time, this is also recorded in the baseball diary passed down by Kasuga's stepfather, Kasuga's father, a pitching skill that only professional pitchers can understand.
The second acceleration began to transmit the power in the body to the shoulder, then to the forearm, to the arm, to the wrist, and finally to the middle finger and index finger, which directly exert force on the baseball, and with the twist of the wrist pressed downward, and finally the baseball was thrown violently by the spring cloud like a force to the ground.
"Whew!! ļ½ā
"Bump!! ļ½ļ½ā
"Good shot! ļ½ā
Although Arita in the strike zone had watched Kasuga's last practice shot before, and knew that the ball speed would be fast, so he consciously advanced the ball by several seconds, but when he really waited for the ball to come, he found that his movements were still slow!
"What a fast ball! ļ½ā
As soon as the ball crashed into the trapper Tsuchihara's glove, almost everyone on the two teams sitting in the rest area was shocked to their feet by Kasuga's powerful speedball. The remaining 7 people from Aoba Dodai High School, who were guarding on the court, were first shocked, and then shouted in surprise to congratulate: "Wow!! ~~ Cast beautifully, Kasuga-kun! ā
"You're amazing, good vote, Kasuga-kun!"
"Awesome, awesome, haha......"
"It's so fast~~"
"Haha...... Sure enough, it's still Kasuga-kun Niu Fork who said! ā
And the only person on the court who was not Aoba Dodai High School, the batter of Shirasugi High School on the first base bag was already gloomy at this time: "How is it possible!?" How could Aoba have such a strong pitcher!? Could it be that this is why Watanabe's kid is relieved to leave!? Hisachi Watanabe...... You wait for me!! ā
On the other side, in the rest area of the two teams, the two coaches consciously asked in unison to the students who were holding speed guns and notebooks to record logistics information materials: "What is the ball speed!" ā
Soon, the logistics students on both sides answered the questions of their respective coaches: "The report is that the ball is going at a speed of 135 km/h. ā
Hearing this result, the coaches of both sides had different emojis.
Takahashi, the coach of Shirasugi High School, changed his face: "135~~135 first goal, how is it possible!?" ļ½ļ½ā
And Coach Kawano of Aoba Dodai High School nodded slightly and ordered: "Continue to pay attention to observe and collect information!" ā
Several students who were in charge of collecting logistics intelligence materials immediately shouted respectfully: "Department! ļ½ā
At this time, the second ball that Kasuga Yunnaka will throw after coming on the court is about to start.
Step on the board, raise your legs, step on, gather strength, and throw your arms violently.
The second ball thrown by Kasugamo was still a speedball, and the ball path did not change to the middle ball path, but because of the speed of the ball, the player Arita was half a second slower and swung into the air.
"Whew!! ļ½ā
"Bump!! ļ½ā
"Two good balls~"
"Whew!! ļ½ā
"Bump!! ļ½ā
"Three good balls, the hitter is out! ā¦ā¦ The attacker is three out, and the offense and defense are swapped! ā
"Damn it~~"
As soon as he came up, Kasugamo immediately saved the field with three powerful speedballs, and injured Watanabe, the pitcher who was still a little proud of Aoba's side, and all the people from White Eel High School who could easily score from then on all slapped them in the face in the most direct and rude way.