128. Match-fixing?
"Pong! ~ā
At the seaside baseball field, Watanabe, who was pitching off Mound, was complacent about a slow ball that had just deceived Kasuga. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
However, Watanabe's Deser didn't last a few seconds, and Hayakawa behind him kicked off the pitcher's mound: "You're a ghost, you're just a slowball ball that doesn't spin!" It's okay to deceive this kid Kasuga, but if you want to deceive an old fritter like us, do you think it's okay? Stupid..."
"Huh!? No spins!? After hearing this fresh word, Kasugamo in the strike zone immediately asked Anye, who was a catcher, curiously: "Senior Anno, what's going on with this not spinning?!" ā
After hearing the question, Anno answered Kasuka's question with a smile: "The non-rotating variable speed ball is one of the slow ball change balls, because its index finger and middle finger do not completely suppress the rotation force of the baseball body when it is shot, and although the baseball has a very fast ball speed at the moment of shooting, in the subsequent flight process, the ball speed will be hindered by wind and air because the baseball itself does not rotate strongly, and the speed will be further reduced. Finally, before the base point, the ball speed will form a clear contrast with the speed at the moment of shot, making the hitter uncomfortable, unable to catch the best time to hit, and miss a change of ball path to strike! Do you get the idea!? ā
"~~~" Kasugamo was very surprised after hearing this: "I'll go, it's okay like this!" ~~ Didn't you say that the baseball can only accelerate after shooting!? Why can you still slow down?! ā
Yasuno replied, "It has to do with the fingering of your ball, you can go over there and ask Hayakawa-kun and Watanabe-kun about this!" ā
"Watanabe, let me ask you, how did you throw that slow ball just now!?" Kasugayun didn't say a word, and went directly to ask Watanabe to ask for advice.
At this time, Watanabe was very arrogant: "What's the matter, my move is not worse than your fast ball, right!?" ā
"Oh! ~~ yes, tell me how the hell did you do this!? ā
"Hey, hey~~" Watanabe grabbed a finger shape at this time and introduced: "Zanzan~~ Just add multiple fingers like this!" ā
The fingering of Watanabe's right hand to grasp the baseball made Kasugamo feel very special when he saw it, which is a finger shape in which the index finger, middle finger, and ring finger are stretched out and then rolled up to hold the baseball, and the fingertips of the thumb and little finger are opposite each other against the baseball body.
Watanabe explains, "The middle finger and index finger are the easiest to exert force when throwing a normal speed ball, but if you add the ring finger, the degree of afterburner is greatly reduced!" I didn't spin the ball with those three fingers at the moment of throwing, so the ball was what you see! ā
"Awesome! ~ā
This is Hayakawa reminding Kasugamo out loud: "Actually, Watanabe's ball is not really finished yet!" ~If he can do the same action as he throws a fast ball, but the speed of the ball is the opposite of the hard throw of his arm when he throws the ball...... This kind of strong contrast change ball, combined with the speed ball, is definitely a big killer! ā
"It's annoying, aren't I learning to master it!?" Watanabe complained unhappily.
After saying this, Watanabe stopped caring about Kasugamo and Hayakawa, who were standing behind him, and continued to hold the ball and step on the pitcher's board to start throwing the ball.
Watching Watanabe throw 5 balls on the pitcher's mound and shoot quickly, but the ball speed was slow and slow, Kasugamo was very worried and asked Hayakawa beside him, "Is such a ball really threatening!?" No matter how I look at it, it looks like it's very good! ~ā
Hayakawa smiled and said, "Of course, Watanabe is just practicing this kind of ball now!" When he is in the real game, if he uses it with a speedball, this contrast between fast and slow is definitely enough for the hitter to drink a pot and choke! ā
"Fast or slow!? Contrast!? ~" After hearing Hayakawa's analysis, Kasugamo couldn't help but imagine that image in his mind.
First, the fast ball clears the way, causing the hitter to be nervous;
Then throws a slow ball that looks like a fast ball, so that the player is too fast to swing the bat, and the ball is late......
Thinking of this, Kasugayun showed a hint of playfulness on his face: "Hehe, it sounds like it's a little interesting!" ~ā
At this time, a call came from the rest area: "Spring, come here!" ā
On the court, Kasuga Yunxun looked for prestige and found that it was the coach Kawano who was waving at him there, so he said goodbye to Hayakawa and the two, and trotted all the way to the rest area.
Leaving Hayakawa and Watanabe standing on the pitcher's hill, looking at Kasugamo walking away, a worried look appeared in their eyes.
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On the other side, Kasuga, who trotted all the way back to the rest area, came to coach Kawano and asked, "Coach, you called me!?" ā
"Yes! ~" Coach Kawano said to him: "Take these two films and watch them carefully, and after watching them, write a copy of your thoughts tonight and hand them in to me tomorrow!" Listen, I want to see something you feel and not perfunctory, understand!? ā
"Hai~" Kasugayun agreed a little hesitantly, but the movements of his hands were not slow, and he quickly picked up the two video tapes in the hands of coach Kawano.
"Go ahead, your task today is to finish watching these two films and write out your findings!"
"Oh! ~"Kasugayun was a little puzzled at this time, he didn't do good training but asked him to watch the film, what the hell is this!?
But out of trust and obedience to coach Kawano, Kasugamo finally left the stadium with two pieces and went back to the hostel where he stayed first.
After walking for about 15 minutes, Kasugamo returned to the hostel alone.
After greeting the hostess, he went to the corner of the cafeteria on the first floor of the hostel, put the tape in his hand into the video recorder and pressed the play button.
Then he took a notebook and a pen and sat down nearby, and began to watch the movie quietly.
Soon, there was a picture on the TV!
I saw that the first thing that appeared on the TV screen was a standard baseball stadium, and Kasugamo noticed that there were many spectators in the stands of this baseball stadium, and the boiling voices looked like the scene of the Japanese professional baseball league.
And the subsequent flip of the screen also confirmed his guess, this is indeed a professional baseball game between two teams in the Pacific League, the Orix Bulls vs. Hokkaido Ham Fighters.
Since it was a private recording, the picture that Kasugamo saw at this time was from the stands not far behind home plate.
This is the best position to watch the ball right now, and you can clearly see the changes in the path of each ball thrown by the pitcher mound on the field, and the various reactions of the hitter to the pitcher.
On TV, the game is on!
Kasugamo watched the game carefully and carefully......
At the beginning, Kasugamo saw that the match was dominated by the Orix Bulls and the Hokkaido Ham Fighters.
As for the configuration of the other players on the field, Kasugamo didn't know much about it, and watched the pitcher who was staring at the pitcher Qiu Dengban on the field.
After the start of the game, Darby, the pitcher of the Ham Fighters wearing a red jersey, threw a terrifying speed ball with a speed of up to 150 kilometers per hour at the beginning of the game, shocking the audience.
Then he easily eliminated the first hitter with two slow balls with a huge contrast of 128 and 127 kilometers, which made Kasuga, who was watching the game video, really feel the effect of the change of fast and slow rhythm for the first time, and how much of a threat it posed to the hitter!
However, what really surprised Kasugamo was just the beginning!
As the game progressed slowly, Kasugamo began to notice something very strange.
That is, after the starting pitcher of the Ham Fighters Darby threw a speedball with a super high ball speed in the opening court, and then the ball was good no matter what kind of ball he thrown, he never saw Darby throw a ball with a ball speed of more than 135 kilometers, and almost all the way to the slow ball with an average speed of 128 kilometers, dragging the opponent's line to death!
And what shocked Kasugamo even more was that in such a low ball speed, Darby, a professional pitcher, was only successfully hit by the opponent in this game, but did not lose the score.
This is a big surprise to Kasuga-un!
After he watched the whole video, Kasugayun widened his eyes and exclaimed, "I'll go, is there such a god!" ~~The ball speed is less than 130, and few people hit it, is this still the level of a professional baseball game!? ā
At this time, after watching the video, he began to have a doubt in his heart: Could the players on both sides of this game be playing match-fixing!? (To be continued.) )