5. First pitch training
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it has been 13 days since Kasugamo joined the Aoba High School baseball club. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
During this period, Kasuga and a group of more than a dozen new first-year rookies came to the school's baseball field every afternoon after class to receive specially arranged training for them from Katsuhei Anno, a senior from the baseball department's three military reserves.
Of course, although it is training, it is actually nothing more than running to practice physical fitness, and then practice throwing and catching with each other in pairs, or a group of people with a bat and wave stupidly at the air, as if everyone can hit a home run.
In short, as far as spring clouds are concerned, such days are really boring.
Yes, boring, baseball is really boring.
This is the truest thought of baseball in Kasuga's heart after being exposed to baseball for more than 10 days.
But then again, it's no wonder that Kasuga Cloud has such thoughts.
At first, Kasuga Cloud has only just learned some baseball rules, but let alone playing, even the training on weekdays is very hard and difficult.
He had no experience in baseball before, and he didn't even know what kind of competitive sport baseball was, so he naturally suffered a lot in training compared to other novices who had experience!
So in the past 13 days, Kasugamo has spent most of his time just practicing physical fitness and strength, as for baseball skills, the only thing Katsuhei Anno taught him was the one that threw and catched, and even the blow made Katsuhei Anno say that he would guard the guard first and then send the others away.
Of course, although it is said that it is not taught, but the usual practice of swinging the baton Kasugamo still has to participate, but like when I didn't enter the baseball club before, I can practice this kind of training on the ball machine when I come to test, and now Kasugamo can only think about it.
In this regard, Kasugayun also expressed his understanding, after all, he is not a secondary two human with secondary two disease, nor is he an idiot like a certain basketball master, who can come up with a one-handed split dunk and finally dunk himself to the rebound.
Kasugamo is just a boy with good motor nerves, so for things like how to learn to play baseball and how to get started quickly, he still obediently listens to the guidance of his seniors!
……
It was just over 4:30 p.m., and the afternoon sun was particularly fierce, shining on the unsheltered open-air baseball field.
At this time, Kasugayun was in a corner of the court with a group of freshmen who were also first-yearmen, practicing throwing and catching balls with each other a few meters apart.
This is already a training subject that he has been thundering on the court in recent days.
It's just that you will get tired of playing too much with the same thing, so let alone spring clouds at this time, even other first-year rookies are a little absent-minded about throwing training.
Some people even murmured from time to time when they were throwing and catching the ball: "It would be nice if I could go on the court and practice!" ~”
Before the speaker could finish sighing, someone on the other side shattered someone's dream with a mallet: "What do you think! ~ We rookies still stay here obediently and practice how to shoot and catch the ball well, and how to swing the bat to play better; As for things like going up to the pitch to actually defend or strike drill...... Don't you see that the seniors of the three armies have asked the seniors of the first and second armies to go out to play, so that they have the opportunity to play and receive real training!? So, let's think about the training on the field~~"
"Oh~~ That's what I thought, isn't this okay!?"
"Che~~~ Do your daydreams, boy!"
“~~”
At this time, Hisachi Watanabe, who practiced throwing with Kasuga-yun, was throwing the ball to Kasuga-yun and asked, "Hey~~ Kasuga-kun, what do you think!?" It'......"
"No idea! ~" Kasugayun replied very dryly.
"Don't you want to go out on the field and practice for real!?" Hisachi Watanabe looked at Kasugamo a little strangely and asked, "Come on, it's completely different from us practicing in the corner, aren't you looking forward to going up and practicing yourself!?" ”
"Expecting it to work!? It's not that you don't know that I'm a rookie, a complete layman, do you still expect me to be able to defeat those seniors of the three armies as soon as I go up!? ”
"How is this possible~" Watanabe Hisachi immediately retorted: "Although the strength of the seniors of the three armies is not too strong, it is more than enough to abuse us rookies, I don't want to offend the seniors to be rectified!" ”
In Japanese schools, not to mention baseball clubs, even some other sports clubs, if their members want to be promoted and get better training resources, one of the ways is to defeat those seniors who have a certain amount of training resources, and obtain resources in the name of justice.
This kind of community survival rule, which is a bit of a law of the jungle, is actually a way for the school to train students to better enhance their competitiveness!
It's just that the consequence of doing so, the challenger usually has only two results: first, he defeats his predecessors, erects a prestige, and is respected; Second, he was defeated by others, and then he was ridiculed for the title of disrespecting his predecessors, until he successfully challenged again to clear his name;
However, it is easy to make the following mistakes, but it is extremely difficult to achieve results.
Especially in baseball, which requires more skills, if you want to get ahead in the club, a rookie must not only have a brave heart, but also have good baseball skills or talent!
And these things are embarrassing, Kasuga's body just happened to be out of stock, so for going to the court to receive more formal training, such thoughts are still daydreaming.
But the reality is so funny, when you don't have any idea about something, but this pie-in-the-sky thing just falls on your head.
No, when the first-year freshmen rookies were still talking about training, Anno Katsuhei, who was still training on the court, pulled a sturdy person and walked over to the first-year rookies.
Soon, the first-year rookie noticed the abnormality and stopped training one after another, looking at Katsuhei Anno and the sturdy senior, and cast curious glances.
After a while, Katsuhei Anno and Sturdy Man came to everyone and said, "Okay, rookies, let me introduce to you, this is Keisuke Aihara, a famous strong hitter in the three armies of our baseball club, and I are both in Class C of the second grade." In the past, he used to be the 7th baseball line of the Aoba Junior High School Baseball Club, and he was also famous in the baseball club of our school.
Well, no more nonsense.
Everyone has seen today that because of the competition, the seniors of our first and second armies will not come to the ministry for training today.
But before your training today, the coach has already explained that Aihara-kun and I will supervise and guide, and today's training content is actual combat and defense.
Okay, the rookies quickly put on your gloves and go up to the court, and then each choose their favorite guard position and stand, waiting for me and Aihara-kun to hit the ball, catch it as fast as possible and pass it back, understand!? ”
"Yes! ~"When the rookies heard that they could actually go to the court today to receive a real strike training, everyone was very happy and responded loudly.
After a while, the first-year rookies happily put on their gloves and came to the court to choose their favorite guard positions, waiting for the two seniors at home plate, Katsuhei Anno and Keisuke Aihara, to shoot the ball out and let them practice catching the ball in the closest way to actual combat.
"Are you all set!?" After all the rookies were in their positions, Keisuke Aihara shouted loudly.
"Yes! ~Please give me a lot of advice~"
"Come on, senior, I'm waiting! ~”
"Haha...... Finally, there's something fun.,Seniors, please advise me! ~”
Listening to the excited responses of the rookies one by one, Keisuke Aihara directly signaled Katsuhei Anno on the side to feed him the ball.
Then, with a 'stick', Keisuke Aihara swung the bat hard and knocked the ball out and shouted, "Come on, first ball, third baseman!" ”
"Department~"
As soon as he finished speaking, the third baseman's body was already moving towards the baseball that flew towards him.
"Pong! ~”
After easily catching the flat flying ball, I saw that the third baseman immediately made a move, stretched out his hands, moved the center of gravity of his left and right feet under his feet, and then quickly flicked his arm to pass the baseball into the gloves of Katsuhei Anno who was squatting in the direction of first base at this time.
Because the first base bag is the most important part of the defense, and it is also the base bag that catches the ball and kills the most hitters, so at this time, Anno Katsuhei is standing here, which is undoubtedly the place where these first-year rookies can test their skills the most.
"Not bad~ Come on, this time it's the first baseman, watch the ball! ~" After seeing his companion Yasuno catch the ball steadily, Keisuke Aihara on the side immediately began to strike a second blow.
"I'm waiting! ~”
"Peng~"
"Smack~"
This time it was a rolling ball, and the first baseman was a few steps away from the first base because Katsuhei Anno was on the board.
But baseball will not fly towards him immediately because the first baseman walked away, fortunately, the first-year rookie who chose the first base guard is also a baseball veteran, I saw him watch the ball fly out and quickly made a step adjustment, and after the running gloves against the ground in a submarine fishing moon-style action to catch the rolling earth, he quickly passed back to the first base, and then quickly passed back to the first base, and completed the receiving training in the gloves of Katsuhei Anno.
"Come again, Outfield~"
"Department~"
"This time it's a guerrilla~~"
"Department~"
"Nakano~"
"Received~"
The baseball flew out with a note, but it was not the turn of Kasuga, who was standing in the right field at the moment, to catch the ball, but it was also fast......
No, just a few balls later, Keisuke Aihara suddenly shouted and swung his bat: "Right fielder, watch the ball!" “
At this time, the call at home plate was heard, and Kasugamo immediately cheered up and watched the baseball fly out of home plate.
Since Kasuga's position was right field, and it was about 30 meters away from home plate, Keisuke Aihara hit a high fly ball this time.
The baseball flew high in the air in a deep arc, and finally fell sharply in the direction of the Kasuga cloud.
Kasugamo looked up and kept an eye on the baseball's fall, spreading the glove on his right hand to the sunny side as he moved, so that he could see where the baseball had fallen, so that he could easily catch the ball.
This is a small skill of guarding the high flying ball that Kasugamo was taught by Kasugamo in the second grade yesterday, although Kasugamo used it for the first time today, but he will do well if he learns quickly, and finally the baseball was firmly received by him into the glove, and then threw a long pass back to the hand of Katsuhei Anno on the first base.
"Peng~~"
"Huh!? ~“
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