Day 6 of campside training. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The main players of the Aoba Dodai High School baseball club, who stayed at the seaside inn early in the morning, did not get up early as usual, and after a quick wash, they hurriedly went out to the beach for various physical training.

Instead, they leisurely enjoyed a hearty breakfast in the hostel, and then everyone put on their jerseys and brought their equipment to the seaside baseball stadium for a pre-game warm-up.

Yes, warm up before the game.

Today is the final day of the training of the group, and in order to verify the strength of the main team of the whole team, the team coach Kawano specially applied for a friendly match invitation to a local high school baseball team, and the result is today's match between Aoba Dodai High School and Kamakura Famous Local Baseball High School - Toyo High School.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the two teams made an appointment for the start of the game.

Therefore, the players of the two teams and their respective coaches, logistics teams and others came to the court early to start the adaptive warm-up exercises.

At half past nine in the morning, the main players of Aoba Dodai High School on the court were all called back to the rest area by coach Kawano, and explained to them the personal tasks that everyone had to complete in today's game.

Leaving aside the others, our male pig Kasuga was tasked with not exceeding 130 kilometers per pitch when he relayed to the court......

This requirement means that Kasugamo can only throw a slow ball to solve the battle today, and cannot rely on his fast ball, which is already fast at a controllable speed of 140 kilometers, as usual, to win quickly!

It's hard enough to get to the spring clouds!

You know, the day before yesterday, he got two videos from his coach Kawano and started to learn some of the skills of slow ball.

In yesterday's training, Kasugamo didn't practice throwing slow balls much, so he just relied on some conceptual knowledge to play the pitching game......

Kasuga's face at this time was full of helplessness and nervousness: he could only use 8 points of force to pitch the ball, how could this be done! ~

At this time, Watanabe comforted Kasugayun in a voice on the side: "Rest assured, it's not a big deal, isn't it just for you to throw a slow ball!?" Just think of it as a weekday throwing practice! ”

"It's easy to say~"

"Hey~~" Watanabe picked up his own set with a snicker, and said to Kasuga who was about to go to the game: "If you are so unconfident, it is just what I want, and Uncle Ben can make a good pitch today!" Ha ha...... Watch the show you! ~”

"Fuck you, bastard~"

"Haha......"

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The game soon began in a friendly atmosphere with the referee signaling and the starters of both sides saluting each other.

First of all, the people who will play today on the side of Aoba Dodai High School are starting pitcher and 9th baseman Watanabe, catcher and 3rd baseman Yasano, 1st baseman shortstop Akai, 2nd baseman 3rd baseman Kobayashi, 1st baseman 4 baseman Aihara, 5th baseman shortstop (or 2nd base guard, responsible for the 1st and 2nd base bases) Makaki, 6 baseman Nakamato Sato, 7th right fielder Endo, 8th left fielder Hoshino.

In addition, the pitchers who will relay the play are Kasuga Cloud and Hayakawa, and the pure hitters who are preparing to play in the middle of the break are also Tsuchihara, Maki and Endo.

On the opponent's side, Kamakura Toyo High School, the starters included their main pitcher and 3rd baseman, Tachikura Ryoshi, catcher and 6th baseman, Nagaji Rakiya, 1st baseman and 2nd baseman, Machida Shigeo, shortstop and 4th baseman, Shinnosuke Arai, 2nd baseman and 8th baseman, Tomio Yamazaki, 3rd baseman and 5th baseman, Taiaki Hirosawa right fielder and 7th baseman, Masayuki Murata, and left fielder and 9th baseman Hideki Otoyo.

In the first half of the first game, Aoba Dotai attacked first because it was the away team, while the home team, Toyo High School, defended first.

The first player on the court at Aoba Dodai High School is still the fast running man Akai who we are familiar with, and I saw him confidently put on a chasing hitting posture, standing at the front of the strike zone and the sideline closest to home plate, and his upper body was slightly inclined to the direction of the base board at an angle of 10 degrees, and the whole person almost covered 1/4 of the base.

This one gave the opponent a super difficult blow situation, and immediately cheered up the people on the side of Aoba Daotai High School.

"Yo Xi, Akai, well done, just hit it right!"

"Up, up~~"

"Chase the pitcher~~"

"Akai-kun, give us a hard time, and strive for a good start~~"

"Yo Xi, leave it to me! ~" Akai confidently stood in the strike zone and replied.

On the other hand, after the two people from Toyo High School saw Akai do this, the two couldn't help but have some feelings about Akai.

"What a nasty guy! ~”

"Likura-kun, leave him alone, just shoot how you normally shoot, I'll catch the ball one by one, come...... The first ball, change, low in the middle, roll the earth, see if he can't play the bat! ”

Toyo High School pitcher Likura received the signal and immediately nodded in agreement, and then stepped on the board and threw the ball with his arm hard!

The range of action of the position is a little large, and Akai was a little unsure when he faced him for the first time, thinking that it was a speedball, so he hesitated to think of a stick and didn't dare to make a stick, and finally this ball was put by Akai.

But then Akai regretted it, because this ball was actually very easy to play, but it was just a change in ball speed of 130.

Originally, if it was cast according to the intention of the catcher Fujita, this ball should have been thrown with a bouncing bad ball to lure Akai to the bat. But when Licang pitched, maybe it was just at the beginning of the game, and his body was not fully in the game state, so he threw the first ball high, and it directly turned into a good ball with a high hanging bad ball and a good ball in the middle of the ball.

"Good shot! ~”

"Yo West~~" After Fujita caught the ball, he quickly passed the ball back, and signaled in sign language: "Don't be nervous about Likura-kun, come, continue to throw here!" ~”

The path of the second ball did not change, it was still a change ball with a low middle field.

This time, the position was thrown, and Akai was successfully induced to swing the bat.

But the end result was a throw-in.

On the third ball, Tachikura threw a risky inside corner chase ball, forcing Akai to dodge quickly.

The fourth ball was pitched at the edge of the good ball at the bottom of the outside corner, and Akai swung the bat out only to watch the baseball pass over the bat.

At this point, Akai had already used up 2 good shots in a row.

However, the opponent only had 2 bad shots, so it was Akai's turn to be chased back by the pitcher of Toyo High School.

In the end, Akai was struck out by a knuckle kick that gave the opponent Toyo High School pitcher Tachikura the first out of the practice game.

Before leaving, Akai and Kobayashi exchanged opinions.

Akai said, "Be careful, that guy's change ball is amazing!" ”

"Oh, I see! ~”

Kobayashi came on the court, and at this time, Fujita, the catcher of Toyo High School, was very familiar with it and immediately gave a matching code: "Likura-kun, fastball, throw it at your maximum controllable ball speed, come on, the first ball inside corner!" ”

Tachikura understood Fujita's intentions, so he threw the ball to a speed of about 138 km/h on the first ball, and the angle of the pitch was also tricky, and it was thrown straight to Kobayashi's waist and ribs.

This made Kobayashi can't help but avoid the first blow and raise the bat above his head, allowing the chase to pass the chase threat ball that grabs the edge of the good ball and goes into the base.

When it came to the second ball, Kobayashi guessed that the ball path of Tachikura was going to the outside corner, and he scooped it up with a stick and flew far away.

Unfortunately, because of the distance, the outfield defenders also had enough time to make up for the defense, and finally the ball was received by Murata in the outfield, and Kobayashi became the second hitter to be eliminated in this game.

At this time, the captain of the 3-batter team, Yasano, came on the field.

After the trial play of the first two teammates, Anno knew that the opponent Rikura was a pitcher who changed the ball path, and combined with the information collected before, the ball speed of Rikura was not very fast, so he put his body in an oblique strike posture as soon as he came up.

Standing in front of the left foot with the ball of the foot behind the body, and the right foot parallel to the center of gravity of the body, and the position of the Anno stand in the innermost part of the strike zone, this effectively expands the strike range to almost all areas of the good ball zone.

Sure enough, the pitcher at Toyo High School had an obvious sense of jealousy of Anno's pitching, and the first shot went straight to the bad ball in the low post of the outside corner.

Anno let it go.

The second ball was a slippery ball, and this time Tatakura used an upward float throw to hit the ball into the inside corner at a very flat angle.

For a moment, Yasuno couldn't see clearly that the bat hit a thrilling high fly ball from the left stand, and it was only about 50 centimeters away from the position where the third baseman used to be guarded.

On the third ball, Tachikura threw a diagonal curved ball with a large arc.

What seemed to be a high ball in the inside corner slid to a remote corner low in the outside corner before hitting the base, and Anno was tricked into swinging his bat.

At this time, Anno's strike list has 2 good goals and 1 bad goal, and the situation is very unfavorable to him!

I saw that he was very nervous and set up a posture, and then clenched the bat tightly with both hands: this ball, no matter what, must be hit, and the offensive can continue!

Anno, who was ready to come to his senses, focused all his attention on his right hand that was about to throw the ball, and began to predict: What will be the final decisive goal!? Finger forks!? Speedball!? Curveball!? Still is......

At this time, Licang raised his legs and strode out, and the movement of throwing his arms was ruthless and fast, which made Anye look at him as if he was throwing the ball with all his arms, so Anno misunderstood that this was a high-speed speedball ball thrown with all his arms.

Yasuno became nervous.

Soon, the baseball was thrown, and it was a very fast speedball.

Anno thought that the bet was right, and instantly swung his bat towards the bottom corner of the middle that he was sure of.

However, when Anno swung his bat, he realized that things were going to be bad: Damn, damn it, it was a slow ball!!

"Whew~"

That's right, in the end, Rikura threw a bold slow ball from the bottom corner of the middle as the decisive throw.

The bet is that Anno on the side of Aoba Dodai High School thinks that he wants to soar the ball speed and play tricky ball to win.

Likura made the right bet, so the baseball finally came to the base one step slower after Anno's swing failed.

"Peng~"

"Good shot, 3 good ball hitters out, offense and defense swapped!"

"Damn, that's too slow! ~~" After Anye's defeat, he couldn't help but spit out.

At this time, in the rest area, coach Kawano asked a logistics student standing next to him with a speed gun: "What is the speed of the last slow ball!?" ”

The logistics students looked at the numbers on the speed gun and said, "121 km/h, coach, it's a slow ball at a super slow speed!" ”

"Yes! ~~”

The one who asks is unintentional, but the listener is intentional.

At this time, when Kasuga, who was watching the game not far from the coach's side, heard the speed of the last ball, he couldn't help but think of the two game tapes that Coach Kawano had been watching for the past two days.

The pitchers of the professional teams also use this kind of slow pitching to play the game, so Kasugamo thought to himself, "Can the slow ball really be used as a winning weapon!?" ”

Kasugamo still doesn't believe this, so he can only continue to watch the game and see how Watanabe's slow ball is used, so that he can figure out how powerful the slow ball really is for himself.

Everything has to be practiced to get the truth! ~(To be continued.) )