For Inspector Morita of Fuso Osetaya, there seems to be nothing difficult in the world. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

When I entered a university, I chose a baseball club because of my interest. Not only did he enter Koshien, but he also won the national championship.

When I wanted to study journalism, I would definitely not be able to get into the exam based on my grades alone, but I was qualified to be recommended for admission with the strength of baseball.

After graduating from university, everyone else started as an ordinary reporter. But Morita directly embarked on the path of anchor.

I have no interest in high consumption, and I bought a property with all my idle funds in the 80s, and sold it again in the early 90s because I was too lazy to manage it.

As a result, the difference between the largest price difference was made, and the bubble economy collapsed.

Now, after retirement, I was looking for something to pass the time, so I received an invitation from the baseball club of my alma mater to serve as a supervisor.

"This guy hasn't been devastated by the cruel reality at all."

Compared to Superintendent Morita, Yagi of the Peace School is considered a junior, and it stands to reason that it is not appropriate to use a title like "this guy".

However, Yagi was always a little unconvinced when facing Morita.

On the road of life, fate does not seem to be fair to two people.

And now Morita has taken over as the supervisor of the Fuso Daisetaya Baseball Club. The team he brought out seemed to be as optimistic as he was.

Especially in this autumn meeting, Morita's public request to the players is to take the victory and defeat lightly and hone their skills in actual combat.

When attacking, don't think about the smooth, don't think about the tactics. Every ball is more about the blow itself.

"In that case, wouldn't it be too natural?"

Li Yuanrang felt that the atmosphere of the Peace School Park was already free. Unexpectedly, today's opponent seems to be better in this regard.

"If it's a crackdown, it's really better to be able to fully implement this mentality."

As a fighter who is not too well-rounded, Yabe Akio always thinks about a lot of problems when he strikes.

The general belief is that baseball strikes are more effective when the mind is relaxed.

Nervousness or exuberance are taboos.

Although the ideal situation is to be completely rational and calm. But few people have done that.

If you retreat to the next best thing, the relaxed state of Fuso Daisetagani is really conducive to the play of the line.

And for the Yagi Superintendent of the Peace Academy, he cares about something else.

If you put the team-building policies of the two teams together. Morita's approach is more like a "righteous" side by the standards of a media person. In contrast, the School of Peace has become a villain.

This is the most unacceptable thing for the Yagi overseer.

Of course, Morita's strategy should be limited to the offensive side, and defense is another issue.

"If you pitch, you can't ignore the presence of the hitter."

Yabe said.

Now the opponent's blow is basically completely ignoring the presence of defenders on the side of the Peace School. I believe that if there are runners on base, their hitters will not think about the tactics of walking base.

But the situation with pitching is different.

It's hard for a pitcher to completely ignore the hitter and throw the ball like practice.

Crucially, the size of the hit zone depends on the height and stance of the hitter.

That's why sometimes a teammate is asked to stand in the strike zone to simulate a hitter during pitching practice.

The first batter at the Peace Academy was first baseman Masaoka.

There is another factor that the defenders cannot ignore, Masaoka is a left-handed hitter.

And Fuso Osetaya's pitcher Tominaga looks like an ordinary right-hand pitcher.

An ordinary straight ball is landed in the corner of the good ball area and is inserted into the glove by the handyman.

"How fast does this ball look?"

Supervisor Yagi in the rest area turned his head and asked Li Yuanrang beside him.

"About a hundred and thirty, right?"

Whether it's autumn or summer, the ball speed will only be displayed in the last few matches at Jingu Stadium in Tokyo.

In the first four or five rounds, you can only get the opponent's and your own ball speed data after the game.

But as a catcher, ball speed is an important indicator of your pitcher's status.

During the interval of training, Li Yuan let him start training on a whim to measure the ball speed with his naked eye.

The solution is not complicated.

The ball speed of the ball machine on the training ground is relatively stable. First, use the naked eye to observe the pitch of the ball machine at different speeds. It is then used as a reference to compare it to the ball thrown by the pitcher.

After a period of hard work, Li Yuanrang can now control the accuracy of visual ball speed to around five kilometers.

In terms of the speed of the ball measured by the naked eye, five kilometers is accurate enough.

But for Li Yuanrang's purpose at the beginning, it was used to judge the pitcher's game state today. A five-kilometer error is too great.

For example, a pitcher like Akio Yabe has an average ball speed of about 125 kilometers and a limit speed of no more than 130 kilometers.

The difference between the best and the worst is about 10 kilometres. And within the same game, the ball speed will also be three or four kilometers off.

In this case, judging the pitcher's state with a visual speed measurement with an error of five kilometers is probably not as accurate as the feeling of catching the ball with the catcher's glove.

But it can't be said that the skill that Li Yuan let spend time practicing a while ago is completely useless.

At least now it can be used to judge the opponent's ball speed.

The ball just thrown by the opponent's pitcher Tominaga was also collected by the manager of the handheld speed tester in the stands, Aki Suzuki.

The speed is one hundred and thirty-four kilometers per hour.

As a sophomore right-handed pitcher in high school, it's an upper-average ball speed. With a good base point, it is purely normal for the hitter Masaoka to fail to hit.

The second ball was a change ball that escaped to the outside corner.

"It's ...... Stretch the ball? ”

Li Yuanrang is not very accurate.

Masaoka is a left-hand hitter, while Tominaga is a right-hand hitter.

Most pitchers at the college level can't throw a change ball that escapes to the outside corner of the left-hand hitter.

There are only two kinds of balls that Li Yuanrang has seen in this direction, the ball with more longitudinal drops, and the jet ball with more horizontal changes.

Of course, these two types of balls are both Japanese names, and when it comes to the American ball world, there will be completely different classifications and names.

"Probably a stretching card......

Even the Overseer Yagi himself couldn't figure it out.

This type of ball, which relies on different wrist skills to produce a change to the outside corner of the left hitter, has a slight difference in the grip and throw of each pitcher.

If you don't look at the pitcher's hand holding the ball in slow motion, it's hard to tell the difference.

But no matter how you classify it. In short, the hitters in the strike zone are now facing a situation where there are no good or bad things.

Fuso's Osetaya's shooting partner is clearly not ignoring the hitter to do pitching practice.

The current pitching strategy is developed to face the left-hand hitter.

"If it's me, it's another outside corner."

Li Yuanrang in the rest area was deducing the opponent's ball.

And the opponent's actual next ball also coincided with Li Yuanrang's speculation.

A straight ball with a low outside corner. The hitter Masaoka did not swing the bat, but the referee awarded a good ball.

The outside corner of the good ball area is low and furthest from the hitter. As a left-hand hitter, Masaoka is actually less likely to face changing balls to the outside corner.

A stretch ball just now disrupted his judgment of the lateral space in the outside corner.

But the key to getting his strikeouts out was probably the possession of the opposing pitcher Tominaga close to the edge of the good ball zone.