Chapter 5: Special Treatment

"What special training?"

Li Yuanrang felt that he was just a newcomer who made up the numbers, and he should not have anything to do with the word special training. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"It's fierce training."

Yabe corrected.

Captain Fukushima's fierce training is just a legendary concept for the members of the Peace School Baseball Club. But for Akio Yabe, it was a real experience.

Fukushima was the team's main player in middle school. In his third year, Yabe was a newcomer to the first year.

In just one intra-team practice match, Yabe overpowered his third-year seniors and became a Shoin catcher. Of course, the ACE with whom he was partnered at this time was not Fukushima. But as the team's captain, Ichihei Fukushima is in charge of the team's training program.

Like Sato in the high school, there is no full-time coach in the middle school most of the time, only a nominal tutor.

For two months, Yabe had no idea how he had resisted. Several times more basic training than other teammates, and spare time is also crammed with a lot of tactical theory knowledge learning. If it weren't for the fact that you could get a starting position in every game, you would really have the illusion that you are being targeted as a target for bullying.

In fact, Fukushima is such a person, he never says anything, but the more he likes his teammates, the stricter he becomes.

That year, thanks to the outstanding performance of the ace pitcher, the Peace School Middle School reached the semifinals of the West Tokyo Conference. Most of the main players in the third grade were snatched up by the nearby high school baseball powerhouse. Fukushima declined all invitations and chose to go straight to the middle of the school.

Because there is no main player from the middle school days, the level of the baseball team in Fukushima this school year can only be regarded as enthusiasts, and it is impossible to call them "college ball" at all.

When I was promoted to the third year of high school, my third-grade teammates, who were originally playing tickets, became members of the ghost department on the grounds that they wanted to go to cram school or something like that, and no longer attended the training.

This is one of the reasons why the baseball team is not able to put together a starting lineup right now.

The same is true for the insufficient number of first-year students.

After graduating from Fukushima, the junior high school baseball team hibernate for a year. After Yabe was promoted to the third year and took over as captain, the team once again reached the quarterfinals in Nishitokyo.

The main players were once again divided among the powerful men from all walks of life. But this time, Yabe didn't receive any invitations.

Although anyone with a modicum of common sense can see that he is the core driving force of the team. But the stunted stature has made most of the scouts at the baseball powerhouse doubt Yabe's future growth.

Once a boy stops growing up as a teenager, he may be at this height for the rest of his life.

For many high school baseball teams, the height of 1.65 meters may not be able to take on the responsibility of a catcher. What's more, in terms of strikes, Yabe also did not have a dazzling result at all.

Including Yabe, there were only two members of the first-year baseball team. Of course, now with the addition of Li Yuanrang, there are three.

"Why do you want to train fiercely?"

Li Yuanrang finished eating the curry on the plate and wiped his mouth.

"Probably because you don't have any basic skills."

Yabe didn't mean it.

Li Yuanrang's striking talent displayed in the previous test may not be visible to ordinary onlookers. But Yabe believes that Captain Fukushima was aware of it.

In particular, the selection items added later further validated Yabe's idea.

Fukushima really values Lee Wonrang very much. And not as a potential stock, but as a combat force.

About this, Yabe did not want Lee himself to know. He was worried that this would give Li Yuanrang too much pressure and unrealistic illusions about his abilities.

Although the talent is top-notch, Li Yuanrang is a complete novice in baseball after all. You have to start from scratch.

What's more, Fukushima has always been a person who is reluctant to reveal his thoughts. He must not want Yabe to leak out his importance to Li Yuanrang.

That's what Yabe thought.

Before the start of training the next day, Sato called the players to his side and announced something.

"Yono had always wanted to play a practice match with us before the summer conference, and now that I have the players together, I agreed to them. It's the weekend, so let's get ready. ”

said that they had gathered the team members, but in fact, there were still seven people who came. It's just that the absentees are different from yesterday.

Metropolitan Yono High School is a nearby public school. The university admission rate is more than 95 out of 10. On the other hand, the school adheres to the concept of "civil and military", and its performance in sports is also good.

Of course, that's good by public school standards.

Yono doesn't have its own baseball field, so the baseball club looks around for well-equipped private schools for practice games. And the school with the best stadium conditions in this area is the Peace School.

Li Yuanrang changed his jersey from the locker room, and as soon as he returned to the court, he was ordered by Fukushima to start running laps.

The baseball field is a non-standard fan, and the radius of both sides of the home run wall is generally more than 100 meters. The midfield is a little further away.

There are more than 300 meters in a circle. And Li Yuanrang was asked to run five laps first.

In Li Yuan's opinion, he is an otaku who lacks physical exercise and is a little chubby. The memory of running 1,500 meters in middle school physical education class and finally being almost unable to breathe is still deeply engraved in my mind.

But this time is different.

After five laps, I didn't feel very tired. Of course, on the one hand, there is a difference between the 1,500-meter speed of the training jogging and the assessment results, but on the other hand, my physical fitness has indeed improved at some point.

This is the result of brisk walking in recent months.

Although the original intention at the beginning was just not to lose to others in the circle of friends. But the motivation for brisk walking in recent times comes more from obsessive-compulsive disorder.

The Peace School does not provide dormitories, and the Li family has not found a suitable host family.

The final plan was to rent a small apartment for Li Yuanrang to live alone. His parents, a friend who lives in Yokohama, come to take care of him regularly.

For cheaper rents, the apartment is located a little further west than the school. It is two stops by train and about two kilometers on foot.

Li Yuanrang planned a longer route for himself, so that he had to walk more than three kilometers to and from school. Coupled with some movement in the school, the amount of exercise in a day can be exactly 10,000 steps, satisfying my obsessive-compulsive disorder.

And the five laps of jogging on the court just now are actually less than half the distance of a one-way trip to school every day. So it's not a strange thing not to feel too tired.

Of course, Fukushima didn't let Li Yuan run because he was tired. This is a basic physical exercise, and more importantly a warm-up for later training subjects.

Many of his high school classmates are now studying baseball. In that kind of school, you don't have to put too much energy into schoolwork, and every day is training in addition to training.

Fukushima also learned a lot about the training methods of strong teams from the channels of these old friends. And integrate the training content of these strong teams into daily independent practice.

On the other hand, he rarely demands the same from his teammates who treat baseball as an extracurricular pastime.

Of course, Li Yuanrang in Fukushima's eyes is not the so-called "ordinary teammate".