As the game progressed, the point of a little luck in the first half of the second game became more and more important. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the second half of the second game, Katsunori Nomura, a catcher who wanted to make up for his work, swung his stick with all his might against an inside corner high ball.

Although the bat only touched the lower edge of the baseball. But the ball was still hit to the deepest part of the field.

Donald Hirata, who was tall, confiscated the ball three or four meters before hitting the wall on a home run.

The middle of the Edogawa Ward Course is only 110 meters in the middle of the field, and the wings are only 90 meters.

It's a rather bad pitch for pitchers.

This goal scared Li Yuanrang out a few drops of cold sweat behind the home plate.

But from another point of view, if it weren't for the fact that his side was behind, Nomura might not have swung such a ball high above the good ball area.

It's good to pass the ball, it's good to hit it. The physical catcher was always shaggy under the pressure of falling behind.

And for the side of the Peace Academy, it is not easy to expand the lead.

In the first half of the fourth inning, Tokuda Qiuer selected four bad escorts. Then he went to second base in a hard-fought base stealing battle.

This time, Nomura's pass was not wrong, and Tokuda's stealing relied on his own strength.

There are people in the circle, and the beater is Li Yuanrang, the four sticks of the Peace Academy.

It looks like it's a better chance to score than in the second inning.

However, Lee Wonrang's powerful flat fly ball in the face of the curveball was confiscated by the opponent's second baseman Arai.

The two players in the second tour of the Keming Pavilion are actually not outstanding. The two of them can get the main position, naturally relying on the strength of the garrison.

Unlike the shortstop Yaval, who has solid defensive skills, second baseman Arai is a dexterous player. Not only defensively, but also with mobility when hitting.

Statistically, Arai seems to make mistakes on a regular basis.

But a lot of these mistakes happen when he forcibly blocks a shot that he couldn't have stopped.

Behind these mistakes, there are more balls like Li Yuanrang just now, which seemed to be sure to hit a hit, were intercepted.

The game went into the bottom half of the four-inning.

This time, the opportunity to score was in front of Keming Hall.

The first hitter in this game, the fast-legged Arai, finally grabbed Akio Yabe's missed shot and hit an infield hit.

Immediately after the second baton of the pine sent a striking sacrifice blow.

The Keming Pavilion also waited for someone to come to the point circle and the base clearing group came on the field.

The batter in third place was pitcher Hirohashi.

At this point, Superintendent Yagi called a timeout, and substitute Ibaraki ran over from the rest area.

"What is the overseer's directive?"

Yabe, who is the captain of the field, asked.

"The opponent is playing on the left, so let's switch to the left on our side."

There are now three players who can pitch at the Peace Academy.

Among them, Masaoka, who usually guards first base, is a left pitcher.

Yagi's division of pitchers includes not only starting pitchers and finishers.

Masaoka's left-throw advantage is also positioned as a left relay facing left-hand hitters.

However, it is different from the situation in the professional football world where the change of pitch requires the start to be replaced. It is more convenient to switch pitches in the amateur field.

Just swap the garrison positions of Yabe and Shooka.

"I see......"

"Which one?"

Li Yuanrang asked.

"No, nothing."

The sentence that Yabe didn't say was, "It turns out that Superintendent Yagi is also such a nerdy type."

In Yabe's view, left-throw and left-hand play are just a myth in the baseball world.

It's not that he's questioning Yagi's strategy as a pitcher.

He simply felt that this was unnecessary.

The arrow is not a hook or a sideways.

In the face of left-hand hitters, there will be no problem of the shooting point being seen through.

And Masaoka may not really be better suited to deal with the current beater than Yabe himself.

But now that the overseer has already given instructions, the only way to do so is to follow this policy.

"What about pitching? There are no instructions from the superintendent. ”

Li Yuanrang asked Ibaraki, who had given the order.

"I said I had to pay attention to the infield guard."

About Hisashi Hirohashi as a beater. Overseer Yagi had said a few words to Li Yuanrang after his last meeting.

"It's a pity, maybe it was a door cannon."

As a theoretical college baseball critic. Tomohito Yagi also has a proposition that has also attracted the attention of the media.

He opposes the right players to swarm to practice the left play.

For the time being, it doesn't matter if it becomes a left-hand hit for reasons other than baseball.

Supervisor Yagi's view is that the current mass production of right-handed and left-handed players in the Japanese amateur football world may be at the expense of a large number of baseball geniuses, creating a group of homogeneous middle-class players.

Quite a few ambitious baseball players switched to left-hand play as teenagers, either because of their coach's advice or because of their own ideas.

While there are a variety of reasons to be found, in essence, many people are just short-term utilitarian.

The left hitter's strike zone is closer to first base. And using your usual right hand to control the stick will also increase the accuracy.

The result of the switch from the right striker to the left is the mass production of the infield rolling earth.

In professional baseball, the infield rolls the ball in most cases means going out.

But in the junior competition, it's a different story.

In previous games at the university, it was rare for a team to have an experienced lineup.

As soon as the ball starts rolling around the field, it means that it is possible to go to base.

Add to that the influence of a certain Japanese outfielder who is active in the major leagues.

In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of young players practicing with the goal of hitting an infield.

In the opinion of Yagi Supervisor, these excellent materials with excellent physical conditions and excellent baseball elite routes have been practiced in the left play since childhood, and even spent a lot of time practicing special safe strikes.

It's tantamount to squandering your talents.

Probably the most popular scene of baseball spectators is a home run.

But for team supervisors in the youth stage, the infield rolls the ball and the safety touch is more reliable.

Shaping one after another right-to-left hitters based on this skill is an act that is detrimental to Japan's future baseball potential in the eyes of Yagi.

He felt that this was also the case with Hirohashi in the opponent's squad today.

Counting the previous practice matches, there are also a few games when I played as a substitute outfielder in my sophomore year.

Hisashi Hirohashi's batting average results are good, but the long hits are somewhat lacking.

This is not commensurate with the power he shows when he pitches. Yagi thinks this has something to do with his change to left-hand play the day after tomorrow.

"Our overseer felt that if you had insisted on playing right, you would have been stronger in the long fight now."

In a casual conversation with the hitter before pitching, Lee Wonrang relayed the views of the Yagi overseer.

"Not necessarily, I'm left-handed."

Hirohashi's answer was somewhat unexpected.

"Then why is it a right throw?"

"I didn't know I was left-handed until I was in middle school!"

When I was in middle school, I half-jokingly wrote with my left hand, which opened the door to a new world.

But by then he had been playing baseball as a right-hand pitcher for five years.

"But it's good now. Just right and left balance. ”

Hirohashi continued.