The game came to the bottom half of the seventh inning. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe score was four to three. Peace School leads by one point.

The starting pitcher of the 4-chome shopping street, Sasaki, strikes out an opponent after a strikeout. I made a gesture asking for a substitution.

As a result, the inner fields of the shopping street were rotated, and everyone changed their guard positions.

Sasaki changed to first base, and Yamazaki, who was originally a first baseman who opened an online store, went to third base. Third baseman, newsstand owner Nagashima now guards guerrillas. Nishioka, a clerk at the shortstop candy store at the opening session, was transferred to second base.

As for the pitchers, they are now replaced by the second basemen at the beginning, Aragaki and Sasa.

"Sasaki, is this injured?"

Li Yuanrang, who was sitting in the rest area, asked Yabe beside him.

"I think he'll be fine."

"Or maybe Kazusa Aragaki wants to show off their pitching skills to scouts?"

"No, I don't think Sasaki just can't shoot......"

Sasaki, who was standing on first base, was now taking the sports drink handed over by his teammates and gulping down.

Although the fish shop owner is over 30 years old, he is physically strong and explosive, but his stamina is not very good. I don't have much energy to distribute during the game. It seemed like a miracle to be able to throw in the seventh game.

On the other hand, Aragaki and Sand on the pitcher's mound are now starting trial pitching.

As a pitcher, she uses a side-throwing position. The ball speed does not look fast, but it makes a "bang" sound when it falls into the catcher's glove.

"It should be good to listen to the sound of the ball."

On the bench in the rest area, Li Yuanrang looked at the screen of his mobile phone. It shows that the speed of the ball was 107 kilometers per hour.

It stands to reason that a ball of this speed will hardly make a loud sound when it falls into the trapper's glove. Unless it has a particularly good tail energy.

"It's not the ball power, it's the catcher who catches it well."

In this field, as the pitcher's arrow, the speed of the straight ball was more than 120 kilometers. However, when the ball fell into the catcher's glove all day today, the sound was a muffled "poof".

This is the gap between Li Yuanrang, who is a temporary guest catcher, and a full-time catcher.

The sound of the catcher at the moment of catching the ball is actually not directly related to the outcome of the game. But the crisp and loud catches are both a deterrent to opponents and an encouragement to their own players. Therefore, being able to make a good sound at the moment of receiving the ball has always been an important indicator of the catcher's skills.

Fortunately, today it was Akio Yabe, who was born as a catcher, who pitched with Li Yuanrang. He knew that Li Yuanrang's voice when he received the ball was just because his basic skills were not solid. And not that their own ball power is not enough. Therefore, it will not affect the mentality of the game because of the sound.

……

Lee's last blow in the game was in the bottom half of the eighth inning.

It was also his first time facing Aragaki and Sasa's pitch.

Kasha had faced four batters before without being knocked out for a hit. Li Yuanrang was a little puzzled by this.

Judging from the data alone, the top speed of Aragaki and Sha's straight ball is only 110 kilometers. And the change ball is only eighty or ninety kilometers.

But when it was Li Yuan's turn to let himself stand in the strike zone, he understood the power of this slow change in ball speed.

Aragaki and Sasa's sliders can produce high-speed spins, and the use of a horizontal throw is a relationship. The magnitude of lateral variation is striking.

Li Yuanrang's characteristics of not being good at inside corners have just been exposed to his opponents by himself. So as soon as he came up, he threw two sliders straight into the inside corner.

The relatively slow speed of the ball made Li Yuanrang always feel that the ball was going to fly towards him. And the large change amplitude ensures that the two balls can finally spin into the ball area.

The number of balls instantly becomes two good and no bad. The third ball was still the same inside corner slide as before.

This time, Li Yuanrang planned to use the strategy of swinging the bat in advance with the short grip bat that had worked before, but the timing was still not too rushing, and the ball hit the bat and was easily caught by the hand.

"The change of this slider is too big, and when I throw it, I feel like it will hit my back, and I ended up in the good ball area......

Back in the rest area, Li Yuanrang described to his teammates the slide he had just seen.

"You think it looks like it's going to hit your back? Do you feel like the ball is coming from your back? ”

Captain Ichihei Fukushima, who didn't plan to play at all today, asked Li Yuanrang.

"You seem to be true when you say that. When the ball is thrown out of the pitcher's hand, it will jump behind his back and fly from behind him......"

Li Yuanrang was just in the strike zone, and he always felt that Aragaki and Sha's slide would be slightly out of his field of vision for a moment before reappearing.

"So I get the idea. Lee, have you ever measured your dominant eye? ”

"Eye-catching?"

"Come, stretch your hands straight......"

Fukushima took Lee Wonrang to do a test of the main eye.

This is done by crossing the index finger and thumb of both hands in a triangle. Use this triangle to aim at an item that is a reference. Close your left or right eye, respectively. If the reference object is not displaced by seeing through one eye, then this eye is the dominant eye.

"So my main eye is the right eye? Is there anything special? ”

Li Yuanrang asked.

"It's nothing special, 70% of people in Japan have the right eye ......."

Fukushima was planning to talk about something more. There have been three outs on the field, and the offense and defense have been exchanged. The first half of the ninth inning is about to begin.

……

The match against the shopping street ended up winning 5-3. The next ****** students face the four-day midterm exams of the first semester.

The baseball team's training was also temporarily suspended.

It wasn't until the final exam was completed that Li Yuanrang returned to the court to start practicing that he remembered what Fukushima Ippei had said to him last week. So I picked up my phone and started searching on the Internet. What we get is a variety of conflicting answers.

"Some websites say that the main eye is on the right and is suitable for left, and some say that it is suitable for right. Which should I believe? ”

Li Yuanrang showed the search results on his mobile phone and asked Fukushima, who had just arrived at the stadium.

"I think it's good to refer to them all, and it doesn't have to be dogma."

Fukushima replied.

"What do you mean?"

"If you really want to accommodate the main eye, I think it must be advantageous to put the main eye in front......"

The so-called putting the main eye in front. It refers to bringing the main eye closer to the pitcher. Specifically, when it comes to playing the mat, it means that if the left eye is favorable, it will hit the right, and if the right eye is favorable, it will hit the left.

"So after I switch to left-hand play, I can play a good inside corner?"

"You can try, but it doesn't work. As I've said before, 70 percent of people in Japan have the right eye, but you can see that there are still more baseball players playing right than left......

Although the concept of the dominant eye has long been popularized in the Japanese baseball world. However, various theories have always contradicted each other on how to use the subjective eye to exert the power of strikes.

Fukushima himself believed in the theory that the subjective eye was in front of him. However, in practice and competition, he feels that the smooth swing of the baton is more important than the vision. He himself is a right-hand man with a dominant eye on the right eye.

So about Li Yuanrang, Fukushima didn't plan to let him switch to left-hand playing. For overcoming the weakness of the inside corner, Ichihei Fukushima has other plans.