Chapter 210: The First Meeting
In early November, Lee and Yabe moved into the newly completed baseball dormitory. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Although at first, Principal Morimoto, Supervisor Yagi, and Instructor Sato all planned to give the dormitory a name such as "What's the dormitory". But the three men locked themselves in their offices for an afternoon to no avail.
In the end, the sign in front of the dormitory still reads such a straightforward content as the dormitory of the baseball club of the Peace School Park.。
The baseball club's newly built dormitory is a two-story dormitory. There are eight rooms on each floor.
Each room has two bunk beds. There are more than 60 beds in total.
This is already enough to catch up with the number of people in the first and second armies of the average professional baseball team combined.
The current baseball club has only a dozen players in total.
Principal Morimoto planned the dormitory of this size, mainly for the purpose of preparing for the special sports enrollment that will begin next year.
Calculate the size of recruiting more than a dozen people per school year. After three years, the number of students living in dormitories in the baseball club will reach more than 40.
There are two to three people in each dormitory. The vacant beds will be reserved for other members of the staff who usually live at home during the sharing of the dormitory.
As for the purpose of this dormitory before the arrival of special enrollment, I am afraid that it was used as a "dormitory" for the baseball club.
Although the Peace School is a school with a consistent system of middle, high school, and university. Most of the students do not have any pressure to go on to higher education.
However, as the principal, Morimoto still doesn't want the baseball club to give up his studies completely, like some private elites.
Because of this, if you live together during the semester, you obviously can't find a homestay in the deep mountains and old forests to live with him for ten days and half a month.
The so-called dormitory is nothing more than a group of members who usually live in their own homes to live in the dormitory.
Classes will be held as usual during the day. There are also times when the afternoon training is not in place. The real extra amount of training is mainly concentrated morning training in the morning and training after dinner until bedtime.
Akira dormitory also began immediately after the opening of the dormitory. The room was still very redundant, it could have been done for one person. However, in order to cultivate the team's sense of teamwork, this time the dormitory was arranged according to the standard of two people per room.
Lee Motorang and Akio Yabe, as permanent residents of the dormitory, now each have their own fixed beds. It's no longer like going to Koshien in the summer as a roommate.
Lee Wonrang's new roommate is Toji Ibaraki, a newcomer who only joined the team in the fall.
The purpose of this arrangement was to bring in the old with the new.
Of course, in fact, Li Yuanrang is not a predecessor of Ibaraki.
Although the two are not in the same class, they are both in the first grade, and their birthdays are also in the first half of the year.
Even in terms of baseball experience, Ibaraki, who played on a soft team in elementary school, has a little more.
Of course, compared with the practical experience at the university level, Li Yuanrang is richer.
Depending on his physical condition, Ibaraki's garrison positions are tentatively set as catchers and outfielders. Because they belong to the same school year. Obviously, it is not cultivated as Li Yuanrang's successor, but Li Yuanrang's "spare tire".
The dormitory arrangements of the other players also basically follow the principle of seniors leading juniors and the main team bringing substitutes.
Each of the four second-graders in the baseball club was assigned a first-year roommate.
The only room shared by two key players in the same grade were Donald Hirata and first baseman Masaoka Masa.
With each other's help, both of them have been improving by leaps and bounds recently.
Donald can already communicate with his teammates easily. And Masaoka is getting closer and closer to his goal of watching American movies without subtitles.
As for the problem of eating during the dormitory.
Principal Morimoto's plan is to have a cafeteria that can accommodate more than 50 people at the same time in the baseball club next spring. However, although the construction of the canteen has been completed, the relevant staffing is not yet in place.
This time, the food for Akiai-su was taken care of by a nearby bento shop. Of course, the menu will be improved according to the needs of baseball. Nutritionally more balanced.
Yabe's original nutritious meal plan was unanimously rejected by all the team members. Only he himself fully executes.
Lee Wonrang's choice was a compromise plan, eating a bento box for lunch to satisfy his taste buds, and eating boiled chicken and vegetable salad with Yabe for dinner for health and nutrition.
The training plan for the juku was developed by the Yagi superintendent. The main issues to be solved are the improvement of physical fitness and basic skills, as well as the strengthening of personal weaknesses.
The morning exercise starts at half past six. Because there is a residential area near the stadium. In order not to disturb the people with noise, it is not possible to practice hitting and passing in the morning.
The content of the morning exercise is basically a silent lap. No slogans can be shouted, and coaches will not speak loudly or blow the whistle.
If it rains, you can do strength exercises at the indoor driving range instead.
The team's technical and tactical training was basically concentrated in the afternoon.
The entire pitch is used for integrated playfulness training. The pitcher actually pitches the ball to the catcher. However, there are no beaters in the strike zone.
The moment the baseball enters the catcher's glove, Supervisor Yagi or Coach Aragaki standing next to the catcher will randomly hit the baton to different positions.
Defenders are expected to be played to the same standards.
A player will simulate a hitter moving from the strike zone to first base. If there is a runner alive on the other bases, it will also be pushed.
Such training is close to real combat. It can also train the players' walking skills at the same time.
For Hejuku, the training after dinner is the main thing. The team members trained separately according to the plan. Until ten o'clock before going to bed.
Although after eight o'clock the team will stop practicing the batting outdoors. But with the team's current numbers, the indoor driving range is adequate.
Supervisor Yagi and Coach Aragaki will tour the training site to guide the players. Sometimes, he will go down to the field and act as a sparring partner for the players.
On the first day of the camp, under the coaxing of the players, Superintendent Yagi took off his coat and took on the role of a striker himself.
"Let's talk about it first, don't expect anything, I haven't pitched in years."
Although he said so, Tokuda Ball, who was the first to face Yagi's supervised pitching, swung an empty stick with three balls in a row.
All three balls are straight balls. The fastest one is only 110 kilometers. The slow one is just over a hundred kilometers.
Not only did Yagi have suffered ligament injuries, but his shoulder joints were also overwhelmed.
The pitching position he now uses is a low shoulder side throw that looks a bit like a hook shot.
Only by throwing the ball in this position will his shoulder not feel pain when exerting force.
For hitters, this low-shouldered pitching position is more difficult to adapt to than the average horizontal pitcher.
Not to mention that although Yagi's power and speed are not as good as before, his accuracy on the ball has not decreased at all.
As a sparring partner for batting practice, Yagi supervises the pitching without the need for a catcher to guide him.
All three balls were his own analysis of the hitter and threw into the opponent's awkward corners.
Although he is a pitcher, it can be seen that Superintendent Yagi also has his own set of experience in matching.