Donald Hirata has been involved in various sports since he was a child, with the support of his parents. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

When I was in elementary school, I was sent to play soccer in order to develop a spirit of collaboration. After the senior year, because of the development ahead, I played basketball for a while.

Baseball, on the other hand, is a sport that I only learned in middle school. Although he has no foundation at all, he still relies on good physical fitness to play the main role in the local youth team.

Donald, who had never thought of sports as his future career, was winless when he competed. And the baseball coach who led him to enlightenment in middle school was more about teaching baseball skills and fun.

For Donald, baseball was always just a game.

Such an environment has cultivated a positive hitting mentality in him.

As long as it looks like he can hit the ball, Donald Hirata will play aggressively. Never think about what strategy or anything like that.

Strikeouts are commonplace, and he's never discouraged.

In the face of the slow curveball thrown by the opposing pitcher, Donald's reason for swinging the bat was simply "feeling like it can be hit", even though he was not really good at playing the ball at all.

The next second ball was a straight ball in the good zone, and Donald naturally swung it happily.

The baseball was swept up the left field stand, but unfortunately it was outside the post.

The catcher of the United team, Yuma Kondo, learned the power of Donald's hitting from the ball just now. If you continue to fight hard, you may lose points.

After two good shots, there is certainly no need for the United team to consider strategies such as sending opponents to fill the base pack. Throwing a deliberately bad ball in a college baseball game is also a disgrace in the ball world.

The two goals just now can be seen to be a less picky hitter. So Kondo Yuma decided to try high ball again.

According to the catcher's code, Kenta Ohtani, the pitcher of the United team, threw a straight ball that was too high. But the beater, Donald, still swung the bat.

He is good at hitting straight balls, and he often shoots at obviously bad balls.

The metal bat hits the lower edge of the baseball. The ball is shot out with an extremely high trajectory. Fly slowly into the field.

The left fielder felt that the ball should fall into his own zone and he kept falling back. Until his back hit the home run wall.

The baseball crossed over the outfielder's raised glove and hit the not-so-high guardrail of Jingu Stadium and bounced back into the field. A little higher, and the shot could have been a home run.

As soon as the ball landed, Lee Wonrang on third base immediately started to go straight to home plate to score, and Fukushima Ippei on second base also ran back.

It took a lot of time for the left fielder, who misjudged the spot, to reconfirm the position of the baseball, and by the time he scrambled to pick up the baseball that was rolling rapidly on the artificial turf, the hitter Donald was already close to third base and ready to turn.

Akio Yabe, who was a guest guide on third base, kept an eye on the outfielder's movements, and by the time he was about to stop Donald from continuing to run the bases, the opponent had already bypassed the third base pack and headed for home plate.

The left fielder rounds his arm and throws a through ball back to the catcher. Yabe yelled at Donald's back in Japanese, "Back to third base!" But the other party probably didn't understand and continued unmoved.

Kondo received a pass and had barely enough time to get Donald out half a meter before home plate.

"If you make a base, you might be able to score."

Yuma Kondo, the catcher who finally managed to hold on to the point, said to Donald in English.

"You can get hurt when you hit the base. I only play baseball for exercise. ”

"Not for victory?"

"It's good to be healthy and win at the same time."

Donald left this sentence, and then walked back to his lounge area humming a ditty. After high-fives with his teammates in celebration of his score, he picked up his outfield gloves and prepared to start the next half of the game.

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The score was 2-0, and the Peace School was ahead.

The first half of the second game began with a duel between two catchers.

As a four-batter, Kondo is undoubtedly the strongest fighter in the team.

The last time Li Yuanrang was in charge of scouting, more than half of the scores were related to him.

"Last time I went to see your practice match, I ran into your sister in the stands."

Li Yuanrang thought about it for a long time, and it seemed that this topic was the only one to talk about with the other party.

Try to talk to the opponent as much as possible, it was Yabe Akio who gave a small homework to the catcher Li Yuan, who was still in the internship period.

"If there were no special circumstances, I think she would be there today."

Kondo replied.

"Yuma! Come on! ”

As soon as the words fell, such cheers were heard from the audience at the back of home plate.

Li Yuanrang recognized this voice, this is Kondo Yuma's sister, Kondo Nana.

"Nana, she seems to support you very much......"

Li Yuanrang said.

"You just call her 'Nana'?"

"That's what she asked."

"Also, since her debut, she doesn't like people to call her by her real name......"

"Debut? What debut? ”

"I'll talk about it when I have a chance later, let's pitch first."

When Kondo Yuma said this, Li Yuanrang also felt that the conversation was a little longer. And it doesn't seem to help shake the opponent's striking mentality.

So Li Yuanrang put on a posture to catch the ball and made a secret signal to the pitcher.

Like Kenta Ohtani, the fourth-bat player was also a great opponent for Lee to test his knowledge of ball-matching.

The first ball is a curveball with a low outside corner. The ball was not thrown too widely, but the hitter hesitated and did not swing the bat.

A good ball.

This goal fully achieved the expected goal of Li Yuanrang to seize the number of good balls.

Against pitchers who have never played before, cautious hitters will be more inclined to observe on the first pitch. If it's not what you're good at, you often won't be able to swing the bat.

And which ball paths the opponent is not good at is the catcher's problem.

If it's a professional baseball game, there's certainly a lot of data to analyze. But college baseball is different.

In the college competition, even if it is to carefully collect the opponent's information. However, due to the uncertainty of young players and the uneven level of play, the answers drawn from the data may not be of practical value.

Sometimes you have to rely more on the universal laws of baseball to make your guesses.

Most strong hitters will prefer to play inside corners, prefer high balls, and prefer straight balls.

And the first goal just now is the opposite of all three points.

Kondo, the hitter, felt that there would still be a way of the ball that he was better at in the future, so he let go of this ball.

"There should be a straight ball next."

Li Yuanrang thought so.

As a beginner in ball matching, Li Yuanrang is now very dogmatic in following the principles of inside and outside, high and low, and urgency.

The second goal was not surprising with a straight ball from the top of the pitch.

Kondo swung his bat hard, but missed the target.

The difference in ball speed between the curved ball and the straight ball still played a role in interfering with the rhythm of his swing.

"It's time for a bad ball to interfere with the opponent."

Li Yuanrang thought so in his heart, so he typed the next code. The position of the glove is also placed in the outer corner of the beater.