The summer West Tokyo meeting three rounds. The rival of the Peace Gakuen www.biquge.info Pen Fun Pavilion is the private Akikawa High School located in the hilly western part of Tokyo.

It's not just the baseball club. The rest of the school's students are also mostly from all over the country. Even students from Tokyo live in dormitories provided by the school due to inconvenient transportation and other factors.

So, in essence, it's a boarding college.

For a sports club like the baseball club, the advantage of all students living on campus is that training time can be guaranteed.

Every day just after 6 o'clock, the coaches will wake up the players room by room.

Training after dinner can sometimes continue until bedtime.

Although the ability to hit and pitch depends more or less on talent. However, the basic skills of guarding and walking the bases can be improved through repeated training.

"You can't expect them to make mistakes against this kind of opponent, you can only take your chances into your own hands."

At the final pre-match preparation meeting, captain Kazuhei Fukushima announced his lineup for the next day.

Donald Hirata, who has always been used as a surprise player, was placed on the bench this time. The right fielder and fifth batter positions were both taken over by Akio Yabe.

Fukushima judged that the opponent should have a left-sided shot in the third year Kaneson as the starter. Compared to Donald, who can only swing a big stick at a speedball, Yabe's guessing stroke is more effective against a characteristic pitcher like a strong team.

On the other hand. Koji Tokuda, who had been consistent in the first two games, continued to serve as a starting shortstop.

Tokuda's trust did not depend on his ability to strike. Compared to his sophomore seniors, who had previously served as a guerrilla, Tokuda's dexterity in guarding was more prominent.

The Shortstop is the center of the Infield Garrison. With such a trustworthy teammate behind his back, Ichihei Fukushima, as a pitcher, is also much more steady.

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On Wednesday morning, the match was held on time at the municipal Tachikawa Stadium. According to the results of the draw, if they can win all the time, the next three games of the Peace Academy will be played in this stadium.

Compared to the Fuchu Civic Stadium in the previous game. The Ichiban-Tachikawa has a slightly wider field, but the home run wall is lower.

Generally speaking, it is still a good venue for long-hit.

Playing on different venues, various factors can vary. That's what's interesting about baseball.

Kazuhei Fukushima was defeated in a guess between the captains of the two teams. The competition was led by the Peace Academy. This is the first time in the past month or so that Fukushima has lost in a draw or guess.

"There's no way around it, after all, the captain of the other party is Tian Nabu."

Yabe said.

"Tanabe?"

"Well, I heard that he is a guy who is very good at guessing boxing."

Akikawa High School's captain Tanabe, who is in his third year this year, is a third baseman in the guard position, and the batting order is third.

It is said that he has been extremely lucky lately.

"I heard that as soon as the results of the lottery came out, Akikawa thought that it was a steady entry into the fourth round."

According to the general impression, the Peace School and the opponents encountered in the first two rounds are the underdogs in the Nishitokyo area.

Judging by this standard, Tian Mingbu was selected as a lottery at the lottery meeting.

Even putting aside the draw, Akikawa Takashi already had the upper hand in this match.

Peace School had only been off for two days and had no pitchers to replace. Akikawa, who had a good result in the spring Tokyo Games, was seeded for the team. Today is their first race in the summer conference.

At the beginning of the game, it was Hideyuki Kanemori, a third-year student with the No. 1 number on the back, who stood on the pitcher's mound.

This is not surprising at all.

Although in the professional baseball arena with a delicate division of labor, a pitcher like Jinson who shoots left and sideways is easy to be seen by the opponent when facing a right-hand hitter, he rarely serves as a starter, but mainly relays rescue.

But college-level hitters often don't have that kind of insight.

Rather than caring about things like left and right. It's better to think more about the content of the pitcher's pitch itself.

At this stage, third-year Jin Sen is undoubtedly a relatively mature ace. Naturally, it is more worthy of supervision and trust than the first- and second-year newcomers on the same team.

"This Jinsen can throw one hundred and forty-five with a sideways throwing position."

Li Yuan, who was sitting in the rest area and ready to hit at any time, reminded him of the information of the opponent's players he had obtained before the game.

"Do you know what was the maximum ball speed of Yamato Yamto in the last game?"

Tian Gu, a teammate in charge of data statistics and analysis, turned out a paper notepad. When he can't use a computer, he records data in this way.

"Probably more than one, four, five?"

"The fastest shot has been 149. There are three balls. ”

"Huh? So fast, it can't be a problem with our speed gun. ”

The speed of the ball was not displayed in the games before the semifinals of the West Tokyo Conference of High School Baseball, and now the speed test data in the hands of the Peace School Park was measured by part-time coach Kazusa Aragaki sitting in the audience with a speed gun in his hand.

"The ball speed of Fukushima-senpai as a reference is generally within a reasonable range. So the opponent's ball speed should indeed be at this level. Maybe even faster. ”

According to Tako, the opponent in the last game of the Peace School was able to throw a speedball close to 150 kilometers. In the face of such a pitcher, his teammates also hit more than one hit, and finally relied on home runs to win. This made Li Yuanrang have a lot of confidence in the team he is in.

"But although the ball speed is a little slower, don't think that this Jinsen is easier to deal with than the opponent in the last game."

Akio Yabe saw Li Yuanrang's contempt for the enemy and deliberately explained.

There has long been a saying in RB baseball that a left-handed shot will be a few kilometers faster.

In fact, this is mainly due to the fact that there are few left-handers in East Asia, and left-handed shooting is rarer than right-hand shooting, and most hitters are not suitable for the relationship.

With the shift in baseball perceptions in recent years, the number of left-handed shooters and left-hitters has increased. The so-called problem of not adapting to left-hand shooting is less likely to occur at a high level of play.

But at the college level, this law still works to a certain extent.

It's not just about feeling the ball speed, it's fast. In college baseball, where most pitchers only throw curveballs and slides, a left-handed pitcher throws a ball that changes in exactly the opposite direction and catches many hitters off guard.

What's more, this Kanamori Hideyuki is also excellent among college-level pitchers. There is ball speed, there is a change in the ball. Possession is also above average.

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On the playing field, the number of balls is two good and one bad.

Miyagi, the first stalwart, is plagued by a ball that changes in the opposite direction.

He was caught off guard by a slippery ball that suddenly slid into the good ball area from the outside corner. Holding the bat and doing nothing, he was knocked out with strikeouts.

He was replaced in the strike zone by Masaoka, the second baseman at the Peace Academy.

Masaoka is currently the only left-hand hitter in the team. According to the so-called left-to-left, Hideyuki Kanemori, the ace of Akikawa High School, had an advantage at the beginning.