After receiving the first ball thrown by Tokuda, Li Yuanrang felt a little surprised. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, he soon discovered that Tokuda's possession was still a big problem.

The position of Li Yuanrang's gloves, Tokuda can rarely throw it steadily. And the probability of bad balls is also a little higher.

"He's the norm for the average pitcher......"

Akio Yabe reminded Li Yuanrang of this.

College pitchers, especially first-year pitchers, are so fast that most of them don't have the ball. Lee had gotten used to receiving pitches from Ichihei Fukushima in the past few months, and had high expectations for his new pitcher partner.

"In this case, there will be a lot more four bad guarantees in a game."

Originally, Yabe's ball control Li Yuanrang already felt that he was not accurate enough. In the last game, he faced an opponent with little attack power, and Yabe still sent a few guarantees.

If it were Tokuda, I'm afraid the number would increase.

"Anyway, the opponent in the next game is not too strong, so let's let Tokuda try it first."

Yabe feels that actual combat experience is especially important for newcomers, and the next game is a good opportunity to train.

"Well, that's all there is to it. Other than that...... What about changing the ball, what kind of ball will Tokuda throw? ”

Since possession is unlikely to improve quickly in a week or two, the next game becomes a headache.

Li Yuanrang hopes to at least use the change of ball type to increase the difficulty of the opponent's attack.

"I haven't practiced the change ball yet."

Tokuda told the truth.

It's not that Tokuda hasn't thought about learning to change the ball, but considering that his control of the straight ball has not improved, he has not arranged practice time for the change ball in training.

"Haven't practiced curling balls either?"

Li Yuanrang stood up and passed the ball back to the pitcher's mound. The ball doesn't go straight into the pitcher's glove, but rather in an arc that resembles a curved ball.

It's not the easiest to practice and it's not the least hurtful. However, due to history, in the field of college baseball in Japan, the curveball is the most common variation of the ball.

Even Li Yuanrang, who has not received much pitching training at all, will try to throw a few times according to the tutorial for fun.

Some playful teenagers even use the grip of a curved ball to play with passing practice.

"This level of hockey is still possible."

"To what extent?"

Li Yuanrang was not too satisfied with Tokuda's answer.

"I just can't use it on the field."

Yabe interjected in reply.

Although Li Yuanrang had an arc in the ball he passed just now, the speed slowed down too much. The baseball was completely powerless when it got into the glove.

If such a ball is thrown as a change ball, it is like feeding the opponent the ball during the throwing and hitting practice, and it is completely waiting to be hit by the opponent.

If Tokuda insists on throwing a curved ball now, it will have a similar effect.

There's really no way to apply this level to the game.

"There's a week left until the next game, if it's all about practicing pitching, how should it be arranged?"

Group pre-selection for the Fall Congress will only take place on weekends and holidays. Therefore, the interval between matches should be relatively long.

Although, though, there is still a week. Whether it's improving control or practicing changing the ball, it's not too late. If you practice both, you will definitely not be able to achieve anything.

On this point, Li Yuanrang intends to seek Yabe's opinion.

"It's better to practice changing the ball."

Yabe is a catcher by training, and now he often pitches on the board.

He understands that it is not easy to suppress a hitter with only a straight ball.

"But if you want to practice changing the ball, I have an idea, why don't you start with the speed ball."

This was Tokuda's own suggestion.

"If you only have a week, the speed ball ...... Well, that's a way to do it. ”

Yabe agrees with the idea.

"Speed ball, better practice than curveball?"

"It's one thing to practice well or not, but it's impossible to practice speed ball and curveball well in just one week, so it's better to practice speed ball."

Compared to the "ancestor" change ball curveball. More and more rookie pitchers are now using the speed ball as their own entry change.

Especially for those pitchers who are good at throwing speedballs, the posture and feel of the speedball when pitching are similar to those of a speedball. Whether it is to reduce the burden on the arm or to confuse the opponent, it has an advantage over the curveball.

Tokuda used the speed ball as an introductory change ball, and he also considered protecting his arm.

As for the specific grip, Tokuda's choice is the common circle finger change ball. Depending on the subtle differences in the pitcher's movements, the ball can also produce some lateral displacement towards the inside or outside corner of the hitter.

Therefore, the circle finger speed ball can not only be used to capture the ball of air vibration, even if it is hit by the beater, the probability of forming a rolling ball is greatly increased.

……

The week passed quickly.

By the end of the following weekend, the remaining four teams from the group gathered at the School of Peace. There are two matches today, and the winners of both will earn a place in the Fall Conference.

The opponent of the School of Peace is the Santa Maria Academy.

"The team in the East? If you look at the name, could it have been a girls' school before? ”

Lee Wonrang hadn't seen this team on the summer tournament table, but in the summer he had seen another school with a katakana in its name, San Javier, which had just changed from a girls' school to a co-educational school.

"The address, it's in Tsukishima, and they're actually ...... boys' school."

Because the draw is made from all over Tokyo, not every group is played against nearby teams.

The strength of Santa Maria School Park is not too bad. In the last round, the opponent was sealed and advanced with a score of 3-0.

However, it can be seen from the score that this is not a team that is good at attacking.

Such a team is indeed a good opponent to safely hone new pitchers.

Before the start of the game, Li Yuanrang crouched down to catch a few speed balls thrown by Tokuda.

"How is it, can you actually fight?"

After Tokuda finished throwing, he ran down the pitcher's mound to confirm his partner's opinion.

"Maybe a few straight balls interspersed with a few balls. So let's match the code again. ”

This is the first time that Li Yuanrang has formed a shooting partner with Tokuda Qiuer in actual combat. The code was also agreed on before the game.

Of course, Tokuda can't do it now. It's not even possible to divide a good ball into quarters.

However, Li Yuanrang was not willing to use only the inside and outside corners to guide the pitcher. He still made the code of dividing the corners of the good ball area.

And the position of the glove pendulum is really just for reference. Li Yuanrang didn't expect Tokuda's ball to be thrown in the slightest.

As for the change ball, there is only one type of change ball. Li Yuan made himself not very sure what kind of effect it would have if he was officially used in the game. (To be continued.) )