"Did you see that ball?"

Superintendent Yagi asks questions to several of the team members around him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The three players who can pitch at the Peace School happen to be the top three of the team. Now all three are sitting in the lounge area.

"That slider? It's a good vote, but it doesn't feel very special. ”

Yabe is a catcher, and he has been silently roughly counting the opponent's ball data.

Not every ball was real, but the one was the first slider of the day. That's for sure.

If a variation ball accounts for such a small percentage of the distribution ball, then it is more or less a "sealed" ball.

The reasons for sealing are varied.

Most of the time pitchers will seal their own unfinished variations, or pitches that are not in shape today.

Judging from the ball just now, the slider thrown by the opponent's pitcher Hirohashi is definitely not of this type.

Then it's the opposite.

The pitcher tries to avoid using a lot of his own kind of tiebreaker to avoid the adaptation of the opposing hitter, and only uses it when it is crucial.

But the ball just now, it is obvious that the sharpness has not reached the level where it can be used as a secret weapon.

"It's not about that, it's about Hirohashi's pitching stance."

"Pitching stance?"

Yabe closed his eyes and recalled Hirohashi's throw.

As for the pitching posture of the opposing pitcher, Yabe has never been good at observing and can't see the reason.

On the playing field, facing Donald, the sixth batter, Hirohashi threw a straight ball.

Donald swung his bat, and the baseball was sent to the third base side stands, a throw-in.

Ordinary three-quarters casting. Even if you look at Hirohashi's pitch again, Yabe doesn't see anything special.

"The slider just now is different from the current throw, so if you're interested, find a video to compare with yourself after the game. To put it simply......"

As a former Koshien semi-final pitcher, at least in front of these three players in the lounge, the self-proclaimed expert in pitching is indisputable.

He explained his opponent's pitch to Yabe and others in the form of verbal descriptions.

Hisashi Hirohashi's slider just now had a different way of powering the whole thing than usual.

"When you step forward when pitching, the height of your elbow is key. Just now, Hirohashi's elbows were higher than his shoulders, and his forearms were drooping. When you rotate your body in this way, the arm will first rotate inward, then externally, and finally inward. Creates a maximum twist angle. ”

This method of exerting force, described by Superintendent Yagi, gives full play to the elasticity of the ligaments in the arm, and for a slider that relies on the fingertips to form a change in force. This shot can powerfully speed up the lateral rotation of the baseball.

In this way, both the ball speed and the change range have been greatly improved.

"That means that the way you threw the ball just now is the key to a good slide?"

Yabe checked his position when he threw the ball, and it was completely different from the way Yagi Supervisor had just described.

"No, on the contrary, if you want to continue playing baseball in the future, you have to try to avoid throwing like that."

The arm that uses the upper body to drive the pitch, whether it is the shoulder or the elbow, reaches an extreme degree of twisting during the pitching process.

This way of throwing the ball that consumes your arms too much, although it can easily throw powerful straight balls and varied balls. But the damage to the arm is also quite staggering.

Before Hirohashi was promoted to college, he almost always pitched in this way, whether it was a slippery ball or a straight ball.

For that injury a year ago, the school arranged a comprehensive medical examination for him. Doctors found that the medial collateral ligament of his right elbow had been worn out incommensurate with his age, and the joint of his shoulder was also in danger of dislocation in the future.

If you don't change your pitching stance, I'm afraid that your right hand will be useless before you graduate.

The highly-anticipated rookie pitcher has given up on the pitching he has been doing since he was a child. Practice pitching again almost from scratch.

The pitching strength shown by Hirohashi today is actually the result of more than a year of re-learning.

The clues about these news are actually mentioned in some gossip discussions on the Internet. Yagi Supervisor, who is almost a heavy Internet addict, once saw it on the message board where he usually dives.

"Since the other balls have changed their pitching methods, why do you still have to use the old way to shoot the ball?"

This is Yabe's doubt.

"I guess I haven't mastered the art of throwing a good slide ball with a new position. And there's no need to master it anymore. ”

On the field, Donald swings his bat at a finger fork fastball. Hit the infield rolling earth in front of the shortstop.

Lee on second base couldn't get off the line. Watching Donald get blocked before first base. Two outs.

As a decisive goal, Hirohashi's SFF is actually good enough. Coupled with a straight ball with a speed of more than 140 kilometers per hour, the speed difference and drop are very large. There is not much point in practicing skateboarding again.

"But there's one thing I don't understand."

Superintendent Yagi said.

"In that case, why did you have to throw a slider at Tian Gu just now."

"He's afraid I'll hit the crossball."

When I was in the fifth grade of elementary school, I participated in a baseball class where the top players of the Tokyo area hardcore youth baseball participated.

Tagu was at a loss for a ball machine that could throw balls in various variations.

But there is an exception to the variation ball.

It didn't take long for Taku to get used to the difference in speed and drop of the finger fork ball.

His dynamic vision seems to have the best performance against longitudinally changing balls.

"This guy still remembers it to this day."

"That's because you hit a home run in the red-and-white game before baseball classroom."

Masaoka, who is now the first baseman at the Peace Academy, also participated in that day's activities as a member of the selection team.

Tian Gu's reversal three-point cannon decided the victory or defeat of the red and white game.

The straight ball that he was proud of was easily hit off the court by a hitter who was a year younger, and Hirohashi, who was still in the sixth grade of elementary school at the time, secretly decided to practice changing the ball.

And the three years of hard training in the middle school behind closed doors turned into a hidden danger of injury.

What happened on a weekend afternoon a few years ago had such a huge impact on Hirohashi's baseball career.

At this point, Tian Guwu, as an opponent, was probably never expected.

"There's one thing I've always wanted to ask about being prone to injury."

Akio Yabe has been dealing with Supervisor Yagi for a while. He felt that it was almost time to seek the answer to the following question.

"What's the matter?"

"Legend has it that your elbow was injured by throwing a slippery ball, is that true?"

"That's true."

"Then wouldn't it be ...... if I pitched the ball according to the method you taught?"

"My pitch is fine. The problem is in the number of balls. ”

"The number of balls?"

"How many pitches do you make in a game as a pitcher?"

"About one hundred and ten or one hundred and twenty balls?"

In the previous group qualifiers, the Peace School ended the game early. The record for the number of pitches Yabe is referring to is the number he used in practice matches in the summer.

"My record is almost a hundred more than yours."