"So the left hit is innate?"

Li Yuanrang asked the other party's beater, Guangqiao. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"In elementary school, I used to play right, but in middle school, I found out that I was actually left-handed. Pitching...... This can't be changed. However, nowadays chopsticks are also left-handed. ”

In recent years, topics such as "second knife stream" have become hot again. However, most professional baseball teams don't expect a blow from their pitchers.

So one thing that many people overlook is that the proportion of pitchers who shoot right and left is actually quite high.

There are two factors to this.

Generally speaking, the player who can play as a pitcher in the youth stage is necessarily one of the most talented and physically qualified players in baseball on the team.

Then, according to the popular belief in the last decade or so, changing to a left hit can bring the batter closer to first base and increase the base rate.

Once the teenager was fixed to the left, although the blow was just a decoration in the professional field, most people didn't bother to change it.

In addition, there is another situation that will make the pitcher actively change to right-hand and left-hand shooting.

That is to adjust the balance of your body.

Among the various technical movements in baseball, the use of body muscles by pitching is the most intense.

Long-term pitching practice, although the muscles are worn out, they are actually trained.

The pitcher's body that pitches the ball is sometimes significantly stronger than the other half.

This can disrupt the body's balance and adversely affect ball control.

To correct this situation, some pitchers will choose to balance it out by doing a batting exercise in the opposite direction.

In extreme cases, some left pitchers have also adapted their right-hand play to this purpose.

When Hisashi Hirohashi was in middle school, he found out that he was actually born with Zuoli. But things like writing and pitching that require training are too expensive to learn.

I really switched to using my left hand after middle school, and it's just two things: hitting and using chopsticks.

Since Hirohashi is a real left-hand hitter physiologically. Now, switching to a left-handed pitcher might really be able to keep him under control.

Li Yuanrang didn't take the matter of left throwing and left hitting very seriously.

But as a catcher, it's always a little more brain-wrenching to guide the right shot to the left.

The variation balls used by college pitchers, as well as the matching theories that accompany these variations, are mostly used against right-handed players.

The most common slides and curveballs used by college pitchers are routes to the outside corner of the right hitter.

When a right-hand pitcher faces a left-hand hitter, it is very oppressive to change the ball and hit the inside corner.

However, there are also hidden dangers such as being more likely to throw a touch ball.

And if you match the change ball in the outer corner. Because it is too far away from the hitter, and it is easier for the left hitter to see the right pitcher's shot.

The deceptiveness of the change ball will be greatly reduced.

If the left pitcher is facing the left striker, the situation can be improved a lot.

As long as the situation on the court is mirrored horizontally, the matching theory that guides the right pitcher against the right hitter can be directly applied.

What's more, whether you play left or right, you will still have fewer chances of seeing a left pitcher than a right pitcher in a college game.

In this case, Masaoka Masa, who is less powerful than Akio Yabe, may really be better suited to deal with this hitter than Akio Yabe, who has just started.

Although it is not a key training goal, Masaoka has also conducted special training in skating together for a period of time before.

Because most of the time, Li Yuanrang has to cooperate with Yabe and Tokuda for pitching practice, and he doesn't catch many balls from Masaoka.

And now to start matching, you have to get to know your partner as soon as possible. Even if he only votes for one person.

In the pitching test before the start of the blow, Lee Won rang let Masaoka throw a straight ball and two variation balls respectively.

In mid-October, the weather in Tokyo was fairly warm. Although he didn't have the full warm-up treatment of the starting pitcher, Masaoka's pitching quickly got into shape.

The tester in the hands of Suzuki, the manager in charge of collecting information in the stands on the sidelines, showed a straight ball speed of 124 km/h.

It's really not fast in terms of numbers alone.

But in the college football world, it's a makeshift speed.

Li Yuanrang first matched a straight ball from the outside corner. It's a test, but it's also a test of the opponent.

With a wave of his hand, the baseball flew above the rest area on the first base.

Akio Yabe, who temporarily replaced Masaoka in the first base, chased the ball to the spot, almost all the way to the opponent's bench.

However, the baseball ended up in the stands and was not picked up by the defenders.

I can pull an outside corner kick to the first base side. It can be seen that Hirohashi is a typical pull-and-play player.

Playing on the left will hit the ball to the first base side, if there is a rolling ball is equivalent to self-destruction, and the infield rolling ball can only survive if it hits the third base side.

Therefore, in order to shorten the distance of the base, the left-hand hitter who creates an infield hit will focus on practicing the pushing technique.

And Hirohashi is indeed born left, so he uses this more powerful way to deal with the incoming ball.

A pull-and-play left-hand hitter is prone to hitting a powerful fly ball that clings to the sideline of first base.

Li Yuanrang glanced at the home run benchmark of the court.

The two wings of the Edogawa Ward Stadium are only 90 meters, and it is really dangerous to be hit by an opponent with such a flying ball flying close to the sideline.

In order to suppress the opponent's long play, Li Yuanrang decided to be passive with the ball, and the second ball was still low in the outside corner. But this time it's a slider.

Pitcher Masaoka's slider went through a week of special training. In essence, there has been an improvement.

But this kind of improvement may not be seen by others at all.

Although the change is still similar to the past, the ball speed has not improved much. It also does not give the illusion of resisting gravity.

But in fact, it was much later to turn before home plate.

The second shot to Hirohashi also had a beautiful trajectory as expected. The change is noticeable just before it is close to home plate.

But the beater was unmoved.

Masaoka on the pitcher's mound shook his head at his performance.

No matter how good the ball is, it deviates greatly from the good zone, and the hitter will still not be confused.

In this year's autumn competition, Lee Wonrang really realized the value of Fukushima Ippei's ball control in the summer.

And now he has to use more ball counts to deal with the hitter.

After two outside corners in a row, it became very risky to throw the third ball into the outside corner.

Li Yuanrang looked at the beater on his right.

Hirohashi was already standing close enough to home plate in the strike zone.

The toes are almost pressed against the line.

Throwing the ball at the same angle at the same angle in a row is considered a matching taboo. However, in order to suppress the long hitting power of the center line, I am afraid that every strong hitter has faced the situation of many low balls in the outside corner one after another.

Guangqiao probably didn't think that Li Yuanrang would use a straight ball of more than 120 kilometers to fight him hard in the inside corner, and he was ready to play an outside corner kick again.

In this case, Li Yuanrang plans to plan the plan.

On the pitcher's mound, Masaoka nodded and threw the next third ball.

It's a straight ball. Of course, the ball speed is just the usual level of Masaoka.