Chapter 19: Change
The lineup for the School of Peace was decided before the start of the game. Of course www.biquge.info, because there are no real substitutes at all, everyone's position has not changed from the last game.
What really makes the difference is the order of strikes. Li Yuanrang was unexpectedly ranked first.
Whether it's professional or amateur, baseball's first batter often requires a balance between batting rate and base speed. The goal is to increase the team's offensive opportunities and to be able to use the speed once on base to increase the likelihood of scoring back on home plate.
But Li Yuanrang now not only does not have enough valid data to prove his strike rate. The speed of running the bases is only in the middle of the pack in the team.
What's more, Li Yuanrang has basically not mastered the timing of running bases, the distance from bases, and other things that need to be mastered by actual combat experience. Doesn't look like a suitable first player.
Regarding this, in place of the coach's duties, the captain Fukushima Ichihei, who is responsible for arranging the team's smoothness, explained it to Li Yuanrang like this.
"Today's opponent is a Koshien regular. Unlike the last one, you can't count on their mistakes. It's easy to get a double kill if you play bocce on the base when there's someone on base, so put you in the first ......"
Li Yuanrang's blow has two characteristics, the first is that he will swing the bat when he sees a good ball, and the second is that he can touch the ball as long as the swing is eight or nine.
However, at the stage when the striking technique is not perfect, the result of these two characteristics combined is often to create an infield bocce ball or a high fly ball that is not far away from the side.
Fukushima used these two points as a reason to arrange a smooth arrangement, and Li Yuanrang could only accept it with an open mind.
According to the pre-game agreement, this game was attacked by the Peace School. And the starting pitcher sent by Kai General is Umesuke Anayama, a sophomore with the back number 28.
In fact, in Japan, there is no such number as the number 28 in the official game of high school baseball. Although the rules of local conventions vary from place to place, a team can register a maximum of 20 people.
At the Koshien National Games, a team had a maximum of 18 players.
And Kai Soai's side often appears on TV shows of Kazuya Takeda, the team's talented artist. At the beginning of the new school year in both years, the program production unit will make a jersey with a back number for each player on the first team of the baseball club.
Of course, this kind of jersey will only be worn in practice matches like today, and you will not see it in official matches.
Although everyone has their own number, the principle of number issuance is no different from that of a normal school.
Basically, the main lineup is still No. 1 to No. 9, and No. 10 to No. 18 are the substitutes who can be stable and can enter the squad.
A player like Anayama, who wears number 28, knows that he is usually a substitute in the team just by looking at the number.
Before the official start of the game, Anayama had to try to throw a few shots as usual.
In the rest area of the Peace School Park on the side of the first base,Asakura, the manager who was supposed to be the recorder hasn't come back yet.。 Wearing the No. 10 jersey, Tian Guwu has become accustomed to taking notes in addition to analyzing data.
Tian Gu's computer screen showed that the balls that Anayama had just tried to throw were all around 1278 kilometers. It is considered above the passing mark among the average college player. However, in a place like Kai Zonghe, there must be a big gap between the strong team and the main lineup.
Before Li Yuanrang stood in the strike zone, he swung his bat a few times in the air. The most recent week's training has focused on the shaping of the percussion posture. Now Li Yuanrang feels much smoother when swinging the bat in the air.
It's just that the effect of this sense of fluidity in actual combat remains to be seen.
"Let Li hit the first bat, is he really just afraid that he will hit a double kill?"
On the bench in the sideline rest area, Akio Yabe asked Fukushima beside him. Today, Yabe's play was also adjusted, and it was advanced to the sixth base.
"Of course, I hope he can get a few more chances."
Now that it has been seen, Fukushima no longer hides his thoughts. The purpose of the practice competition is to train the team. In the face of such a strong team, letting Li Yuanrang have more opportunities to perform will definitely be more helpful to the improvement of his ball skills.
on the playing field.
The pitcher of Kai Akamayama took a deep breath and looked at the catcher's code. Threw the first ball of the day.
It was a straight ball with an inside corner high and was pressed on the edge of the good spot. Lee reluctantly swung the bat, and the ball hit the ball at the point where the bat began to taper and became a boccia, and it went out of bounds before the third baseman ran over to catch the ball.
Throwing such a good ball in an ambiguous position was not the intention of Anayama, it was purely a matter of luck.
As the team's No. 4 pitcher, Usuke Anayama is not yet the kind of player who can divide the good ball into equal points to control the ball.
The catcher's code to him can only be basically the inside or outside corner and the type of ball to be thrown.
As far as the ball just now is concerned, in fact, the catcher Harusuke Yamamoto of Kai is just a straight ball in the inside corner, and the position of the glove is outside the good ball area at the beginning.
"It's really a good ball......
Yamamoto thought to himself.
Regarding the information about the Peace School Baseball Club, Yamamoto got it from Kazuya Takeda.
Aki Suzuki, the manager of the baseball club of the Peace School who participated in the recent film with Takeda, played a small role with almost no lines. But because it is a fixed human flesh background board, many shots have to stand behind the protagonists. So, like the main actors, you always have to stay on the set all the time.
In between filming, Takeda Kazuzu also has the habit of chatting with his crew peers.
And Aki Suzuki, who was accosted by him, always brought up the only thing in common between the two "baseball" as a topic of discussion because he didn't know how to deal with it.
The personal habits and technical characteristics of each player in the Peace Academy are inadvertently revealed by Yaji.
After the practice match with the Peace School was decided, Takeda compiled the team information from these conversations into a group email and sent it to several teammates. Most recipients don't take this seriously. But Catcher Yamamoto analyzes these contents in their entirety.
Kai Soai is a team from Yamanashi Prefecture, while Peace School belongs to the Nishitokyo area.
The two teams will not meet in the qualifiers for the Summer Games. It stands to reason that when you encounter such an opponent in a practice match, it is enough to relax your mind and achieve the purpose of training your team.
However, Harusuke Yamamoto, a second-year student who has taken the main position of the third-year seniors and is firmly in the catcher position, feels that this kind of opponent who is not very strong is a good stage to test tactics and hone his observational skills. In today's game, he wants to put some of his previous ideas into practice.
In addition, his immature ball matching theory should also be further strengthened in actual combat.
The only problem is that the bench pitcher, who can only be easily guided with inside and outside corners and doesn't know if he can pitch as required, is not a good partner to execute a matching strategy.