Fuso Osetaya's fourth baseman, third baseman and the team's main general, Hiromi Izumi. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Both in terms of pronunciation and kanji, it looks like a girl's name. But in appearance, he is a muscular and dark-skinned strong man.

Like several of his teammates before him, Izumi also follows Inspector Morita's somewhat "self-centered" striking philosophy.

However, unlike those teammates, Izumi is clearly faster and more powerful.

Li Yuanrang carefully guided the pitcher Yabe to maneuver around the opponent.

But in the end, he was hit out of the first baseman's back.

Hiromi Izumi managed to get to first base. However, the hitter himself does not seem to be happy with such an outcome.

Obviously, he hit the home run with the bat.

"I kind of understand what they're thinking. I'm afraid I used to think too highly of this Morita overseer......"

Superintendent Yagi in the rest area of the Peace School suddenly muttered to himself.

He suddenly figured something out.

Overseer Morita, who has been smooth sailing in his life, is particularly fond of using himself as an example when discussing problems.

Morita himself may not realize that Tomohito Yagi, a college baseball researcher, has previously recorded a lot of what he said about the concept of baseball during his time as a streamer.

One of them is the disdain for metal bats.

"We were different in that era, and college students also had to use wooden sticks. It's like today's young people who go out with a casual swing of the ball. ”

Morita has made similar remarks more than once when he participated in a talk show with a relaxed atmosphere.

On one occasion, Yagi, the current superintendent of the Peace School, was also a guest at the scene.

Originally, Japanese college baseball games were played with wooden sticks, just like professional games. But wooden bats are easy to break, and good wooden sticks are not cheap.

This was a big financial burden for the Japanese college teams that were not particularly wealthy in the 50s and 60s.

In the 70s, American sporting goods manufacturers began to promote metal bats with aluminum alloy as the main material.

After a period of evaluation and demonstration, it began in the 59th summer of 1974. Metal bats are allowed in college baseball in Japan.

Although the rules are only "allowed", wooden bats can still be used.

In practice, however, very few teams continue to use wooden bats.

It's not entirely about money.

The metal bat is not easy to break, and the material is more uniform. I can transfer more power to the baseball.

Although the top hitter hits the core of the long hit, the metal bat is no more threatening than the wooden bat.

But most of the time, a metal bat can hit a ball that is not so solid and doesn't hit the core farther.

One thing that Supervisor Morita of Fuso Osetaya is very proud of is that he was one of the last few college players to grow up entirely with wooden bats.

When it comes to metal bats, he always expresses his contempt, consciously or unconsciously.

However, it is clear that the policy adopted by Superintendent Morita after he took charge of Fuso Daisetani was aimed at metal bats.

"What kind of brains do you need to use for a metal bat, just wave it."

Morita himself has said something similar more than once.

This claim may seem arrogant, but it is not unfounded.

In the early '80s, college football was a team that took this approach.

During those years, the most high-profile team in college football was Tokyo's famous Hayata.

He has a talented pitcher, Arakawa, and has scored Koshien for five consecutive seasons.

But in the summer of the last year of the ace Arakawa's third grade. Koshien's semi-finals met a public school in Tokushima Prefecture.

Twelve points were bombarded by the opponent's line. This is how he ended his college baseball career.

In the end, the Tokushima Prefecture representative successfully won the championship and achieved a summer and spring consecutive hegemony.

And that team's offensive approach was to increase the power and speed of the swing, and fully exploit the advantages of the metal bat.

Now, Fuso Osetaya's strike strategy is more or less the same.

The difference is that Morita, as a supervisor, did not clearly communicate his deployment to the players.

Morita only verbally talked to the players about swinging the bat with all his might, and pursuing a home run with every ball.

As for things like strengthening the muscles of the body, it's just silently adjusted on the training menu.

As for why he didn't convey his actual intentions to the players, Tomohito Yagi, as an opponent, may not be clear.

According to his guess, Superintendent Morita wants to maintain his image as a "good guy" in front of the players.

Praise every swing and look kind to the players. This is the personal image Morita has created since he recently took over the team.

On the other hand, the striking strategies he is pursuing now are not always in the right direction for the individual growth of the players.

Although Fuso Daisetagaya is not a first-class family. That's not to say that there aren't any players who want to continue their baseball careers after college.

The current striking strategy, which is only applicable to metal bats, is to some extent for teenagers who want to continue playing baseball after entering college or society, or even aspire to professional baseball. It may lead to bad habits that are difficult to correct.

As a supervisor, Morita may have deliberately concealed this side effect from his teammates.

Hiromi Izumi, the opponent's four-batter just now, was not satisfied with her blow. But in fact, he has fulfilled the expectations of Morita's supervision.

Use optical illusions, plus a few balls in front and back with ball foreshadowing.

Of course, Li Yuanrang will not guide the pitcher to throw the ball at an angle that is easy to play.

Just now, Hiromi Izumi's swing of the stick was just "rubbing" the baseball.

If it were a normal hitter, the ball would fly limp into the defender's glove.

And it is precisely because Izumi Hiromi used the posture of swinging the stick with all her strength to treat this ball. Plus the power of a metal bat.

The baseball successfully passed the first baseman's head and landed safely. Be a hitter.

This is entirely the result of Morita's overseen crackdown strategy.

The same goes for the next fifth stick, Yoneyama.

Instead of staring at the baseball, he relied on his full force to swing a powerful flat fly ball in front of the shortstop.

Tokuda Qiu'er has a good quality in his heart, without any dodging, and steadily catches the ball into the glove.

However, if the average college shortstop handles such a ball, it may not be able to guarantee such a safe result.

Yoneyama's swing was aimed at the long blow, and he naturally shook his head at the result of his blow.

But Superintendent Morita in the rest area still said, "Good fight!" Such a compliment.

The beater below is the catcher Hara of the sixth bat.

This time, the Yagi overseer in the rest area stood up and typed out a series of coded signals.

"This mat is all about changing balls?"

Li Yuanrang replied to the superintendent's code to indicate that it had been received.

But in my heart, I don't fully agree with the deployment of supervision.