Borrowing the venue of the municipal Naruohama High School, the baseball club of the Peace School Park conducts training. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Kazusa Aragaki, the coach who came to Kansai with the team, was in charge of playing the coach's baton and leading the team to conduct infield guard training.

Ichihei Fukushima, a pitcher who is in the adjustment cycle, is practicing low-volume pitching with the assistance of Yabe.

Li Yuan, who suffered a hand injury, left himself alone on the sidelines, facing the net and practicing with one hand.

Before he knew it, all the balls were thrown, and Li Yuanrang walked to the front of the net to collect the baseballs scattered on the ground.

"Let's pick it up, your hand hasn't recovered yet."

Tokiwa, a member of the first-year team of Naruohama High School who had greeted him the day before, ran to Li Yuanrang's side and helped him clean up the things on the ground. He was accompanied by another player he hadn't seen before.

"I borrowed your venue, and asked you to help pick up the ball, how can I go?"

"It's not gratuitous."

Tokiwa gestured to a truck parked on the side of the court.

An employee of a sporting goods company is holding a receipt document for a man who looks like a teacher to sign for it.

It was a new ball machine and a percussion practice net sponsored by the Peace School for Nario Hamataka. As a public school, the Naruo Hamataka Baseball Club has not been equipped with new training equipment for a long time.

Tokiwa helped Li Yuanrang clean up the baseball. Then Li Yuanrang continued to practice.

"This is the distance from home plate to second base."

Another member of Tokiwa's side asked.

"Well, my position on the field is now a catcher. Since I can't practice hitting or guarding, I can only try to practice passing to second base. ”

"Actually, I'm a catcher too, but now I'm just a substitute. Oh yes, my name is Liu Guangnan. ”

"Liu? What are Chinese characters? ”

"Liu Bei's Liu."

"If the surname is Liu, it must be ......"

Li Yuanrang thought to himself, could this also be an international student.

However, when the other party speaks, he speaks in a Kansai dialect, and the pronunciation of "Hikarao" in his name is also Japanese.

"Our family used to be Korean."

Due to its geographical proximity and ease of transportation, there is a large number of people from the Korean Peninsula from northern Kyushu to the Kansai region. It is quite common in baseball.

There are many players who have been active in professional baseball, such as a pitcher who holds the record for most wins in a Japanese league, or a player who holds the record for the most hits in Japan. Actually, they are all Korean-Japanese.

However, in general, these peninsular-born families live and work in Japan using a Japanese-style surname as a "common name".

There were very few people like Liu Guangnan who directly used their own surnames before. In recent years, with the gradual diversification of society, there has been an increase in the number of people.

The topic of names came to an end, and Liu Guangnan, who was also in the first grade, enthusiastically exchanged his experience with Li Yuanrang as a catcher.

"So, in the end, the Peace School was able to go all the way to Koshien, but it mainly relied on the pitcher's ball control?"

"Well, Yabe, who taught me how to play the ball, said that if my matching method is a normal college pitcher, it won't work at all."

After hearing these words, Liu Guangnan turned his head to look at the Changpan beside him.

"Look at what I'm doing, I'm just a bench pitcher wearing a number eighteen. And all the games that have been played this year have been as outfielders......"

Takashi Tokiwa made it to the prefectural convention this year. There have been three appearances. All are substitutes.

However, most of the team's starting lineup is made up of third-year students.

For Naruo Hamadaka, the summer convention has come to an end. The seniors of the third grade have all retired.

When a new team of first- and second-year students competes in the fall, Tokiwa is likely to get a single-digit number and even become the team's trump card.

"In return, I'll tell you about my experience in stopping the thieves."

Liu Guangnan once watched the video of the last three games of the West Tokyo Conference Peace Academy.

He found that Lee had a low success rate in blocking the base when the left-hitter was striking. And he has his own set of skills in this regard.

"Actually, sometimes you don't have to stand up to pass the ball to second base. Wouldn't this be able to avoid the opponent's distracting arms? ”

Liu Guangnan sent a ball to the distant net in the posture of a catcher squatting. The baseball hit the target with a straight trajectory and accuracy.

"And when the ball comes out like this, the second baseman bends down to catch it, and he can directly touch the runner with the situation......"

"Don't listen to him, college students should use standard posture to lay a good foundation."

In the middle of speaking, the teacher-looking man who had just signed for the training equipment on the sidelines came to Li Yuan and asked them. interrupted Liu Guangnan, who was talking.

"Hello Mr. Yanagiyu."

Liu Guangnan and Tokiwa stood honestly and saluted.

"I'm Yagyu, who teaches chemistry. Although he is not a coach of the baseball club, he is currently on ...... I mean, when I used to play baseball, I happened to be a catcher......"

Mr. Yanagi, who claimed to be a former catcher, denied most of Mr. Liu's claims. He advised Li Yuanrang to lay a good foundation throughout the college stage. Tips for later.

"But one thing is true, the most important thing to stop the steal is to pass the ball early, and then the position of the pass is to make the ball easy for teammates on second base. Finally, there is the strength of the shoulders. ”

After saying these words, Mr. Yanagi walked to the other side of the venue to watch the installation and commissioning of the newly arrived equipment.

"He really just teaches chemistry?"

Li Yuanrang asked Tokiwa.

"Well, he's not qualified to coach the baseball club yet. So you can't be a coach or a supervisor. ”

Do I need qualifications to coach a baseball club?

Li Yuanrang was a little confused about this.

Mr. Sato, the superintendent of the Peace School Baseball Club, doesn't look like he has any baseball coaching certificate.

And Kazusa Aragaki, who is the team's part-time coach, is not only not an employee of the school. Not even a college diploma.

After returning to the hotel after training, Li Yuanrang recounted what he encountered today.

"Coaching qualifications? Logically speaking, there are no rules, unless it is ...... By the way, what's the name of that teacher you're talking about? ”

"Yanagio."

"How old? What about accents? ”

"Looks less than forty? It feels like a bit of a Kansai accent. ”

Yabe listened and nodded. Pick up your phone and type a few keywords into the search engine.

"Look if it's this person."

Li Yuanrang took the phone, and the screen displayed the profile of a player.

Yagyu Munemoto. Born in 1975. He graduated from the municipal Naruohama High School and the Kansai region's famous baseball school, Enmeikan University.

In the sixth round of the 1997 draft, he was selected for the Yokohama Bay Stars. He retired in 2009. The professional baseball team has a record of 43 appearances.

Li Yuanrang moved his gaze to the photo next to the information.

Wearing a blue and white jersey, Mr. Yanagi is in high spirits. Looks a lot younger than it is now.

"So he used to be a professional baseball player?"

"Yes. And he won the championship with the team. (To be continued.) )