"For more than two years, you guys have really worked hard!"

"Rigorous training, fierce competition for the first army...... I believe that you must have a lot of pain and unwillingness...... But! You never get discouraged, and in the end you follow my guidance. ”

Superintendent Kataoka straightened up as he spoke, and then bowed deeply, deeply to the unsuccessful third-year seniors.

"I hope you will continue to be my pride in the future."

As soon as Superintendent Kataoka's voice fell, the suppressed cries of the failed third-year seniors came from the indoor training ground, and at the same time, the third-year seniors who stayed with Kuraza Naoya outside the indoor training ground listened to all this with heavy faces.

"As a member of the first team, we must carry the expectations and dreams of all our teammates who cannot set foot on the field, continue to move forward and continue to get stronger." After saying this, Daiki Murasuke turned around and left first, and the other third-graders also left one after another, leaving only Kuraza Naoya still standing in place.

From this point on, he decided to do his best to change all this.

……

At 8:50 a.m., the Qingdao people gathered on time on the court.

The coaches arranged the same basic training for the Qingdao people as usual, and let the players carry out relevant guarding exercises and passing exercises according to their positions.

At 11:40 a.m., the morning training ended quickly, and when it was time for lunch, Miyukiichi also said to Naoya Kuraza next to him: "It seems that the training in normal times is not much different?" ”

Except for a few day students who have recently been living in dormitories, it doesn't seem to be any different?

As soon as Yukiichi finished speaking, several second- and third-year students next to him looked at him with sympathetic eyes.

Masuko wanted to say something to him, but was directly stopped by the third-grade senior Fujii Gui next to him.

There are some things that need to be experienced by first-year students themselves to be profound enough.

First-year students who have not experienced dormitory training are very immature in every sense of the word.

This is only the summer training, and when the winter training comes, Kataoka will let them know what the real hell is.

Several seniors are silently serving dishes to Miyukikachi and Kuraza Naoya, and signaling them to enjoy them with their eyes.

Let them spend the last comfortable lunch time peacefully, is the only pity they have for the juniors as seniors.

At thirteen o'clock in the afternoon, the basic garrison practice of the Qingdao people began again, and everyone carried out special intensive training according to their own garrison positions, among which the pitcher also had a special pitching practice, and the catcher also had a special squatting practice.

As a pitcher, Koichiro Tanba practiced filling in the baseball after the baseball was knocked away, and after the coach knocked the baseball flying, he kept running in the direction of each baseball bag, and at the same time stretched out the ball sleeve to catch the baseball passed back from the infield or outfield.

At first, he rarely made mistakes, but after running for more than half an hour, his speed quickly slowed down due to physical strength, and although his body could still react instinctively, his physical strength began to be unable to keep up, either failing to run to the position or missing the baseball passed by his teammates.

On the other hand, as a third-year pitcher, Sakai Yu's speed slowed down after running for nearly an hour, and he began to make frequent mistakes; It can be said that his performance in this regard is even better than that of Koichiro Tanba in the second year.

The three of them, Kazuya Miyuki, Naoya Kuraza and Takigawa Chris Yuu, practiced catching, passing, and guarding the base at home plate, and under the command of the coach, they kept crouching and waving their arms to pass; After more than an hour, even Yukiichi, who had long been accustomed to long squats, and Kuraza Naoya, felt that their calves were a little trembling at this time; Of course, Takigawa Chris Yuu, a second-year student, lacks proper training due to long breaks, and his performance in practice is similar to that of Yukiichi and them.

After an hour and a half of stumbling and practicing like this, the few of them, along with Yagami Yagami, Jingujiichi and Kentaro Matsuda, were called into the cowshed by Superintendent Kataoka to start the casting practice.

"Fifteen balls per set, practice five sets first." After Superintendent Kataoka finished speaking, he turned and left.

Chris and Yukiichi and the other catchers put on the catcher's protective gear, and each squatted down on the catcher's seat and set up their own ball covers.

Yagami and Chris in a group, Jingu Teriichi and Kentaro Matsuda in a group, Hirokazu Sakai and Miyuki in a group, Koichiro Tanba and Naoya Kuroza in a group.

Yagami moved his shoulders and took a few deep breaths from the pitcher's position, then raised his legs and threw his arms to shoot the baseball in his hand in a standard position.

After Chris caught the baseball flying from the pitcher's position, he took the baseball out of the sleeve and got up and threw it back: "Nice ball."

After receiving the baseball that Chris passed back to him, Yagami looked at the code that Chris had compared after crouching again, turned the baseball in his hand, waved his arm, and threw the baseball in his hand again.

Still catching the baseball that Yagami threw from the pitcher position without moving the ball cover, Chris got up again and passed back: "It feels good, Saya." ”

Nighto? Yagami pouted, since last Saturday's sports festival, Chris didn't know why he suddenly liked to call himself by the name of Xiaoya, and said several times to tell him not to call it that, he just didn't listen, it's really annoying!

After calming down, Yagami and Chris tried all the balls he knew back and forth, and then combined them with fast straight balls from different angles to end the first set of fifteen balls.

Yagami looked at the baseball in his hand and spun around, and Chris walked over to him and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

“…… I want to try to learn Tamba's (natural) ascent. Yagami said in a low voice.

"Now?" Chris was surprised, raised his ball cover to cover his mouth, and asked in a low voice, "Why did you suddenly remember to learn to raise the ball?" ”

"My straight ball speed is already fast, if I learn how to hold and throw the ball as naturally as fast straight balls, plus I can change the ball ......" Yagami also covered his mouth with a ball cover and whispered.

The grip and throw of the natural ascent ball is exactly the same as that of throwing the fast straight ball; Pitchers who use the downward and side throwing methods can easily throw the rising ball, and the grip is the same as that of the outward curl and fall.

In addition, there are two other grips for the ascending ball, namely the two-finger and three-finger grips.

"Greed can't chew more! Xiaoye, you don't have a lot of balls at the moment, you just need to try to improve the level of ball control, and you can fully play the advantage of ball speed! ”