"You have worked really hard over the past two years!"
"The rigorous training, the fierce competition for the first army selection...I believe you must have a lot of pain and unwillingness...but! You were never discouraged, and you followed my guidance in the end."
Director Kataoka stood up straight after saying this, and then bowed deeply to the unsuccessful third-year seniors.
"I hope you can continue to be my pride in the future."
As soon as Director Kataoka finished speaking, the suppressed cries of the failed third-year seniors could be heard from the indoor training ground. At the same time, the third-year seniors who were staying with Naoya Kuraza outside the indoor training ground listened to this with heavy expressions.
everything.
"As members of the First Army, we must shoulder the expectations and dreams of all our teammates who cannot step onto the field, continue to move forward, and continue to become stronger." After finishing these words, Murasuke Daiki turned around and left first, and the others
The third graders also left one after another, leaving only Naoya Kuraza standing there.
From this moment on, he decided to do his best to change everything.
…
At 8:50 in the morning, everyone in Qingdao gathered on the court on time.
The coaches arranged the same basic training as usual for everyone at Qingdao, allowing the players to conduct relevant fielding exercises and passing exercises according to their fielding positions.
At 11:40, the morning training ended quickly and step by step. When having lunch, Miyuki Kazuya said to Naoya Kuraza next to him: "It seems that the usual training is not much different?
"
Except for a few day students who have to temporarily live in the dormitory recently, there seems to be no difference?
As soon as Miyuki Kazuya finished speaking, several second and third grade students next to him looked at him with sympathetic eyes.
Tohru Masuko wanted to say something to him, but was stopped by Takashi Fujii, a third-year senior next to him.
Some things need to be experienced deeply by first graders themselves.
First-year students who have not experienced dormitory training are very immature in every sense of the word.
This is just the summer joint training. When the winter joint training comes, Director Kataoka will let them know what real hell is.
Several senior students were silently picking up dishes for Miyuki Kazuya and Kuraza Naoya, telling them to enjoy them with their eyes.
Letting them spend the last, more comfortable lunch time in peace is the only sympathy they, as seniors, have for their juniors.
At 13 o'clock in the afternoon, the basic fielding training of Qingdao people started again. Everyone performed specialized intensive training according to their fielding positions. The pitchers also had special pitching training, and the catchers also had special squatting training.
As a pitcher, Koichiro Tanba performs a cover drill after a baseball is hit by a batter. After the coach knocks the baseball out, he keeps running in the direction of each base bag and at the same time stretches out the ball cover to catch the return pass from the infield or outfield.
Baseball coming over.
At the beginning, he rarely made mistakes, but after running continuously for more than half an hour, his speed quickly slowed down due to physical reasons. Although his body could still respond instinctively, his physical fitness had already
I couldn't keep up at first. I either missed the position or missed the ball passed by my teammates.
In contrast, as a third-year pitcher, Yu Sakai slowed down after running continuously for nearly an hour and began to make frequent mistakes; it can be said that his performance in this aspect is better than that of second-year Tanba.
Koichiro is even better.
Kazuya Miyuki, Naoya Kuraza and Chris Yu Takikawa were practicing catching, passing and guarding at home plate. Under the guidance of the coach, they kept squatting down and standing up to wave their arms.
Passing the ball; after more than an hour, even Miyuki Kazuya and Kuraza Naoya, who had long been accustomed to long squats, felt their calves shaking a little at this time; of course, as a sophomore, Takigawa Chris Yu
After a long rest and lack of corresponding training, his performance in practice is similar to Miyuki Kazuya and others.
After the few of them practiced bumping into each other like this for an hour and a half, they, along with Yagami Yagami, Jingujiichi and Kentaro Matsuda, were called into the bullpen by Supervisor Kataoka to start throwing and practicing.
"There are fifteen balls in each group, practice five groups first." After Supervisor Kataoka finished speaking, he turned and left.
After Chris, Miyuki Kazuya and the other catchers put on their protective gear, they each squatted down at the catcher's position and set up their own ball covers.
Iori Yagami is in a group with Chris, Jinguji Kazu is in a group with Kentaro Matsuda, Yuu Sakai is in a group with Kazuya Miyuki, and Koichiro Tanba is in a group with Naoya Kuraza.
Yagami moved his shoulders, stood on the pitcher's position, took a few deep breaths, raised his legs, swung his arms, and threw the baseball in his hand in a standard posture.
After Chris steadily caught the baseball flying from the pitcher's position, he took the baseball out of the ball cover and stood up and threw it back: "Nice ball."
After receiving the baseball passed back to him by Chris, Yagami looked at the signal that Chris gave after squatting down again, spun the baseball in his hand, waved his arms, and threw the baseball in his hand again.
He still caught the baseball thrown by Yagami Yagami from the pitcher's position without moving the glove. Chris stood up again and passed the ball back: "It feels good, Xiaoye."
Xiaoye? Iori Yagami curled his lips. After the sports festival last Saturday, Chris suddenly liked to call himself Xiaoye for some reason. He told him several times not to call him that, but he just didn’t listen. In fact,
It’s irritating!
After calming down, Yagami and Chris tried all the different types of balls he knew, and then paired them with fast straight balls from different angles, ending the first group of fifteen balls.
Yagami watched the baseball spinning in his hand, and Chris walked over to him and asked: "What's wrong?"
"...I want to try to learn Tanba's (natural) rising ball." Yagami said softly.
"Now?" Chris was surprised, raised his ball cover to cover his mouth, and asked in a low voice: "Why do you suddenly remember to learn to rise the ball?"
"My straight ball speed is already very fast. If I learn how to hold and throw the ball with the same natural rise as the fast straight ball, plus other variations of the ball that I know..." Yagami Yaya covered his mouth with a ball cover.
, said softly.
The grip and method of pitching a naturally rising ball are exactly the same as those of throwing a fast straight ball; pitchers who use downward pitching and side pitching methods can more easily throw rising balls, and their grip is the same as that of a hooked-up ball.
In addition, there are two other ways to hold the rising ball, namely the two-finger and three-finger hold.
"You can't bite off more than you can chew! Xiaoye, you currently have a lot of ball types. You just need to improve your ball control skills to fully utilize your advantage in ball speed!"