Yagami stood on the pitcher's mound, moving his shoulders while throwing the baseball in his hand towards Miyuki Kazuya on the opposite side.
Standing at the catcher's position, Mikoichi also wore goggles and neat protective equipment. He raised his hand to catch the baseball thrown by Yashigami, and then passed it back casually.
The two of them were passing the ball back and forth to each other. After receiving the baseball thrown by Yagami Yagami again, Miyuki suddenly stopped and asked, "Senior, are you feeling uncomfortable?"
"No, why do you ask?" Yagami Ye was quite confused about this.
"The baseball thrown by the senior doesn't seem to have much power. If the senior doesn't want to practice, it's okay to end it like this today." Miyukiichi didn't point it out. He could feel that the senior was a little worried about this. If he wasn't in good condition, the pitching practice wouldn't be good.
It means nothing.
"No, I'm in very good condition now." Yagami immediately retorted.
"If that's the case, that would be the best." Miyuki Kazuya waved the baseball back again, then squatted down and continued: "Can we start now?"
"Well, first is the fast straight ball." Yagami turned the baseball in his hand, strode forward with his right leg, swung his left arm, and pushed the baseball out of his palm with a slight force on his fingertips.
"call out!"
The baseball shot straight out from the pitcher's mound, drew a straight line, and rushed into Miyuki Kazuya's open ball sleeve with a sound of breaking through the air.
"Bang!"
“nice pitch.“
By feeling the slight numbness in his palm, Miyukiichi could tell the speed of the ball thrown by his senior, the power and tail power of the ball were very good, he took out the baseball from the holster, then stood up and threw it back to Senior Yagami.
Yagami took the baseball passed back by Miyuki Kazuya, and after he squatted down again, he swung his arm and threw the baseball in his palm again.
…
"You are all here."
After the pitching practice, Yagami, who came all the way with a bat, looked at the second-year students practicing their swing behind the dormitory wall and said hello to them.
"Iori, is the pitching practice over?" Koichiro Tanba rarely held a bat here to practice swinging today.
"Yeah." Yagami nodded and prepared to find a position to practice swinging the bat.
Chris came over from a distance and asked Miyuki Kazuya, who had followed Yagami Ye: "How many balls did Yagami just shoot?"
"Three groups, a total of 45 balls." Faced with Senior Chris' question, Miyukiichi immediately answered.
"In that case, Yagami, you should go do exercises and massage now." Chris patted Yagami on the shoulder: "You are just starting to retrain now. You should not throw too many pitches. Go home and rest early."
"Hey, Takigawa, don't keep looking at my pitch count! They have swung the bat a lot of times, right?" Yagami asked Yuki Tetsuya, who was standing not far away from him: "Yuki
, how many of your five hundred swings have you completed today?"
Yuki Tetsuya, who was called by Yagami Ye, thought for a moment, then shook his head: "I don't remember."
Yuuki Tetsuya wiped his face with the towel hanging around his neck, "Since I don't remember, let's swing the bat another three hundred times!" After saying that, he raised the bat in his hand again.
"What a good suggestion." Ryosuke Kominato also smiled and raised the bat in his hand and started swinging practice again.
"Then swing another three hundred times!" Junya Isashiki joined in the swing, as did Toru Masuko, Ichiro Sakai, Fumiya Kusunoki and others.
Yagami looked at the energetic classmates in front of him and felt deeply isolated by them.
…
May 3rd, today is the day when Qingdao and Heishikan play a practice match. In the morning, it is the second army against the second army, and in the afternoon, it is the first army against the first army.
Of course, none of the above has anything to do with Yagami Yagami, because his foot injury has not healed yet, and Director Kataoka, while not letting him play, also allowed him to move around freely.
After wandering around, he came to a gymnasium shared by several sports clubs.
"Hey, Yusa, I wish you the best in the inter-school competition (school competition)!" Yagami greeted his former deskmate Yusa Ryoto.
"Hmph!" Yusa Ryoto snorted coldly, and walked over ignoring Yagami Ye.
"Your character is still as bad as ever." Yagami followed behind Yusa Ryoto and walked towards the men's badminton room.
The so-called interschool competition is a preliminary for the Tokyo Conference of the National College Comprehensive Sports Conference, which starts in late April and ends around the Golden Week in May; the second preliminaries generally start in June, and then the winners from the second preliminaries
The school will represent Tokyo in the National Higher Education Comprehensive Sports Conference Badminton Competition held in August.
Yagami followed Ryoto Yusa to the badminton club and discovered that their freshman retention rate this year was very high. He had previously asked Mizushima Hikaru that a total of 12 of their freshmen wanted to join the badminton club. Now, nearly a month later,
Only four freshmen among them quit the badminton club and joined other clubs. In previous years, only five or six people would choose to stay. For example, there were only five people from Yusa Ryoto's class and the third-year class who stayed.
After all, there are not many main candidates who can participate in the competition. The inter-school competition is okay. Three groups (6) of people can participate in the individual doubles competition. In addition, the team competition with five participants does not require the individual strength of the club members.
Only the top four can become the main selection to participate in the competition; but when the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly's second qualifiers are held in June, the strength of the members must reach the top four before they can become the main selection and be eligible to participate in individual battles. Only the requirements for team battles will remain as before.
To be more relaxed, as long as the cooperation between the two parties is good enough, even if the strength is slightly inferior, you can become the main selection; the problem is that even so, under normal circumstances, there will only be five or six places in the main selection at most, which will lead to the intensity of competition among badminton clubs.
It’s no worse than their baseball club. (water word count).
Speaking of which, the retention rate of freshmen in their baseball club this year is not high. Last month, a total of 41 freshmen chose to join the baseball club. After nearly a month of elimination, only 23 freshmen are still in the baseball club.
In addition, after the Red-White War, the only two third-year seniors in the third army were shaken because they failed to be promoted to the second army as they wished. They gave up their persistence in the past two years and quit the baseball club to focus on their studies.
The Seido Baseball Club currently has only seventy-eight members.
The current number of members of the baseball club will continue to decrease in the near future. After all, in addition to the first-year freshmen, there are still several second-year students in the three armies. If they cannot be promoted in a short period of time,
If you join the second army, you will definitely be shaken and give up your high field career.