In the next few days, Kōshū had a very solid life. Even if he stood with the Little League players, regardless of his height, the content of the exercises was the same.
Miyuki seems to be getting more and more old-fashioned, like an enlightened pitching coach, picking out the details of Kōshū's movements.
"By the way, didn't Ochiai Coach say you shouldn't change your movements now? Why are your steps getting smaller?"
Kōshū When I first learned baseball, I didn't know where I heard that the longer you take the step, the closer the ball is to the home plate when the ball is released, which invisibly shortens the batter's judgment time.
Therefore, as he grew taller, he always took as many steps as he could.
But since this camera came, Kōshū has to spend three hours here every day, and he is the player who knows this equipment best.
That day, he suddenly thought of a question. In addition to physical reasons, the reason why his ball speed has just touched the edge of 150 now involves the transmission problem of the power chain.
I happened to discuss the issue of muscle compensation with Ochiai Coach, which includes force transmission.
The two decided to take a closer look at slow-motion videos of pitches and compare them to some well-known players.
After watching it for a few hours, I really saw some problems.
"The steps are too big, and there is not enough room for the lower body to rotate. By the way, isn't it difficult for you to throw like this? Isn't it uncomfortable?"
"It's been fine." Kōshū didn't feel anything. In other words, if you look at his pitching action alone, there is nothing wrong with it. Only after watching the smooth movements of professional baseball players, you will feel that the steps are a bit abrupt.
"If you don't look at it so focused, you really can't notice it." Ochiai also felt the power of this equipment for the first time, but now is not the time to discuss this. "It will be Quarterfinals the day after tomorrow. If you want to modify it, you have to wait until later."
The pitcher's movements affect the whole body. They must set aside time to discuss this matter. "I will discuss this matter with Kataoka Manager. Now your topic is still to fix the existing movements and study how to deal with the loss of physical strength."
"I understand."
Therefore, when Miyuki spoke like a supervisor the next day, Kōshū immediately clarified, "Senior Miyuki's eyes don't have a ruler. I'm still as far ahead as before."
But to be honest, if you keep this kind of thing in mind, it will inevitably show up sometimes. Kōshū originally didn't think there was anything strange about the pitching action. After Ochiai Coach asked about it that day, he felt a little awkward and always wanted to change it to something comfortable.
"You are the ace of the team, so nothing can go wrong at this time."
It's a good point, but it would be better if Miyuki could put these words at the beginning, before criticizing.
"I know, so Senior Miyuki, can I continue to vote?"
Miyuki Only then did he realize that he had already stood up and took several steps forward unconsciously, 'No, am I really going to turn into an old woman? ' He shook his hair and got rid of that feeling at the same time.
Tomorrow is the battle with Kasuga Ichi. As the ace, Kōshū probably won't be able to play.
Kataoka Manager has made it very clear in the tactical analysis meeting, "Tokyo Spring Tournament, if you win, you will only get Kanto Tournament's qualification to compete, and it has nothing to do with Koshien selection. Compared with spring Koshien and summer Koshien, its importance is of course very low, but -"
He glanced at everyone with a stern look, "I am not prepared to lose in every game after that. Although I risk information leakage, I can't give up such an opportunity just because of the risk. So! Next game with Kasuga Ichi, Furuya, you will start, but you can only vote in 5 games!"
"Hi!" Furuya finally waited for the opportunity to start, and blue flames appeared on his body.
"Sawamura, you will relay. Kawakami, you will finish!"
"Hi!"*2
Finally, it's Kōshū.
"Kōshū, is your knee healed?"
"It's completely healed. The pain is gone."
Kataoka nodded and turned to everyone, "The semi-finals and finals will be held for two consecutive days. Before that, you must ensure your health, and -" After he finished speaking, he looked at Miyuki, "Kōshū's improvement Cutter has probably been known to other teams. We can't expose it too much in the future. We must prepare for the following Xia Lia."
"Hey! In the following games, this ball type will be sealed."
Kōshū also nodded. What this meant was that he was probably out of luck in the next game.
"Then finally! Kōshū!"
"Eh? Hi!" Why are you still calling me??
"You are always ready Bullpen. Victory requires the strength of everyone on the team."
"Hi! I understand." In other words, since last autumn, Kataoka Manager has been keeping an eye on any physical movements of Kōshū. If there is any trouble, he must take a good rest until his hair breaks down.
In fact, in this case, most players will follow the old path of Chris's predecessors, that is, to hide their injuries in order to play, but Kōshū is too precious about his life and is committed to his career, so he is still willing to take a rest every time the trouble arises.
The things that Kōshū once feared, such as letting the ace fight continuously in order to win, or sacrificing the pitcher's pitching life in order to qualify, never happened. Instead, Kataoka Manager took all the pressure on himself.
This kind of pressure is very invisible. Kōshū read many people's comments on the Internet and slowly tasted it.
Nowadays, many OBs and viewers are still saying, "Isn't it true that the ace can still shoot even if he is slightly injured? Why not let him play? If he loses, isn't it all a matter of supervision and scheduling?"
If players are allowed to bear the negative accusation of "not being enthusiastic enough", it will become, "The ace has the nerve to cry, just watching the team lose, and not playing because he feels a little uncomfortable. It is so irresponsible."
Therefore, Kataoka Manager's overreaching approach actually puts the personal health of the players before the team's victory.
'What a good coach, he doesn't look like that person from Hokkaido.. '
Recently, Nitta Manager may have been angered again. Hongo Masamune has not received a letter for a long time, and it is not even allowed to send messages through Renji's mobile phone.
"Why didn't you write a letter? Could it be that you just lost once and you can't accept it? Don't you have a competitive spirit that doesn't distinguish between targets?" Kōshū, who had not received any information in the half month after Chunjia, couldn't help but complain, and finally got a brief response.
'I keep winning just to leave this team and that supervision with dignity. Once I think of the supervisor's proud look when he finally left in despair, I couldn't help but tremble all over. Most of all my efforts now are for this, and the other half, as you said, is probably for my own competitiveness. '
Kōshū now understands Hongo's monologue in the letter more and more.
The first day of freedom~~~