The long-awaited two children were finally born. Kōshū and Lang Zhi were holding each other, standing beside the hospital bed, and the family took a photo.
"Are you ready?" A soft swaddle was placed in his arms, which made Kōshū a little overwhelmed. It was too soft and he didn't dare to move.
"You also grew up like this." Shen Qing's eyes were filled with nostalgia.
April is a fruitful month for everyone.
Shen Qing unloaded her food and bought Confinement Center at the end of the month. Judging from the messages she sent every day, she lived a very good life, and she was not hungry. She lost weight right away.
After Mr. Sasaki was overjoyed, he finally felt the real weight of having to support four children. Fortunately, Confinement Center still has his children. For him, work has returned to normal and he has a reason not to be lazy every day. However, the extra baby products at home also indicate that it will take many years for him to return to his leisurely life.
Grandpa Sasaki was told privately by his grandma many times that he was too aggressive in naming, but he still refused to give up and sent the couple new names to his inventory every day. Finally one day, after a referendum by the whole family, the boy among the fraternal twins was named "You" and the girl was named "Qianxue".
Grandma Sasaki made various soups every day this month, and finally drank Shen Qing to the point of nausea. In the second half of the month, the enthusiasm was shared by the whole family. Except for the junior high school student who exercised every day and had a strong metabolism, other family members had gained a lot of weight visibly.
For the two baseball boys, the biggest thing this month is Spring Tournament within the league. First, through the civil war among the branches under the regional league, the team to represent the branch is selected. After that, a total of 16 teams from the seven major regional leagues will draw lots. Team Kinoshita Little League belongs to Kanto League West Tokyo branch of, Kanto League is a relatively large league, with a total of 5 branches, and there will eventually be 5 teams participating in the spring competition, because nearly one-third of the 16 competition teams are from Kanto League, so Little In the history of Senior League Spring Tournament, the Kanto region has won the most championships. In recent years, some people have been dissatisfied and proposed restructuring, but Kōshū still uses this schedule this time.
At present, the competition of West Tokyo branch has been carried out for three rounds, and there are still 3 victories left to represent the West Tokyo branch to participate in Spring Tournament. Spring Tournament is 4 in the end. games, so if Spring Tournament Japan Number One is the goal, there will be a total of 10 games from April to early June. There will be at least one game every week. Of course, if you lose early, you don't have to experience this schedule.
At this time, you can see that Kinoshita Little League Pitcher Lineup is abundant. Kōshū has been a left fielder in three games. Shibasaki, Sato plus the new freshman Kirimu are enough to cope with it. Anyway, the baseball game is about who gives up fewer runs.
Lang Zhi was able to stably serve as the team's starting shortstop this semester. After having a junior who didn't know the truth, at least in the team, his personality became more stable. Then he didn't know what he saw. One day in early May, he asked Kōshū to take him to do some pitching-related training.
At that time, Kōshū's first thought was, "Do you want to steal your job from me?"
"No!" Lang Zhi exploded when he was teased before, but now he has learned to endure. "Infielders also require a lot of strength in passing the ball, so I want to do some pitcher-specific training to improve the strength of the shoulders."
"Not bad, are you looking for Coach Ninomiya again?"
Lang Zhi acquiesced, and then urged, "Hurry up!"
Kōshū The daily life of a pitcher, elastic bands, medicine balls, dumbbells, etc. There are a lot of equipment anyway, so it's okay to divide them among others.
In the blink of an eye, there is another 8-4 game this week. The subject of pitching has not been thoroughly studied. The timing of Cutter's change is relatively late. If the batter stands in front of Batter's Box, it will weaken the power of this ball. Therefore, Kōshū is constantly trying to make this ball sharper and find the best condition. The pitches are marked in the video, and compared with the pitches at other times, this is the method he is currently using; in terms of hitting, he is very difficult with the ball on the upper edge of Strike Zone, especially the high inside angle. This is the conclusion drawn from the Batting Cold Zone demo conducted by coach Kinoshita Yanagi.
"The body must be steady, the head cannot move, and the hands are lower than the stick. How can you use force like this?" Kōshū originally thought that his hitting was good. After focusing on practicing high shots, he had to start correcting his posture all over again.
Time is tight, so after returning home, Kōshū will also practice in the small courtyard, putting the T-stand on the chest and fixing the striking position until Lang Zhi finishes the exercise and calls him up to exchange items.
At the beginning of May, Shen Qing just went to Confinement Center. Grandma Sasaki, who had been busy for a while, couldn't take any time off. Sometimes she would come over to watch them practice. After watching them for several days, she stopped coming, not because it was too repetitive.
After watching the children giving her additional baseball training, Grandma Sasaki sighed, "Playing baseball is really not easy. It really requires a lot of willpower. It's amazing that such a young child understands the direction of his efforts. I only thought about the homework of the girls' school." She felt it was a pity. She lived in a house so close to Seido and could see the games on the playground from the balcony, but it turned out that the old man was watching.
Kōshū, who was praised by the old man, reviewed his mentality when he first joined the team and was surprised to realize the transformation of himself and even Lang Zhi. They went from the passive attitude of being sent to play baseball by their parents, to experiencing the sense of accomplishment of enjoying rapid growth. After a period of time, they came to the current bottleneck period. At this time, they were all actively thinking about some ways to solve the problem: 'The penetration of baseball is really scary. ' It has changed from a thing to kill time after class too early to become the most important part of after-school life.
Time waits for no one, and the game is coming soon. The team in this game is a team that they have trained with before. They faced Kōshū once and lost 5:2. They faced Sato once and won 6:7. It should be said that both teams are very familiar with each other.
The characteristic of Kinoshita Little League is that Pitcher Lineup is rich and defensive, but the players with high batting averages are not enough to fill a batting line, and the attacking firepower is relatively concentrated, making it easy for people to break through.
As for Myoizumi Little League, it is obvious that they are connected in series. Their cooperation is very tacit. As long as there is someone on the base, they will definitely steal bases or hit and run. However, the shortcomings are also obvious. Several pitchers rotate, and they are replaced every time they are hit. They lose a lot of blood. Once they can no longer eat the meat from the opponent's pitcher, it is easy to bleed to death.
Faced with the recent defeat of his subordinates, Kōshū is still very cautious. After the failure, he will reflect on it, and others will too, but I don't know how far they have studied it.
At the beginning, Kinoshita Little League defended first, and Kōshū threw the first ball, a high-speed outside-angle straight ball.
Yibang's eyes lit up, 'guessed it! ' But it couldn't be hit, and it directly hit the Foul Ball ball. 'Has the tail power of this guy's ball become stronger again? '
The second ball is in the same position, but something is wrong. Why is it sinking? Mingquanji's bat hit an infield grounder, and the game got off to a bad start with two goals and the game was out.
The second bat that came on immediately received Signals from the coach, asking him to watch a few more balls.
Hayakawa smelled the opponent's waiting breath, and without courtesy, two Outside Corner Ball earned two strikes. When the batter was impatient, he came with a Changeup, which suddenly interrupted the rhythm of the attack. The second bat was Strikeout.
When the third batter of the inning came, Hayakawa frowned. He was someone he hadn't seen in the last spring training. Could it be that he was in the first grade? But this sturdy appearance really didn't look like a first grader. Out of caution, Hayakawa asked for a Outside Low Corner straight ball.
Under the test, the third bat was immediately tested. He did not continue the wait attitude of the previous batter, but directly released the bat. However, the rotation speed of the ball was very high, and it floated upward from the batter's observation angle. It was probably the first time for San bat to play this kind of ball. The moment he hit the Foul Ball ball, he glanced at the position of the glove behind him.
For the second ball, just let him out. This three-bat swing speed is very fast, so you can't show him too many balls, so let's get a High Rotation Speed Straight Ball with a high inside angle. In this way, the ball that goes straight to the goal, coupled with the hitter's strong desire to attack, will become a Fly Ball in the right field.
"Yoshi!"
"Three Up, Three Down, beautiful!"
The salesperson in the supermarket was indeed a professional. Seeing that I was so absorbed in calculating the price of tissue paper, he immediately found me the cheapest tissue paper, which was RMB 13.9, with a total of 780 tissue paper in a 6-pack, which worked out to be only 0.017 yuan per tissue. I had just calculated seven or eight tissue papers, and the cheapest one was only 0.020 yuan per tissue.
Although but~! Going to the supermarket and figuring out which item has the best price is also a very important pleasure!