The third ball was a corner ball to see if he had any desire to attack. The catcher showed Signals.
Pitcher No. 11 nodded and looked at Kōshū on Batter's Box. He was filled with the desire to win. He had heard of this pitcher before spring training. Last fall, after a game, the pitcher of the other team suddenly mentioned. "By the way, we have a very tall pitcher this year. He is the ace after Kinoshita Little League. I don't know where he came from. Do you know him?"
Pitcher No. 11, who heard about this for the first time, of course shook his head. "Tall? How tall?"
"Yeah, he's at least 1.8 meters tall, and he looks very serious. I didn't even dare to ask for his contact information after the game."
"Ah! Are you a sophomore in junior high school?" At 1.8 meters plus the height of Pitcher's Mound itself, which is 20 centimeters, that's a ball falling from a distance of two meters. They are a bunch of 1.5 meters and 1.6 meters. If they are facing such pitchers, aren't they playing against adults.
I was with West Tokyo, and I thought I would have to at least have a chance to meet Spring Tournament, but then I didn't expect that I met Kinoshita Little League during spring training. After playing a game with this pitcher, I was still very uncomfortable with the straight pitch and the ball speed. However, in the last few innings of the game, the pitcher only threw straight pitches. It seemed that he was experimenting in actual combat, so he failed to close out the game in the end.
'After today's game, I want his email address! ' Pitcher No. 11 threw the ball hard, aiming in the direction of Outside Low Corner.
Kōshū decided to change his thinking. Today he just played the ball as it came, regardless of whether it was good or bad, as long as it tasted good.
"Bump--" Unfortunately, this is a Two-Seam Fastball straight ball. Kōshū Although Kōshū thought about hitting the ball as soon as it came, he was adjusting his striking posture recently and the whole thing was a bit confusing.
When the ball was about to go over the second baseman's head, it was caught by a jumper. Kōshū slowed down his rush to the base. Hayakawa, who was on first base, had already rushed to the middle of the first and second bases. When he saw this scene, he skidded to a stop and rushed towards the first base, "Out!"
"Ah -" The great situation suddenly turned into two outs with people on second and third base, and only one run was scored until now.
Mo Mo and his partner returned to Dugout. Kōshū was holding on to the railing to watch the next blow from Lang Zhi.
Recently, Lang Zhi always said that Kōshū looked at him strangely. That day, he couldn't help but apologize to Kōshū first. He got the answer "Are you suffering from persecutory delusion?", and in the end he was confused and was fooled away.
In fact, Kōshū has a clear mind. He has indeed been observing Lang Zhi recently, but he was forced to observe Lang Zhi. It was coach Kinoshita Yanagi who asked him to observe The original words of Lang Zhi's attack were, "Aren't you two brothers? Lang Zhi has very good eyesight. For example, he can roughly estimate the speed and rotation of the ball. You can definitely do it too. I heard him say that he uses the seams as a reference. You can also look at the seams."
'The ball speed is okay, but the rotation speed... Look at the seams, look at the seams. The ball spins so fast and the time is so short. Is Dynamic Vision so easy to practice? ' He nodded in agreement on the surface, but was complaining in his heart, and then heard the big news from Coach Kinoshita: "I plan to put Lang Zhi in the third position, but his strength will be better. Coach Ninomiya is formulating an exercise plan for him."
"No wonder... he also came to me to practice pitching menu."
Kōshū knew that the coaches valued his younger brother, but he didn't say anything about it after he returned home. However, he now pays more attention to some details that he didn't pay attention to in the past. For example, the child now has strict requirements on himself without supervision, and sometimes he laughs suddenly, as if thinking of something good.
Kōshū feels strange in his heart, like he is not adapting to the change of mentality. It turns out that his younger brother is still very reliable? In other words, since they have been living together for more than a year, he has always suppressed the other person in all aspects. He will habitually feel that the other person is generally a head shorter than him. Now he is suddenly awakened and asked to learn from his younger brother's strengths...
Regardless of the awkwardness of the guy in Dugout, there are people on second and third base now, which is obviously a good time to score, but with two outs, Sacrifice Bunt can't walk the bases, Lang Zhi grimaced, now he has to hit out.
Under the calm, there was an undercurrent. The catcher of Myoizumi Little League did not dare to let down his guard. In the last game, this guy picked the four-bad On Base.
'Let's see if we can choose another four bad guys this time... No, among those who can take the turn now, I seem to have the highest batting average... So I still have to fight out. '
The first pitch, "Bad ball!" Lang Zhi just raised his foot, and immediately judged that it was a bad ball, and stopped again. The catcher's glove was placed on Outside Low Corner, and the pitcher threw directly to the high outside corner.
'What's wrong? The pitching time is too long and the sensitivity of my fingers has decreased. ' Without calling a timeout, the catcher thought for a moment and decided that in order to relieve the pitcher's condition, he wanted to hit a straight ball down the middle, 'It doesn't matter if it's a bad pitch'.
The pitcher almost hit a red, but Lang Zhi, who guessed that the pitcher had a ball control problem, missed the opportunity to release the bat. He took two steps back, relaxed, and then stood still again. After that, no matter what, he was about to release the bat.
One is good and one is bad. The next ball, Slider, turns from the inside corner to the outside corner. This is the best shot so far. Slider, Lang Zhi hit it, but there is no one who can control its landing. Point, dropped the bat and ran to first base. From the corner of his eye, he saw the ball falling weakly between the right fielder and the second baseman. When he was still two steps away from the base bag, the second baseman had already picked up the baseball and threw it this way. Lang Zhi jumped the base.
After the smoke, the referee ruled "safe!"
"Yo west, brother-in-law!" Hayakawa Seeing such a good situation, it would be a pity to lose one point. Fortunately, Lang Zhi stepped up and scored another point for the team.
The first baseman came forward and said, "You hit really hard."
Lang Zhi fanned the dust hanging on the tip of his nose, coughed twice, and changed the equipment.
The current situation is that there are people on first and third base and two outs. Lang Zhi decided to cause some trouble for the pitcher and left first base. Pitcher No. 11 glanced back at him. Lang Zhi pointed his toes toward first base and stared at Pitcher's Mound's movements.
But the pitcher didn't do anything, and with two outs, just concentrate on finishing these seven bats, and let him steal the base. Anyway, the second base bag is empty.
The seventh bat of Kinoshita Little League is right fielder Katsumura. He is good at fielding. As for hitting, like the next eight bats, he is a type that needs to be strengthened.
So even if Lang Zhi chose to steal the base on the second pitch, no one would care about him. The shortstop directly caught the infield fly. Lang Zhi just ran to second base. When he saw the shortstop catching the ball, he ran directly back to Dugout on the third base side.
"It's a good fight." Kōshū didn't know why there was a bit of excess in his words, and his smile was a bit fake.
Lang Zhi, who has always had a very sensitive sense of smell for animals, stopped suddenly at the entrance of Dugout. It was not until Kōshū personally handed over the equipment that he was flattered to find that he was really praising himself, so he smiled sheepishly.
"Let's go! We won't lose the score we earned so hard!"
Let me tell you a ghost story. We will conduct the Q4 quarterly report next week...
It has only been two months since the Q3 quarterly report was held in the second week of October...
It was said that the performance evaluation should be completed by the end of the month, so that the year-end bonus could be paid directly on the payday in January.. It seems that other companies have reached March or April. I don't know if our company wants to let us get the year-end bonus and leave as soon as possible, or what?