"Now it's one good and one bad! The ball this woman needs to be wary of the most is the sinker!!!
With my current familiarity with Wooden Bat, it is impossible to type it out!
It would take at least dozens of balls or more!
What pitch will you throw next? So looking forward to it! "
"How's it going? Sendou-kun! Our ace is very powerful, right?" Coach Mitani chatted with Sendou.
"Ah! I'm better than many men! It looks like today I'm going to make up for all the debt I've owed over the past few years in one fell swoop!"
"Really? That would be so glorious!"
After the small talk, the next Signals was also sent.
"Ping!"
A beautiful level Slider, the ball also flew out of the field behind him again.
"That's two good shots!" Coach Mitani hit Signals while talking. Since it was just practice, the conversation was very casual.
"Yes! Ozawa-san is really a very powerful person!"
At the same time, Ozawa prepares to pitch.
Get up, step up, wave your arms!
"Huh?" Sendou, who was swinging normally, saw the ball start to fall!
"Ping!"
The ball flew out.
"Is this a normal fly ball? So you lose again! Sendou-kun!"
"Isn't this normal?" Sendou replied casually.
"Hey! Aren't you angry at all? How can I continue to suppress you like this?" Coach Mitani thought to himself.
If Sendou knew this, he would definitely say, "Sure enough, every professional coach is a serious person! His heart is broken! (Your conscience is very broken!)"
However, after being eliminated two times in a row, Sendou couldn't really be indifferent. He spent the rest time carefully analyzing the situation and thinking about ways to break it!
But it's not time to worry yet. After all, the pitcher-hitter matchup has a batting average of 30%, which means three hits in 10 at-bats, which is considered the same level. It's only two at-bats now.
"What a headache! Ozawa-san and Changeup are too many!
Although the ball speed is not fast (he thinks), the posture is the same type of throwing different types of balls, and there is no easy-to-hit Ball Trajectory. If you react on the fly, it will not be easy to hit well! "
"Coach Mitani is also very experienced. A pitcher who knows so many types of pitches, it is also easy for the catcher to distribute the ball.
And you have to fight with Wooden Bat! "
Sendou never thought about it. If he wants to use Metal Bat, which he is familiar with and easy to hit Long Hit, and combine it with the soft ball that is easy to form Long Hit, then it is not called a duel or practice, but a unilateral beating, right?
"I can only barely get on Ball Trajectory to hit a few out-of-bounds balls. How should I hit them?" Sendou tapped his chin and thought carefully.
"Wait! Out of bounds? Hmm..." Sendou seemed to have caught something and recalled it carefully.
"Foul ball! Foul ball...," suddenly Sendou had a flash of inspiration and recalled a classic scene of Cross Game!
"Hey! Ozawa-san! Don't blame me! I'm going to bully you a little!" Then Sendou laughed softly.
"Time's up, it's time for the next one!" Coach Mitani shouted to the two of them at three minutes.
While practicing shooting, Ozawa thought of what the coach said to her just after the break.
"Ozawa, these two seats are suppressing you. On the one hand, you have really evolved in this year.
But the main reason is that Sendou-kun is looking for a feeling and he is not used to Wooden Bat!
But Coach Nakanishi said that this guy is very sensitive to touch, and his speed with Wooden Bat and finding feelings is far beyond imagination!
Don't expect him to get used to it in a few days. It's unrealistic to suppress this kind of monster continuously. You never know when he will find the feeling.
So you have to be mentally prepared! "
As for what preparation? Of course she knew that she had experienced too much in just a few games last year, and she thought very clearly when she accepted this training.
The feeling of being blown away last year is nothing compared to this training. The further you get, the more you can feel the gap!
But fighting with strong people is the only way to become stronger. The other party also needs this kind of training to quickly find a match state that suits them. After all, Sendou has too little actual combat.
"Since I will be bullied sooner or later, I will take back some money now!" This is probably what Ozawa is thinking now.
There is a lot of mental activity, but the hands are not vague at all.
"Crack!"
"Good shot!" Coach Mitani judged it this way.
In the third game, Coach Mitani also took the risk of letting the straight ball go into Strike Zone. He was very tricky but his opponent was Sendou.
Therefore, this ball also takes a very big risk. After all, the ball speed is too slow for Sendou!
What is really surprising is that the ball speed of Ozawa just now was faster than ever before.
"The huge pressure turns into motivation to push people to evolve. Didn't you expect it to happen so quickly?" Coach Mitani was full of surprise.
"I really don't understand this person. Just now he wanted to avoid me so much! Now he suddenly invested in Strike Zone!
It made me stunned! "Sendou said to himself in his heart.
"I can't think so much. I was eliminated three times in a row. It's so embarrassing!" While Sendou was thinking about it, the next ball had already come.
"Phew!"
"Crack!"
"Shenka!"
"What's wrong Sendou-kun, I didn't swing the bat for two consecutive balls!"
"Ozawa-san, it's really amazing!" Although I don't know, this is the first time Sendou has said this, but this time he is extremely serious.
"Zero bad goals and two good goals, so what are you going to do?"
"Learn from Azuma-bro!"
"Azuma-bro? Do you have a brother named Dong? Aren't you an only child?" Coach Mitani asked doubtfully.
"Uh! This means a very respectable guy named Dong, so he is called Azuma-bro!" Sendou forgot that there is no such name in Japan.
"I see! You young people are really different!" However, after such an interruption, Coach Mitani was not in the mood to ask him who Azuma-bro was!
"Learn from Azuma-bro!"
"Ping!" Sendou said as he hit the ball out of the court behind him!
"Learning from Azuma-bro is..."
"Ping!"
"Huh?" Two consecutive goals Coach Mitani could tell something was wrong!
"Use out of bounds!"
"Ping!"
"Watch it!"
"Ping!"
"So it's such a bullying style!" Coach Mitani How can you not see what Sendou is doing?
Only half of the ball is played, and without much effort, the ball will naturally change its trajectory slightly and fly behind you.
Although this style of play does not require any skills, as long as you have excellent Dynamic Vision, reflex nerves, and the ability to catch points, even if you only touch the ball a little bit, the ball will naturally roll behind you.
But this is just a simple statement. These talents are not enough, and the faster the ball speed, the higher the reaction speed required by Dynamic Vision. Although the swing speed can make up for it a little, when the ball speed reaches a certain level, talent still matters.
This style of play should not exist in the first place. Even if Major League's skillful hitter follows the reaction speed of a normal athlete and Dynamic Vision's ultra-fast swing speed, he may be able to fool a high school student with a ball speed of 135 kilometers. After all, the basis of this style of play is reaction speed, Dynamic Vision, which requires extremely high talents such as ball speed, space awareness, and catching ability, and reaction speed does not account for a large proportion. Any of the other three talents is enough for the world's top hitters to show off.
But Sendou suddenly appeared, Divine Beast, all of these super-classes. Under the suppression of this kind of talent, a style of play that could only appear in theory or in comics appeared in front of his eyes.
Moreover, Sendou itself is not in the same dimension as Ozawa. Sendou is very easy to play. You can say that you put the bat in a place about 0.1 seconds in advance and waited for the ball to hit it and fly out of the field.
"Sendou-kun! How did you come up with this method?" Coach Mitani said with a bitter smile.
Coach Mitani had to smile bitterly. This style of play was really bullying. It was just using talent to bully people.
"Oh! A flash of inspiration!" Sendou said casually. You can't say you learned it from watching anime in your previous life, right? And it is indeed a flash of inspiration to recall it, barely it can be considered a flash of inspiration!
And now, he doesn't know whether Cross Game has actually started serialization. All he knows is that it should start at about this time now, and he has been too busy to watch it recently.
(Cross Game started serializing in 2005, and the timeline is around this time)
"Now that we are practicing, you should put away this magical power first!" If Coach Mitani had read Journey to the West, he would definitely say: 'The Great Sage should put away his magical power! '
"That's it! Okay!" Just like that, the solution that Sendou finally thought of failed.
What he didn't know was that Coach Mitani had been deeply shocked, so he decided to walk Practice Match with all the seats in the seats, and even if the bases were loaded, he would push him to first base. It was so bullying, it was a magical skill to torture people!
"Then continue!"
"Yeah!"
"What a good opportunity! Sendou-kun just fought so casually and his mentality should be less tense. Take this opportunity to defeat him with combos in one go!"
"Yeah!" Ozawa nodded when he saw Signals!
"Inside Corner Ball?"
"Ping!"
"Slider?"
Then he stretched the card, allowing Sendou to hit the infield Ground Ball!
Then Sendou became autistic!
How could he not have thought of Coach Mitani's sinister intentions at this time? Take advantage of the moment when you are relaxed and pursue him fiercely.
The difference between Sendou and Azuma Yuuhei is that Azuma Yuuhei looks for opportunities through foul balls, while Sendou looks for the feel of Wooden Bat.
So he was just playing out of bounds, so the more he played, the more relaxed he became. Suddenly he was not allowed to play like this. In addition, it was just practice, so his mentality adjustment was naturally slow.
"Is this uncle already a sperm? And how can he be so serious about psychological warfare in just one exercise?" the autistic Sendou complained.
In the next two pitches, Sendou only hit one in the last pitch. If it was a hit, it would be a perfect one, Ground Ball in the infield.
Since the opponent was shamelessly playing psychological warfare, Sendou also began to argue seriously. Using the reason that his footwork could get on base, he forcibly changed the infield Ground Ball into Infield Hit!
And this, Coach Mitani can't refute at all. Only those who have seen Sendou's short-range bursts know how terrifying his footwork is.
Don't talk about them about that ball. Even if it was seen on the live broadcast, Major League's top infield fielding would not be able to Force Out him without defense. If there is defense, the result cannot be determined visually.
Coach Mitani knew that Sendou's feet were so fast that he could even drop his jaw, but he didn't know exactly how fast he was.
Half an hour has passed since a group of 5 dozen bench training, including rest time, and the next second group has 15 minutes.
Sendou must also seize this 15-minute opportunity to practice swinging and find the feel quickly.
In this way, it was actually extremely difficult to play in the last two seats, with double-digit balls tied up in each seat!
That is, 5 seats Ozawa has been
Shot more than 40 pitches!
If this continues, I'm afraid if Ozawa can't hold on to the ball after the third group, there will be enough flaws for Sendou to catch!
That wouldn't be training, and Ozawa wouldn't need to hone his ability to resist blows.
At the beginning of the second set, it was exactly what Coach Mitani thought. Although he couldn't get a hit, it was difficult to get Sendou's number of outs.
An average of 8.2 balls per bench, and a total of 41 balls were used in the 5 benches to finally end the second group, and the number of safe outs was only twice, and the other three times were once Long Hit, and two infield Ground Ball were enough to put Sendou on base.
It is normal for Infield Hit to not be serious. Although it is Wooden Bat, with the unique elasticity of the soft ball, for Sendou, even if it is not a complete sweet spot, the ball will not fly close.
In terms of the number of balls, the two of them can play four groups, but considering that Sendou doesn't know when the blow will break out, the pressure on Ozawa is too great, and his physical strength is consumed extremely quickly.
According to what Ozawa said during the break, playing the next few seats with Sendou is more tiring than playing against 5 players in a row in the college league. This shows that it is average!
"Time's up, Sendou-kun, judging from the number of balls, this group is almost the last.
Ozawa still needs to participate in training, so he can't overdo it! "Coach Mitani explained to Sendou before the last group started.
"Yeah! I understand! Then, come on!"
Strictly speaking, in this last group, Sendou barely has the advantage, while Long Hit does not have the 5-seat 'Infield Hit' three times.
But if you look at the surface, the advantage of Ozawa is still there. After all, the advantage of Sendou is based on footwork.
"That's it for today! Sendou-kun, if you don't mind, just wait here and we'll almost have lunch!" Coach Mitani finally shouted to Sendou.
"Is the lunch here delicious? I'm very picky!" Sendou returned. He had been depressed all day today and didn't want to upset his stomach again.
"Don't worry! Our nutritional mix is complete, diverse and delicious, and it's nice to eat with so many beautiful girls, isn't it?" As he said this, Coach Mitani went off track again.
Sendou I didn't expect that Coach Mitani, who usually has a very serious impression, would have such a personality.
But as long as he eats some and is delicious, he doesn't choose so many.
Please vote! Brothers, can you believe that I haven't had dinner at this time? I don't dare to do it, because I'm afraid it will be too late to update.
And I didn't expect that there was a power outage at this time, maybe because of the snow, but it doesn't matter, I typed it offline and then turned on 4G to send it.