Diamond Ace Takanono

Chapter 17 Friends in the Baseball World

friend of the baseball world

After the first hitter saw the carter ball, the second and third hitters in the big victory all raised their vigilance, but in the end they were all resolved by straight balls from the inside and outside corners.

"Today, Hasegawa's straight ball is powerful. Is it because what he said before going on the court played a role? There is no problem of a weak start." In the first half of the inning, the three hitters were successfully resolved, and Miyuki returned to the bench with a relaxed mood.

"Today's ball is very powerful." Miyuki praised Hasegawa without hesitation, but the other party didn't buy it.

The coach paid attention to what was happening on the bench, noncommittal. He knew that the relationship between Miyuki and Hasegawa was not very good, but Miyuki could use Hasegawa's refusal and anger towards him to better distribute the ball, as long as it went smoothly The coach doesn't care much about their personal relationship, and will only emphasize on solving all problems on the court in certain meeting moments.

The backup catcher Nakamura next to him, after Hasegawa deliberately ignored Miyuki's compliment, handed him water: "You are in good condition in the first game today, but did you use too much force?"

"It's okay, thanks to the reason you warmed me up, I will soon enter a state of excitement."

Nakamura looked at the high fighting spirit in Hasegawa's eyes, and silently complained in his heart: "You are not playing against the opposing team, but you are playing against Miyuki."

"Make good use of the state of the straight ball today, and I think we can win it smoothly." Other players also came to encourage Hasegawa, and he readily accepted.

Miyuki, who was sitting on the side, looked puzzled at the cheerfulness over there, and thought of Takanono of the Kinoshita Junior League, and was really depressed why he sincerely expressed his optimism, but was misunderstood as a provocation.

In the second half of the inning, the players were lying on the railing to cheer for the hitters. After hitting the base with the first bat, Miyuki also started to prepare. The players spontaneously discussed "Is it a straight ball?" "It should be a straight ball."

After observing the two balls, Miyuki interjected, "The opponent's pitcher is not very confident about the straight ball, and the catcher doesn't even match the straight ball anymore."

"Then which ball to aim at?" Everyone who was chattering shut up a little, and the captain asked a few people away.

"For me, I will aim at the ball after 2 good and 1 bad. No matter what the ball is, hitting it out or hitting out of bounds will affect the mood of the pitcher duel."

Because I witnessed the scene where Miyuki ran afoul of his seniors last year, when the brain circuits temporarily failed to keep up with Miyuki, the teammates around him would choose to shut up to prevent being targeted.

While talking, the second shot was a sacrificial high-fly, and the captain of the fourth shot went to the preparation area. Without the captain's response, Miyuki stopped talking, and the teammates around him also started talking in low voices.

The third bat was unconsciously led by the change ball, the infield bounced the ball, and the guerrilla threw to the first base to block the third bat.

With two outs and second base, it was Edogawa's fourth bat. The first ball was high and missed. The second ball was a ball high in the middle, and the third ball was a ball far out. , So far, the four batters have already got three bad balls before they hit the bat, and then there is a low slider. Second and third base.

When Miyuki, the five-bat, came out, he was facing 2 outs and 2 bases. The Edogawa Juniors had already scored a run. Miyuki stood still, feeling the catcher looking at him.

"Haha, let's see, anyway, today your pitcher's straight ball is not powerful, and you can't hit the corner. Just now, you hit three bad balls in a row with four bats, so now the only pitcher who dares to hit the strike zone is the tiebreaker." The slider bar'.

The first ball was a high straight ball from the inside corner, and the control of the ball probably returned a little bit, and the general wiped the edge of the strike zone, and was shot out of bounds by Miyuki.

"Wow, it's thrilling, but fortunately it fell out of bounds." Miyuki looked down at the home plate, "It seems that the pitcher's straight ball is slowly recovering."

Then for the next ball, guess the slider.

"bump--"

'Haha, I guessed it'.

The Edogawa Little League hit another run.

"Has he guessed it again?" Hayakawa Qiu muttered.

After getting Takano's question, Hayakawa Akira explained: "Miyuki-kun is very good at guessing the intention of shooting and arresting, so he doesn't work as hard as others in strike training, but the effect of every strike is not bad."

"Eh? Do you know that glasses boy?"

"Well, we know each other." Akira Hayakawa noticed Takano's strange expression: "What's the matter, what happened to you and Miyuki-kun, did he come to ask me for your email address in the last practice match?"

"...So, is it you?"

When Hayakawa heard this, his face was full of question marks, but he could probably guess the reason: "Didn't I say that I came to West Tokyo after I moved? When I was in East Tokyo, Miyuki and I were neighbors. Playing baseball together, he was a catcher back then."

Gao Zhiye was amazed: "Hayakawa-kun, are you friends with him?"

"It's hard to say, I always can't figure out Yuxing-kun's mind, but once I invited him to my house, he didn't refuse."

"As long as the invitation is not rejected... Is this what Japanese friendship is like? Then if I invite you to my house, will you come?" Gao Zhiye looked at the simple-looking catcher in front of him, and shook his head. Give him a straight ball.

"Hey, wait, it's Taka-kun and Sasaki-kun's house."

Takano was originally just asking casually because of the mood of "making friends in the baseball world" in his heart recently. Seeing Hayakawa's panicked look, considering Hayakawa's pure and good demeanor, Takano's evil intentions came.

"Yes, hurry up and agree, I will teach you, this is the way Chinese people make friends." Nonsense, if Chinese people are not good friends, they will not easily invite people to their home.

However, although Hayakawa-kun was a little awkward, he was persuaded and nodded in agreement.

"That's all right, it's tonight. Do you eat onions? Today my dad said he can make hamburger meat. I sent him a message and asked him to prepare more ingredients." Gao Zhiye started editing as he spoke. mail out.

"Hey, let's eat directly at Gao Jun's house, but I haven't told my family yet."

"It's not easy, my dad has already replied." Gao Zhiye raised his phone and only looked at the latest email. Mr. Sasaki's reply was OK.

Seeing that the deal was done, Hayakawa-kun had no choice but to send a message to his family. When he was typing, he suddenly had an idea, "I always feel that Taka-kun and Miyuki-kun can become very good friends. It's an illusion."

In the remaining innings, pitcher Hasegawa of the Edogawa Junior League was still full of anger and gave the opponent consecutive strikeouts. However, the opposing pitcher barely used the straight ball to recover the ball and a good shot when he could not get fire support. The slider to create an out, the two teams maintained a score of 2:0 until the end.

"The Edogawa Little League has won." Hayakawa-kun turned on the phone and muttered while typing, "I'll send Miyuki a message, congratulate him."

But he was blocked by Takano, "Hayakawa-kun, you should stop sending messages to Miyuki in the future, because it's easy to be tricked by him, we are opponents."

"Ah, but Miyuki-kun knows that I will come today, if I don't send a congratulatory message, won't it be too good?"

"What? In the end, that guy invited a lot of people like a peacock spreading his tail. Did you say that I'm here too?"

Akira Hayakawa felt that if he said "yes", Takano would definitely say something else, so he moved his eyes to the venue and said against his will, "No, I just replied to Miyuki-kun and I will come."

Fortunately, Takano was in a hurry to leave and didn't notice.

The dinner that day was very grand. As the first friend invited home by Takano, Mr. Hayakawa received a warm welcome from Mr. Sasaki and Shen Qing. Feeling jealous: "That's great, I made my first friend after coming to Japan. Look at how happy my parents are."

Gao Zhiye rolled his eyes, and immediately felt that this was a good way to deal with Lang Zhi, so he put his arms around Lang Zhi's neck, and said kindly: "What's the matter, Lang Zhi, don't say that, actually, my first time in Japan A friend is you."

Lang Zhi looked at Gao Zhiye in disbelief, and raised his arm. It was the first time that Gao Zhiye saw someone get goosebumps on his arm because of his words.

"Hahahaha", he took the drink and ran back to his room excitedly, as if someone was chasing him from behind, Lang Zhi stayed where he was, not wanting to get involved in such a childish game.

He turned on his phone and looked in the address book to see who he could invite to his home. No, in order to surpass Gao Zhiye, what he needed now was to see who would invite him to his home.

'Damn Takano, since he came, I have to keep doing things that challenge myself. Lang Zhi looked through it and found that he couldn't find such a person, so he put all this 'resentment' on Gao Zhiye.

There was a sound of closing the door upstairs, and his parents were still packing up in the kitchen. After thinking about it, he decided to help his parents clean up first, and then go to make trouble for Gao Zhiye later.

When Gao Zhiye closed the door, Hayakawa Qiu was still secretly looking at the room, seeing Gao Zhiye coming in, he quickly sat up straight.

Gao Zhiye recalled the interaction with his former friends in China, pretending not to see Hayakawa’s discomfort, and felt a little annoyed. Hayakawa’s recent thoughtful actions might be just for the team or something, but he himself wanted to find someone A friend in the baseball world' suddenly invited him here.

But since Hayakawa was invited, Takano took advantage of the opportunity to talk about his junior high school, including some things he didn't understand when he came to Japan. Hayakawa gradually found the backbone in the conversation, and also talked about his junior high school.

"By the way, Coach Ninomiya doesn't need to go home. He goes back so late every day, as if he heard that he has a son."

So Hayakawa used the gossip ability that surprised Takano, not only coach Ninomiya, but also the character of the assistant coach, and Takano was very good at talking. spent most of the night.

When Hayakawa came home, Mr. Sasaki insisted on driving him home, and Lang Zhi squeezed into the car, but passed by Mou Mori, Lang Zhi wanted to eat new products, and they got out of the car again to have a supper.

After that day, Hayakawa felt that Gao Zhiye seemed to have become his friend. After telling Gao Zhiye, he was ridiculed: "This still needs to be confirmed? Are you a girl who is waiting to be confessed by others? You have a good relationship." Naturally, they are friends, it’s because the relationship between friends in Japan is too distorted, or you don’t trust yourself too much.”

(End of this chapter)