Diamond Ace Takanono

Chapter 70 The Spring Competition Begins
The long-awaited two children were finally born. Gao Zhiye and Langzhi each held one, standing beside the hospital bed, and the family took a group photo.

"Are you ready?" A soft swaddle was placed in his arms, which made Gao Zhiye a little at a loss, it was too soft, and he didn't dare to move.

"You also grew up from such a young age." Shen Qing's eyes were full of nostalgia.

April is a full month for everyone.

Shen Qing unloaded the goods, and raised her until the end of the month and entered the confinement center. Looking at the messages she sent every day, she was living very well, and she was not hungry, and she lost weight as soon as she saw it.

After Mr. Sasaki was overjoyed, he finally had a real sense of heaviness to support his four children. Fortunately, the children are still in the confinement center. For him, his work has returned to normal, and he has a reason not to be lazy every day, but All kinds of extra baby products at home also show that his leisurely life will not come back for many years.

Grandpa Sasaki was talked about by his grandma many times in private because of his aggressive naming, but he still did not give up. He sent the couple his new name in stock every day. Finally, one day after a family referendum, the boy among the fraternal twins was named For 'You', the girl was named 'Qianxue'.

Grandma Sasaki has been making various soups every day this month, and finally made Shen Qing feel nauseous. In the second half of the month, the whole family shared the enthusiasm. Except for the junior high school students who exercise every day and have a strong metabolism, other family members have gained weight visibly. a lot of.

For the two baseball teenagers, the biggest event this month is the spring competition within the league. First, through the branch civil war under the regional league, the team representing the branch is selected, and then there are a total of 7 teams in the 16 major regional leagues. The Kinoshita Little League team belongs to the Nishitokyo branch of the Kanto League. The Kanto League is a relatively large league with 5 branches. Eventually, 5 teams will participate in the spring game. Among the 16 teams, Nearly one-third came from the Kanto League, so in the history of the Little Senior League spring competition, the Kanto region has won the most championships. In recent years, some people have expressed dissatisfaction and proposed restructuring, but Takano still adopts this schedule this time.

At present, the West Tokyo branch has played three rounds, and there are still 3 victories left to represent the West Tokyo branch in the spring competition. The spring competition is the last 4 games, so if the spring competition is aimed at Japan, April There will be a total of 4 games until the beginning of June, and there will be at least one game every week. Of course, if you lose early, you don't have to feel the itinerary.

At this time, it can be seen that the Kinoshita Little League pitching lineup is abundant. Takano is left fielder in the three games. Shibasaki, Sato, and Tongmu, the new junior, are enough to cope. Anyway, who is the baseball game compared to? Lose less points.

Lang Zhi can be regarded as the team's starting shortstop this semester. After having a junior who doesn't know the truth, at least in the team, his personality has become a little more stable. Then he didn't know what he saw. One day in early May , Let Gao Zhiye take him to do some pitcher-related training.

At that time, Takano's first thought was: "Do you want to fight for my job?"

"No!" Lang Zhi used to explode when he was teased, but now he has learned to be patient: "Infielders also require a lot of strength to pass the ball, so I want to do some pitcher-specific training to improve the strength of the lower shoulder."

"Not bad, are you looking for Coach Ninomiya again?"

Lang Zhi acquiesced, and then urged: "Hurry up!"

Takano's daily life, elastic bands, medicine balls, dumbbells, etc., anyway, there are a lot of equipment, so it's okay to share it with him.

In a blink of an eye, there will be another 8-for-4 game this week. The subject of pitching has not been thoroughly studied. The timing of the change of the Carter ball is relatively late. The hitter standing at the front of the strike zone will weaken the power of the ball, so Takano will not Stop trying to make the ball sharper, find the best pitch, mark it in the video, and compare it with other pitches. This is the method he uses at present; Difficult hand, especially high inner angle, this is the conclusion drawn from coach Kinoshita Liu's cold strikes.

"You need to keep your body steady, you can't move your head, and your hands are lower than the bat, so how can you use your strength?" Originally, Takano thought that his strikes were good, but after focusing on high-post training, he had to start correcting his posture from the beginning. up.

Time is tight, and after returning home, Gao Zhiye will also practice in the small courtyard, put the T seat to the chest position, and fix the strike position until Lang Zhi finishes exercising and asks him to go up to exchange events.

At the beginning of May, Shen Qing just went to the confinement center. Grandma Sasaki, who had been busy for a long time, couldn't take it easy. Sometimes she would come to watch them practice. After watching them for several days, she stopped coming, not because of anything else, it was too repetitive .

Also after observing the children’s baseball training, Grandma Sasaki lamented: “Playing baseball is really not easy, it really requires people’s willpower, it’s amazing that such a young child understands the direction of their efforts I was only thinking about homework for girls." She felt it was a pity, when she lived in a house so close to Qingdao, she could see the games on the playground from the balcony, but it turned out that the old man was watching.

Gao Zhiye, who was praised by the old man, recalled the state of mind when he first joined the team, and was surprised to realize that he and even Langzhi had changed. From the passive attitude of being sent to play baseball by their parents, they experienced 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 actively thinking about some ways to solve the problem: 'The penetration of baseball is really terrible. 'It has gone from something that was too early to pass the time, to the most important part of life after school.

Time waits for no one, and the game is coming soon. The team in this game is the team that had spring training with them before. Once against Takano, they lost 5:2, and once against Sato, they lost 6: 7 wins, it should be said that both teams are very familiar with each other.

The characteristics of the Kinoshita Junior League are that the pitching lineup is full and the defense is very strong, but the players with a high hitting rate can't fill a batting line.

The Mingquan Temple Little League, on the other hand, is obviously connected by hitting the line. Their cooperation is very tacit. If you get knocked out, you will be replaced, and you will lose a lot of blood. Once you can't eat the meat off the opponent's pitcher, you will easily bleed yourself to death.

Faced with the defeat of his subordinates not long ago, Gao Zhiye is still very cautious. After the failure, he will review himself, and others will too, but he doesn't know how far they have studied.

At the beginning, Kinoshita defended first, and Takano threw the first ball, a high-speed outside corner straight ball.

Yibang's eyes lit up, 'Guessed right! ’ But he couldn’t hit it, and it directly hit a foul ball, ‘Is the tail strength of this guy’s shot getting stronger again? '

The second ball, same position, but something is wrong, how did it sink?Mingquan Temple hit an infield roll with a stick, and was out with two goals after a bad start.

Immediately after, the second player who played received a signal from the coach to let him watch a few more balls.

Hayakawa sensed that the opponent was waiting, and he was not polite. Two outside corner kicks earned two strikes, and when the hitter was impatient, he hit a changeup, which interrupted the rhythm of the attack, and the two bats were struck out. .

Hayakawa frowned when the third hitter in the inning was reached. He was someone he hadn't seen in spring training last time. Could it be a freshman?But this burly appearance really doesn't look like a first grader. Out of prudence, Hayakawa asked for a low straight ball from the outside corner.

Under the probing, the three bats were tested immediately. He did not continue the waiting attitude of the previous hitter, but directly hit the bat, but the speed of this ball was very high, and it was floating from the perspective of the hitter. It was probably the first time Bat hit this kind of ball, and he glanced at the glove position behind his eyes at the moment he hit the foul ball.

For the second ball, just let him out. This three-stick swing is very fast, and you can’t show him too many balls, so let’s use a high-speed straight ball with a high inside angle, so that the ball goes straight to the goal. Coupled with the hitter's strong desire to attack, it becomes a fly ball in right field.

"Yo Xi!"

"Three up and down, beautiful!"

　The salesperson in the supermarket is really professional. Seeing that I was too obsessed with calculating the price of paper towels, he directly found the cheapest paper towels for me, 13.9, 6 packs with a total of 780 pumps, and the calculation is only 0.017 per pump, and I just calculated seven There are eight paper drawers, and the cheapest one is only 0.020 yuan per draw.

　　Although but~!Going to the supermarket, counting which item is the best price is also a very important kind of fun!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)