soul of baseball

Chapter 373 Are you going to fight?
At the beginning of the game, the Taiwan team took the lead.

Shen Qin, who was squatting, looked at the opponent's first blow and found it a little funny. He never thought that it would be Liu Baobao who almost ruined himself back then.Thinking of this made her feel unhappy, and pointed her little finger at Nolan on third base, who could only shrug her shoulders. Of course, this was not a secret signal. What I taught Liu Baobao back then was also necessary for the plot.

Liu Baobao~ Shen Qin still showed his little finger to Hide Uesugi. The warm-up before today’s game felt very good, and as he got older, his strength also improved greatly, and now he uses a wooden stick. , Carter!Just right.

No~ Let’s point fingers first~ Let’s see how familiar your Japanese players are with this type of ball~
Hideo Uesugi also held the ball with crossed fingers in the glove, and only changed to Carter's grip with the movement of the glove during preparation, and then switched again, because the crossed grip will bulge on the glove The appearance is usually used to confuse the opponent, but it has been going on for so many years, who knows if you throw your fingers now?
Lifting his left foot, he strode forward and threw the ball vigorously toward home plate with his right hand.
Speaking of crossball, there is no way. He grew up and practiced in Japan. The first thing he learned was the change ball, and the most useful ball is the crossball. If he gave up this, his baseball career would be very difficult. Disaster!And there are exceptions, isn't the Japanese pitcher Masahiro Tanaka who is now starting the New York Yankees in the major leagues the lead pitcher?I haven't reached the point of TJ until now~
huh~
Liu Baobao swung his bat violently, but the original red ball fell straight down!This is where the cross is scary. You must know a conclusion in the baseball circle: vertical > horizontal!

Looking down at the catcher again, he couldn't help but sigh. A few years ago, he was also ignorant and did what Xichuan Long said. Who knew that Shen Qin was so pitiful now?And Xi Chuanlong actually stood there?
God knows what kind of speculation the current media will make if this matter breaks out, or how much reward you can get for breaking the news yourself?

Thinking of this, Liu Baobao shook his head and raised the stick again. Now it's a competition, so he wants to do so much.His eyes fell on Hideya Uesugi's hand holding the ball~the spot to put the ball~Here comes, Carter running to the outer corner?
Although I was surprised by this type of ball, the stick is not difficult to keep up with...

pong!Click!

The two beeps sounded almost at the same time, the bat was squeezed and broke, the original force was dispersed, the ball fell softly to the ground and bounced out into Pepe's glove, and a light pass to first base killed Liu Baobao.

Shen Qin patted the glove and gave a thumbs up to the mound. Are strikeouts important?On paper, maybe yes, but is it really that important?Strikeout means that every hitter needs to use at least three balls, and there will only be more and no less. For example, five innings for the starting pitcher is the foundation, and if you go up, six or seven innings are excellent.

Let’s do the math. When an immortal pitches, each hitter uses three balls. One half-inning uses nine balls, and five half-innings uses 45 balls. This is a fairy. Of course, the possibility in reality is basically the same. It is 0, and the remaining one is a fantasy, so you don't need to care about it.

So what is the reality?A strikeout hitter may average 5, 6, 7, 8 balls in a start, and then can he really go up and down in one and a half innings?
Of course, the possibility is very small. If you keep pursuing strikeouts, the most likely outcome is that you are overloaded with the number of balls used in the inning and you may not have enough.

After all, not everyone is Dr. K's.

The ground ball pitcher is different. For them, one ball is the norm. Have you ever seen a 90-ball pitcher? What about 80 balls?

Strikeouts = consumption of balls; ground balls are not equal to savings. Once caught, the possibility of being cracked is very high. Of course, that is in professional games with various scouting reports, but in this kind of game now Among them, Carter is simply too easy to use.

"Ha~" Shen Qin raised his head and glanced at Liu Baobao who ran back angrily, and couldn't help laughing the moment his eyes met.I can't help but feel that I have a little guts. After so many years, I still remember some things firmly.

Liu Baobao walked up to Shen Qin and stopped.

Shen Qin stared, could it be that he wanted to fight?It's great to fight by yourself!

"Come on, it's fine."

Huh?After the person left, Shen Qin turned around suspiciously, what kind of script was this going on?

Uesugi Hideo on the mound also breathed a sigh of relief, but was still wondering where the conflict between the two was.

……

After solving Liu Baobao, Uesugi Hideo also felt better. The 8-ball made three ground balls and easily won the first half of the round.

The teammates cheered each other on, but Dr. Yuan in the anchor room looked at Huang Xiao in dismay, and got mad!
In front of the two, they could see the frame of the strike zone. Except for three hit balls among the eight balls, all the remaining five balls were bad balls except for one low ball.But the strange thing is that only Liu Baobao's swing does not need to be disputed, and the rest of the balls are all outside the strike zone and are called strikes.

If this situation is in the major leagues, it is not surprising. After all, there are statistics on the framing data of catchers who catch the ball well.Shen Qin's adopter, Yuri, is one of the best. He has saved the team countless points over the past few years.

The outside world speculates that this is why pitchers leave the Cardinals and their statistics will decline.Because they don't need to think about the distribution of the ball when paired with Yuri, all they have to do is try to get into the position that the catcher wants.

But after leaving, due to the trust relationship with the new catcher, whether it was pitching or other aspects, there was always some unfamiliarity. There was a problem with the guidance, and it was completely normal for the performance to decline.

But the problem is that this is not a major league, and the catcher is not Yuri, but Shen Qin, who is squatting for the first time~ This is of course not a coincidence, five balls are enough to prove it, especially those with a huge gap.

The anchor Huang Xiao asked in surprise: "Dr. Yuan, what do you think of this?"

Ball commentator Dr. Yuan was also taken aback. In fact, he is different from Huang Xiao. He is not a fan of the Cardinals and Yuri. The storm in Williamsport.But even so, he couldn't deny that Yuri taught children cleverly, and he put his heart into it.

Yuri's personal characteristics are very distinctive, and his squatting and catching skills are different from anyone else.

Most catchers are in a forward leaning position with their legs bent and upper body, or ~ most or maybe better every one. (If you are interested, you can go and have a look)
But Yuri is different, he always bends one leg for support, while the other leg stretches out straight and horizontally, keeping the center of gravity of the body to the lowest, so that the risk of catching and escaping will be reduced to the bottom.But this movement requires excellent physical coordination and has been practiced since childhood, otherwise it will not be able to perform at its best.

Now the big league Kansas City Royal catcher admits that he is learning from Uri.

Not to mention those little fans who are playing~
Dr. Yuan coughed twice: "Yuri~ should have been teaching him, Shen Qin~ It was true what he told the media before to be a catcher! He will! He is still doing very well!"

(End of this chapter)