soul of baseball

Chapter 58 Fighting against the little dinosaur 1
Shen Qin of the Red Hat team ushered in the first foreign warm-up match of this year before Christmas.

The opponent is the traveling team 'Running Little Dinosaur' from another city.

The so-called travel team is basically composed of the coaches themselves, and then the parents will raise funds for donations, and then play around in a short distance that can be directly reached by the surrounding highways.

Under normal circumstances, a regular Little League team like the Red Hats would not compete with a travel team, but Paul agreed because he wanted to practice before the holidays. Jason led the team to compete at the baseball field of Warrior Church High School.

Today's starting shooting partners are Lynce and Jose.First baseman Tommy, second baseman Brown, third baseman Coach and shortstop Minato.In the outfield, there are right fielder Carlos, center fielder Keir, and left fielder Shen Qin.

Everyone was very excited, except Shen Qin who didn't feel much because he was ranked eighth and would probably last two and a half rounds before being replaced again before the attack.

It is impossible for anyone to be happy with this kind of scheduling. As long as they are players, who doesn't want to stay on the court for a while and perform well?Shen Qin is no exception.So under the knowing ending, it is natural that there is no motivation.

And Jose obviously has nothing to say about Shen Qin, who will be replaced at any time. He only hopes that he will defend well and focus on communicating with infielders and pitchers.

It's not that he looks down on people in the outfield, it's because Linser is a grounder, and if he's in good shape, he usually doesn't use the outfield.If you really wear it out, can you still expect outfielders to have 'laser shoulders'?If they have this power, the catcher might as well let them do it!

And to be honest, Jose is not too satisfied with the infield. Except for Coach, who is obviously superior in skills, and Minato, who has excellent reflexes, the other first and second basemen can only be regarded as average.He just wanted to finish his birthday and advance to the group, so that the team that was patchwork like this didn't want to stay for a moment.

Being on a team like this will only lower scouts' ratings, which isn't good.

Jose comes from a single-parent family living in a very difficult situation. The evaluation of scouts on him is directly related to whether there are any high schools willing to give him scholarships. Even the draft!Their family's economy will be better.

So he has no interest in the current game of playing for fun.

If Shen Qin knew what Jose was thinking, he would definitely give him a thumbs up. Apart from agreeing with his concept of reality, the most important thing was that he was not interested.

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Compared with the excellent equipment of the Red Caps, the little running dinosaurs looked a little shabby. Although the jerseys were new, the bats, socks, and wrist guards were all worn out, not to mention the most expensive gloves.

Most of the travel teams are community teams where the kids have grown up. In addition to the parents needing to raise funds to maintain the team, each child has to pay about 100 US dollars for uniform clothing and other expenses.

Although not everyone's family conditions are not good, but it is true that most of them are either relatively poor or belong to parents who let their children play tickets at will. Otherwise, they will not spend money on traveling teams at this critical age.

Shen Qin was very surprised by the name 'Running Little Dinosaur'. At the beginning, he thought the red hat was weird enough, but he didn't expect to meet something even more amazing!
"Asian." Xiao Min poked Shen Qin.

Among the little dinosaurs was a thin man who was warming up on the mound. He was of obvious Asian descent, with delicate and peaceful features and fair skin.

Shen Qin looked at the list: "Liu Xianji, it's not like our Chinese name, is it a stick?"

Xiao Min was a little confused: "What is a stick?"

"Korean." Shen Qin laughed and didn't explain the meaning of "Korea stick", but only carefully watched Liu Xianji's pitching.

Liu Xianji is quite thin, but he is not short, his ball speed is not slow, and he has a lot of changes.This is in line with the style of Asian pitchers.

Little Leaguer Shen Qin doesn't know much about it, but because of Yuri's relationship, the major leagues watch it a lot, and there is also an Asian pitcher on the Cardinals team.

Asian pitchers, especially Japanese pitchers, mostly belong to the type with a lot of balls. They seem to prefer to use various change balls to solve hitters than straight-forward grappling.

There was once a Japanese pitcher who broke into the major leagues and claimed to have seven or eight changeup pitches, which can be said to be invincible in Japan.

As a result, after coming to the MLB, the pitching coach thought that only the two hemispheres were complete, and the others were simply semi-finished products, which had no suppressive power against major league hitters.

This clearly reflects the absolute difference between Japanese professional baseball and American professional baseball.MLB pays more attention to the tail force of the ball, not only the speed of the ball, but also the speed and strength of the ball to the hitter.

Because the speed gun measures the speed of the ball. Some pitchers are not slow, but they lose their strength when they reach the hitter. Sooner or later.And maybe there are some differences in natural physique, so Japanese professional pitchers focus more on changing the ball over time.

"How?" Kou Chi asked Shen Qin while stretching his tendons. He was convinced of Shen Qin's observation ability. Subtle places and draw comprehensive conclusions.

"It's just warming up~ You can see what it is! And we are the first to defend."

Kou Chi glared at Shen Qin with disdain. It was obvious that this was not what he wanted to hear. Didn't he wear glasses himself?
"Ahem~" Acting 13 in front of Kou Chi's face seems to have never been successful, Shen Qin shrugged helplessly: "He has no strength, after all, he looks like a small body, and he hasn't developed yet. Where does the strength come from?" .But since he is ranked first, it must be because he has good ball control."

Jose, who changed into protective gear and came on the field, glanced at Shen Qin and said coolly: "It doesn't necessarily mean starting first."

The three of Shen and Qin were stunned for a while before they realized what Jose was talking about. It was simply that Shen Qin was the best example. He started in the left field and then changed players when it came time to hit. Isn't he just a parallel import? ?

"You..." Kou Chi couldn't hold back his temper at once!After practicing with Shen Qin for a long time, he may not have a good foundation in Shen Qin, but his talent is indeed real. Even if he doesn't believe in his own judgment, Yuri is definitely not just a layman talking nonsense.

As he said that, he was about to go forward to argue with Jose, but Shen Qin grabbed him. His ability and future don't need to be proved by other people's arguments!

(End of this chapter)