The original intention of the diamond ace

On the weekend, we will play against the third high school of the city, but this has nothing to do with our freshmen, we still run.

Since I have been practicing shooting with Okumura these days, our relationship has become better.When he was running yesterday, he was obviously out of shape, always looking at the bullpen.I wanted to ask him, but thinking of Seto Takuma, his inseparable good friend didn't say anything, so I don't need to be nosy.

After the daily practice the next day, I wanted to ask Okumura if he was free to catch the ball for me. I searched around and saw him and several other freshmen in the A playground. Standing where I was, "What's wrong?" I moved closer to those freshmen.None of them answered me, Seto smiled awkwardly at me, but I didn't care, and turned to ask Okumura.

"Are you free, Okumura?"

"Yes. Or in the B playground?"

"Yeah, hurry up, it's a bit late today, and it will be dark in a while."

Today's Okumura kid's daze is more obvious, I sighed, I can't practice like this at all.

"Let's go, I'll accompany you to see where Sawamura-senpai is now."

"Ok?"

"Don't you care, let's go."

"Excuse me."

"It's okay, possession of the ball is not a matter of a day or two, and it doesn't matter if you take a break once in a while."

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I saw Sawamura-senpai poking his head over there from a distance, before he walked in, "Because I just shut up and watched those two guys practice, and I'm not reconciled!!"

"Is that so?"

"That's it!!" Although I knew his voice was loud when I was in the stands, it was more impactful when I heard it up close. I rubbed my ears with a wry smile.

Seeing that he still has to say, I was smart and plugged my ears first.Oh, it seems that there was an argument with the catcher over the practice time.

"Let me catch your ball." I looked at Mitsushuu Okumura next to me in surprise, he turned his head and asked me softly, "Is that okay?"

"It's okay, I've decided not to vote today."

He turned his head and said to Senior Sawamura: "You will be pitching later, I can accompany you when you warm up."

Oh, I want to practice shooting. Can I practice those strange shots? I just want to take a closer look. I am so lucky today.

But I don't know why Sawamura-senpai was surprised, what happened to them?But it doesn't seem to be a big deal.I turned my head and looked in the hall. It was Furutani-senpai who was throwing the ball. How is today? The last game was a little better

"Crack!" The ball hit the glove with a very crisp sound.I frowned, isn't this worse? It's more like a practice than a vent.

But the catcher should be very clear about this kind of thing, so I don't need to talk nonsense.

"Is this enough? If you want to shoot, just throw it into the strike zone." I quietly stood behind the block.

"You... what did you see in Koshien? Is it the game you were looking for when you and Hongo pitched each other?"

Senior Jiang Gu made a sullen face and didn't answer him.

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"Ah~ I don't want to catch it anymore, it's really boring to catch your ball." He suddenly turned his head and looked at Yujing behind the block, "Is that right, Yujing boy." He saw me behind me, and I grinned at him smiled.

Yui said with some embarrassment: "No, it's very difficult just to keep up, I never thought about this kind of thing."

After that, Sawamura-senpai and Okumura seemed to have discussed it, and asked Okumura to help him warm up.Miyuki-senpai also stood behind the block, "Isn't this Oda, you seem to be with Okumura a lot recently."

"Yeah, I asked him to catch it for me." Miyuki raised his eyebrows, "So he's a pitcher, what kind of ball is he? '

"Miyuki-senpai, will Sawamura-senpai practice those strange changing balls today?"

"Why, do you want to see it?"

"Yeah, I'm very interested. I saw it in the stands before and thought it was amazing. I really want to take a closer look."

"Haha, yeah." He smiled but didn't answer me.

After throwing a few balls, Sawamura's movements began to slowly increase.

After ten balls, "I'm going to start shooting!"

I stared at the figure in front of me seriously.

Um?The right hand just blocked the left hand, and when he turned around, the left hand was completely behind his back, and then he threw it quickly.

In addition to displacement, is there a special pitching posture!No wonder so many people didn't play well.

"First is number1, a super fast straight ball with a high spin rate and will float upwards." Number, is it still 1?Wait, can he control the number of spins of his ball, which makes me more curious, how many such strange balls are there?

"Crack!" The first time I catch it, is it so good? Has Okumura-kun's ability to catch the ball improved? Hahaha, he has to thank me very much.

"The next number 2," Miyuki-senpai stood behind with his hips in the back, "the second seam that sinks in the way of the ball's rotation." Sawamura-senpai's second seam.The way of sinking is slightly different from mine.

"Can you vote for a while longer? Sawamura." "Okumura too"

"I'm fine."

"please……"

"Then continue, number7" "Carter ball change."

"Concentrate, Okumura, the next difficulty will be doubled."

Sawamura stood still, took a deep breath and let it out, raised his hand, took a step, and waved his arm.The ball flew straight to the home plate, and then, "Huh?!" I couldn't help but make a sound, and my eyes widened for a moment.Miyuki-senpai next to me glanced at me.When the ball reached the home plate, it cut across almost at right angles.Okumura moved the glove quickly, but the ball still passed the glove and flew into the block.

Is this a carter ball?I haven't seen any carter ball change range is at right angles!I stared excitedly at Sawamura, I was wrong, if the ball behind him has such a changing speed and range, then as a pitcher, Sawamura is much more qualified than Fubuya, and I am far behind him.

After all, there are many fastball players like us, not to mention the major leagues. Although the strength varies, but to put it bluntly, they are all those routines. We can only constantly strengthen the ball control and improve the rotation. Counting, if you think about suppressing the hitter simply through the speed of the ball, you will have been fooled long ago.

I never thought there would be such an interesting pitcher, how lucky I am!He is only 17 years old now, and his ball speed will probably continue to increase.The next thing is to be able to control those balls, and then strengthen the ball control.

And his changeup shots are all straight balls. I don’t know what kind of big changeup shots he throws. Ah~ I’m really curious about his future.

Afterwards, it was Miyuki-senpai who took over Okumura's position, and Okumura stared at Miyuki's back with a gloomy face.

I smiled and glanced at him, little wolf cub, you still have a lot of room for improvement~ It is impossible to surpass this senior now, but I am optimistic about you—

Miyuki glanced at us during the interval of passing the ball, "Oh, this junior is still waiting for me, hahaha, interesting." '

'However... this Oda-senpai is unexpectedly very kind.Most of the time, he doesn't seem to be able to integrate into the group, and he looks a bit withdrawn. It seems that he himself doesn't want to communicate with others.This personality is not very good, well, anyway, it has nothing to do with me, after all, I will leave the team at the end of the summer, so I will leave this trouble to the next captain~'

He squatted back and suddenly showed a slightly sly but silly smile.

I gave him a strange look, why did I suddenly smirk?This senior doesn't look very smart.