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Aoi, Misaki (pinksunbeam) wrote in disappear_rpg,
@ 2009-07-09 19:27:00

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misaki, toshimi

How far does a Ball fly?
Who: Makeo and Toshimi
What: Hanging around the Sky Park
Where: Sky park in the late afternoon
When: After school
Why: Misaki's trying to figure out things at her house and needs distraction.

Misaki stared down at the drawing she was doodling. It wasn't perfect, she hardly liked it but it was fun to work at. A differnt looking uniform with a baseball feeling to it. Her brother had given her the idea and it seemed to make the most sense. Fingering her locks she glanced around at the park wishing it was real. The place made her wonder just what reality was. The world of the shadows seemed so deep and dark, but at the same time, she liked it. There was something more real about that place then there was in this world and it was starting to get to her. Misaki didn't know why but she wanted to understand it.

She also wanted to understand sports better so she wouldn't get in trouble for school. She needed to talk to someone about it, other then Kiriko or Maeko. But she wasn't sure who. Pushing back her hair behind her ear she pulled up her knees and was lost in her world until a shadow fell over her light and she looked up, smiling. "Hello...I didn't know you were here."

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thrown_to_winds
2009-07-16 10:39 am UTC (link)

"That's the first thing you need to know, yeah," she nodded. "You try to hit the ball and run as many bases as you can without getting out." She paused. "As for when to swing...well, it mostly takes practice. Have you heard the saying, 'Keep your eye on the ball'? You have to do that, but you also have to visualize where it is in your head, and where you want it to go, and then the angle you hit it at and the amount of force you use has to be optimal for..." She stopped, realizing that she was venturing into the more complicated aspects of hitting. "It just takes practice," she said with a nod.

"And if you don't hit the ball...you know about strikes, right? And outs?"

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pinksunbeam
2009-07-17 01:07 am UTC (link)

"Keep your eye on the ball? Visualize it? Angle the hit...but I'm not good at math Toshimi-sempai. What if I totally miss and it goes over my head or hits me...that's gonna hurt isn't it?" Misaki asked as she looked at Toshimi a bit nervous. Hearing about strikes and outs she looked at her curiously. "Strikes and outs? Well I know you get three strikes and then you have to sit down, right?"

Misaki clasped her hands, "Practice, as in actually hit the ball? Well I'll give it my best...um...you won't laugh if I can't hit it right Toshimi-sempai?"

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thrown_to_winds
2009-07-17 05:32 am UTC (link)

"Th-that's just advanced stuff," Toshimi said, shaking her head. "You should work on hitting it first and then worry about how to aim it," she said. "It's all about timing. Oh, and if it's outside of your strike zone-- that is, if it's over your head or if it hits you or if the pitcher throws it in some way that would make it impossible for you to hit, that's called a ball. At four balls, the batter goes to first base automatically. That's called a walk."

Toshi nodded, "And yes, once you get three strikes, you're out. After three outs, the players change positions so that the team at bat goes to field and the team in the field gets to bat. The period in which both teams get to bat is called an inning." She stopped for a minute. "Are you following so far?"

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pinksunbeam
2009-07-17 11:02 pm UTC (link)

"Kinda...it's a lot to learn, but I think I have it. Um...A strike is when you swing at a ball and you miss, three strikes and your out. An out is when you miss the ball three times, a ball is when the pitcher misses the strike zone, which is where they have to throw the ball for you to swing at it, and if it hits you or you get four balls, you get to go to first base right away which is called a walk." Misaki repeated and smiled. She ran her hand through her hair. "Once there are three outs the team swiches and it's the other teams turn to try to hit the ball. And that time that they are up is called an inning."

"Sempai, what exactly is a 'Strike zone' and um...is there any other way other then not hitting the ball to get out?"

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thrown_to_winds
2009-07-23 08:42 am UTC (link)

Toshimi nodded approvingly. "That's right. You have a good memory, Aoi-san."

"The strike zone..." she thought about it for a moment. "The top is halfway between the top of your shoulders and the..." she realized how easy it would be for Misaki to lose track of what she was talking about. "It's easier to see a diagram of it then for me to explain it to you. You can find a good picture on Quickipedia, I think. Or if you want, I could try to draw it for you...oh," she stopped herself. "Before I forget, you should know that if you try to swing and then miss, that's automatically a strike, even if it would have been a ball otherwise. So you have to be able to judge whether or not it's in the strike zone yourself. As a general rule, though, in your position it might be better to swing more often than to not swing." The way Toshi figured it, if it were Misaki against a capable pitcher, the pitcher wouldn't even consider purposefully walking her.

"As for other ways to get out, that gets into the next part of the game: that is, after the ball is hit." She started counting the ways to get out on her fingers as she named them. "First of all, if someone in the field catches your ball before it lands on the ground or hits anything, that's an out. Second, if the ball gets to a base before you do, that's an out. And third, if you're running and one of the fielders tags you with the ball, that's an out too." Toshimi stopped to think. "I think that's basically all the ways, without getting too technical about it."

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