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So I'll be back in Japan for the first time in half a year...

At about the time when the Penant Race will reach its conclusion.

Another final battle

Number 7:

Catcher, Sato.

Toshi-kun!

Toshi-kun!

We're counting on you to hit a big one, Sato!

Well then, it's the lower half of the 9th inning. The Tokyo Warriors has gotten a runners out who could make a comeback.

Sato, who has gotten two safe hits today, enters the batter's box.

They only need one more win to win the championship, and this is their third series of matches against Blue Oceans.

Having lost the first match, this is the second one.

They have to put this chance of a game-ending home run to good use and win the championship!

Hitting...

Runners at first and second...

At the very least...

I have to make the runners advance!

Out!

Out!

Game set!

The game is over!

In the end the Oceans made a double play; making the three players on base "left on base"; and the Oceans win again!

The Warriors championship win is postponed again!

Aw geez.

The victory beer is postponed again.

Don't complain.

When you have to wait for it, the taste will be all the more exceptional!

Yeah I know, but still...

Sato, three safe hits in a match, you're in good shape!

Yes, well, but if we still lose...

Don't worry.

We'll win nicely tomorrow.

Also, I can see it in you.

You'll be the Newcomer King!

The Newcomer King!

You didn't "put on the starting mask" until after half the season had passed, but you've surpassed the standard batting ratio, at 30 % you're good enough!

No, not someone like me...

There exists a much more increadible person after all.

You mean Mayumura?

Well, you're right...

That's a monster.

But still, to have a former battery contest over being the Newcomer King, that's a irony for you.

Sato.

The coach is calling you.

Y-Yes sir!

Your last at-bats...

Why didn't you try for a home run?

At that time...

I thought that my main priority was to make sure that the turn would come to the guys behind me.

Your batting is in good shape, and you've got the power to hit a long one.

In a situation with just one more hit to go, you have to have faith that you can finish the match.

I'm sorry.

Even if you're a rookie...

You are one of the Warriors' starting players.

Have enough spirit to carry the team!

Yes sir!

I'll raise your batting number to 6 for tomorrow's match.

What is it?

Are you dissatisfied?

No...

It's just...

Tomorrow Mayumura is predicted to be in the opponent's starting lineup...

and I have got no hits out of 8 at-bats against him this season.

I thought that I might cause trouble for the team...

In that case, make sure that you won't cause trouble for the team.

I understand.

Excuse me.

Sato.

Take the title of Newcomer King with your own bat!

Yes, sir!

Newcomer King...

huh.

Okay, We'll shoot the picture for the front page now,

- please get lined up, both of you. - In use.

Mm, looking good.

The battery who won Koshien, the two famous rookies!

Now they're going to smear their flame on to the Pro stage! Yeah; something like that!

Well done in that match against the Arrows last week...

where you shut them down completly.

Yakuji and Kusano are doing their best too...

So I...

can't afford to lose either.

Shigeno...

has become the closer of the Triple A Memphis Bats, I've heard.

Yeah.

I've heard it too.

Since it's him we're talking about...

I'm sure he'll fulfill his dream of joining the Majors very soon.

I'm planning on going too, eventually.

He's...

He refused to go Pro, and chose to challenge the Majors instead.

But...

not me.

First I'll become Newcomer King.

Get the most wins...

The greatest defense ratio...

become MVP...

I'll absorb new skills in Pro baseball...

Take lots of titles, and then challenge the world.

After that, is my showdown with Shigeno.

That's just like you, Mayumura.

How will you do?

Toshiya, your breakfast is ready!

Okay, I'm coming!

Oh, Toshiya!

What do you think?

Warriors...

Victory Commemoration Sale?

During one week after you've won...

I was thinking of lowering the price of all the bentou's/boxed lunches in the store with 50 yen!

And we won't stop there!

Once you've become number 1 in Japan, we'll throw a sale with a price cut of 100 yen!

And if you become the Newcomer King, all wares will be half price!

If you do such a selfish thing, the shop manager will get angry with you.

No, he won't be angry.

He's a long-time Warriors fan.

I'm happy for what you're doing, but please don't overexert yourselves...

Don't worry.

This is all that we can do...

to cheer you on, after all.

This is fun.

It's almost as we're playing baseball together with you, Toshiya!

Grandpa...

Grandma...

I know! Let's make leaflets and distribute them in the neighbourhood!

You'll hurt your hip again...

What are you saying?

My hip won't hurt just because of something like this.

To the Warriors' Dome, please.

How will you do?

The world, huh...

To be honest, I haven't thought about that.

I've always had becoming a Pro as my objective.

And my family is happy...

And the Warriors' fans are all expecting me to do great things.

I'll continue playing baseball in Japan.

Don't you have a will of your own?

For what reason are you playing baseball?

To make someone else happy?

Are you going to stay in the lukewarm bath forever?

Wait a moment!

Going up against the world is certainly an available path to take but...

That's not all there is, you know?

Your choise is definitely an easier path to take than throwing away all the achivements you've managed so far...

and going alone to the unknown America.

It's a lukewarm bath.

Toshi-kun!

I'll get off here.

Toshi-kun!

Toshi-kun!

What do you think it is...

that Sato lacks?

What he lacks?

It's greed.

Greed?

He became a Pro in the first draft.

And also became a starting player.

After achieving his long dream...

He no longer has an objective.

Last night...

His decision to try to pass the chance to the next batter wasn't a wrong one.

To tell a rookie to drag the whole team himself...

might be a bit too harsh to ask.

But...

I don't want him...

to be satisfied with just this.

I want him to be more greedy, so he'll train harder.

He'll become...

one of the men who'll carry the japanese baseball world on his shoulders in the future!

If you win today, it'll be your 10th win.

Well, you're completly shutting down your rival Sato, too...

If this continues, you'll become Newcomer King for sure.

But still, don't drop your guard.

Especially with the heavy hitting Rodman.

He's the current homerun king, after all.

Rodman?

What?

Why are you making such a surprised face?

Are you implying that Rodman's not that great / no threat?

He isn't.

Strike!

So they've brought out their Ace, Kamihira.

They're desperate too.

This'll be a pitcher's battle.

We're counting on you, Mayumura!

Were did he go?

He's probably raising his concentration.

Oh yeah, that ceremony of his.

Strike! Batter out!

Strike! Batter out!

Nr.3:

Right (side, or arm?), Rodman!

Come on, rookie!

Strike!

Strike two!

Even though you're called homerun king...

You've only gotten that title because you only concentrate on going after the second rate pitchers...

After all, you're just...

A fake!

Strike!

Batter out!

His pitches are sharp today as well.

Yeah.

Do you remember?

The first match I played against you,

The Scholarship student team VS the Dream Island team.

That time...

you came from the Dream Island...

and desperately tried to win...

to aquire the seat of regular catcher.

That tenacity of yours...

blasted my full-strenght gyroball all the way to the backscreen, wasn't that so?

"Eventually, I'd like to fight this guy for real."

The only ones who thought that was you and Shigeno.

I thought you were the one who wanted to fight...

against Shigeno the most, but...

If you're going to stay in the lukewarm bath, I won't stop you.

I'll be the one to become Newcomer King!

Against the current you...

I know for sure that I won't lose!

Strike! Batter out!

The one who will stay in Japan...

and the one who will aim for the world...

Is the reason I can't hit him...

the difference in our aims / our will?

Sato gets struck out in his second at-bats as well!

They are former teammates who are now competing for the Newcomer King title, but...

Shigeno-san,

Sato is completly suppressed by Mayumura, isn't that so?

Yeah.

Mayumura is in a great condition after all, but that's not all...

I get the feeling that Sato is uncertain in his at-bats today.

His swings are uncertain...

He can't hit like that.

Strike!

Batter out!

Tanioka is struck out!

6th inning, all batters were struck out!

The only runners Mayumura let out was because of an error from his teammates once, and Four balls once.

Maybe his tenth win will be a no hit, no runs!

His pitching isn't getting weaker, so...

he might actually accomplish that.

But, Kamihira is also shutting the other team down completly...

The one who'll score first will be at an advantage.

Out!

Out!

In the middle again!

In this inning, suddenly Kamihira-san didn't have control over his pitches.

It can't be...!

Time, please!

Kamihira-san!

Could it be...

Your shoulder hurts from the injury from last year?

Yeah, it's straining a little.

I got too distracted by it that my pitches went bad.

But I'll be alright now!

But if you hurt it again by being too reckless, it would be a disaster.

You should change out.

Do you think I can go off (the field) in this situation?

Our victory hinges upon me!

I want to be thrown up into the air for my pitching skills!

Let me pitch!

Fastballs won't do the trick here.

Here, let's corner him with breaking balls.

Start with a curveball.

It doesn't bend/curve!

Out!

Nicely played by Kurogome, well done keeping up!

The 7th inning ends and it's still 0-0!

Strike! Batter out!

That idiot. He swung too wide again.

Nr.4, Third:

Uchimura

Uchimura!

Give it your all!

Our relief pitchers are unstable right now...

Against Mayumura, our chanses to win are slim.

Ball!

Four ball!

We'll use a "sending" bunt here, right?

Yeah...

Next up is Sato, but...

do you want to put in a pinch hitter?

I can't allow...

Kamihira's shoulder to become more burdened...

This inning...

We have to win this inning somehow!

You've only got this shoulder!

Goro-kun, you've...

only got this left shoulder left!

Together with you, Goro-kun...

I want to go to Koshien together with you, as well as everyone here!

Toshi.

In that case...

Will you listen to my request?

Finish it this inning, will you?

You're the only one...

who can hit Mayumura's pitch!

(echo) who can hit Mayumura's pitch!

(echo) who can hit Mayumura's pitch!

Out!

Coach!

Sato!

Can you do it?

Yes, sir.

I will.

Definitely!

You're wrong, Mayumura.

That time, I wasn't thinking of becoming a regular at all.

"I wanted to respond to Goro-kun's wish"...

that feeling helped me...

hit that homerun!

It's always been that way.

In the Little's...

and in middle grade...

Someone depends upon me...

those feelings...

has given strenght...

to this my bat!

Foul!

What's the matter with this guy?

Suddenly his swing got a lot better.

Shall we scare him with curves?

What?!

Seems like you've found your answer.

Sato.

That's how it should be.

Otherwise there wouldn't be any meaning in...

returning the favor!

Strike!

Foul!

Foul!

I've got a rival straight ahead of me, competing against each other we rise together.

And then there's the fans and my family cheering for me...

as well as team mates and coaches I can trust.

As long as there are people counting on me...

I will play!

Here in Japan!

There it is!

Homerun!

This two point homerun was priceless/invaluable!

The Warriors has more wins than losses!

Yes!

Toshiya!

Before challening the world...

you've acquired something else to do, it seems.

But eventually...

If I really get in the mood to challenge you...

then that time, I'll go.

Strike! Batter out!

Game set!

The Warriors win!

Continuing from last year, they've dominated the penant race!

Texas Raiders lose consecutively!

They were unable to get closer to the championship victory today as well.

Oh man... what are the guys up there doing?

Hurry coming back... Honda Jr.

This time I'll strike your 100 mph pitch all the way to the stands!

Hey, Junior!

The coach is calling for you!

I'm being introduced to the Majors?!

Yeah.

It seems like the Raiders' third baseman has...

been added to the accident/break-down list.

We'll be severly damaged to lose you from the team...

but if the upper guys are having an emergency, it can't be helped.

Take the first flight to Texas tomorrow morning...

and join up with them.

The last, seventh match against the Falcons...

with league victory on the line...

We'll win this...

and win this championship!

During all this...

That man has appeared in the stadium!

Next on Major:

A great man

Run towards the stage of your dreams!

A great man