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No way!

No!

No!

Lingering Feelings

Game set!

What an unbelievable end!

After two hours and fifty-three minutes of nonstop action,

the ace closes the game with his bat!

We have the champions of West Tokyo!

For the second summer in a row,

it's Inashiro Vocational High School!

The Seido players are still trying to process what happened.

They were an out away from the nationals.

Just one out short!

Sawamura.

Go line up.

Come on. Let's go.

Everyone, stand up.

We need to line up properly.

I'm so glad.

I've been talking so big

this past year.

I'm so glad we won.

Bow.

Thank you for a great game!

West Tokyo Tournament Final Seido vs Inashiro: 4-5

Winning School: Inashiro Vocational High School

In an attempt to regain glory for the school,

Seido High School: Defeated at Qualifiers

Third Base Side Locker Room

I knew we were gonna win!

Your eyes are red.

Our opponent was strong.

We only won because the players never gave up.

Masa-san!

Way to go!

I'll go cheer at nationals, too!

You can go all the way!

This is from the entire team.

Let's go to nationals!

Good luck at nationals.

Wow, that's heavy.

Yeah.

Especially if you think of all 120 schools.

Thank you for a great game!

Congratulations.

You'd better win it all, Harada.

Let's go to nationals!

If I were in his shoes,

could I have congratulated the opponent?

As the representatives of West Tokyo,

we can't do a half-decent job.

This is where our summer begins.

We need to go wild in their place, too.

First Base Side Locker Room

You got four runs from Narumiya-kun with hits and a squeeze bunt.

You were one step away from beating them.

The guys all played very well.

They all did their best out there.

I couldn't get them to nationals.

That's my biggest regret right now.

Nice game!

Yuki-kun!

Be proud!

You all did great!

Kominato-kun!

Tetsu-san!

Don't cry, Isashiki!

You were so close!

Masuko!

We are sorry we could not live up to your expectations!

Thank you for cheering for us!

Thank you!

Don't apologize, Yuki!

You were great!

We'll come to cheer again!

They were an out away from nationals,

but they lost in the end.

We lost in a similar manner.

It's a really hard loss.

It gets harder as time passes, too.

I think I'll go home.

You have something to do?

I need to study! Damn it!

I've gotta get ahead while the Inashiro guys party at nationals.

But I'm sure they'll get scholarships for going to nationals.

Shut up!

I was making a joke!

No matter how the losers feel on the inside,

we have to move on to the next chapter.

The guys at Seido will realize it sooner or later.

Mine-san, I may not be fit to be a journalist.

I have no words.

They were both very high-level teams,

and the game was incredible.

But...

What was the defining factor today?

That's difficult.

It wasn't a game ridden with errors,

and both teams played their own respective styles.

Right.

Seido could've kept going and won that game.

But if I really have to say why,

then perhaps it was due to Seido's lack of pitchers

that they had to use a first-year pitcher in the last inning of the final.

That pitch definitely stopped Seido's momentum,

but his prior pitches gave them momentum.

It was also the result of pitching to win.

No one can blame him.

The risk was well calculated.

They'd been winning with relays, after all.

Do you know how many walks each team gave?

Y-Yes.

Narumiya-kun gave two for Inashiro.

And for Seido...

Eight walks from four pitchers?

Seido Inashiro

Seido managed to win each game with four pitchers.

Whereas Inashiro put all their faith in their ace.

The lack of an indisputable ace.

Perhaps that's what cost them the game in the end.

Wh-Why?

We were an out away.

We were...

winning.

It's...

over?

It's...

We'll make nationals if we win one more?

I didn't even realize that, to be honest!

What?

I do what I'm asked to do every game.

I didn't have the luxury of thinking about anything more.

All my upperclassmen are just so amazing.

I respect them,

and they're super cool.

Well, a few I don't like.

I'm not really sure how to put it,

but I just want to keep playing with this team.

We lost.

This team lost.

Seido Spirit Dorm

August 1 Day After the Final

Tohru Masuko Yoichi Kuramochi Eijun Sawamura

Already?

Y-You have to leave the dorm so soon?

W-Well.

I'm leaving this room, but I'll still live in the dorm.

I'll come back for my stuff, too.

But I need to go home and talk to my parents first.

Some of us are doing baseball tryouts for college,

so you'll still see us around.

Kuramochi.

Good luck.

Man, this room feels so big now.

But there's nothing to rejoice about now.

I should go see the other rooms.

Wanna come?

Hey.

You can go home, too, you know?

We have the next two days off, Kuramochi-senpai.

I don't have anything to do back home.

Well, me neither.

Hey!

If you still look like that when I get back, you can eat my fist!

Damn it.

What am I supposed to tell him?

I'm still not over it myself!

The upperclassmen aren't around anymore.

How am I gonna lead the underclassmen like this?

— Last Night —

That night, we came back from a loss.

No one could touch the food that had been prepared for our victory,

and tears streamed endlessly down the third-years' cheeks.

Seido Spirit Dorm

And...

it wasn't better the next morning.

The moment they saw someone,

tears overflowed their eyes.

Their tears were much heavier than ours.

Much heavier.

We couldn't cry the way the third-years did.

That was the only thing we could do

as the first and second-years.

Principal's Office

I see.

You'll take two days off.

Yes, sir.

I must say, it was a very close game.

You really gave Inashiro a run for their money.

I was yelling by the end.

However, it's all the more reason why...

...it's unfortunate.

A real shame.

The players all fought hard until the end.

I'm sorry I couldn't bring home the win.

Oh, please!

We're not asking for an apology.

Making it to the final is a feat on its own.

Including the kids who aren't trying out for college,

there are still many who haven't decided where to go.

I'd like to talk with the team manager

and set up meetings as soon as possible.

Yeah.

I'd like to hear from the students, too.

Also, we have a scrimmage coming up next week.

We need to do something about the next captain.

Two outs and no runners on base!

They're just one out away!

In the last inning,

Sawamura didn't look like himself at all.

Why didn't I walk up and talk to him?

Was I rushing to win?

You're already reviewing yesterday's game?

Let's go to the nationals!

That's great and all,

but do you have to do it now?

The upperclassmen have already retired, and—

We weren't good enough.

I wasn't.

And the team wasn't.

Over the glove!

The game-winning runner scores!

What an unbelievable end!

After 2 hours and 53 minutes of nonstop action,

the ace closes the game with his bat!

Even with such unbelievable upperclassmen,

we couldn't win.

He's...

We don't have the indisputable cleanup, anymore.

We don't have an ace.

As it stands now,

going to the nationals next year will be nothing but a pipe dream.

Furuya.

You...

Were you running the entire day?

Hey!

I don't want to feel like that, anymore.

The game ended before my eyes,

and I was stuck in the dugout.

If only I...

If only I had been much better.

I'll take

the mound for myself.

I'll become the ace of this team.

We're still having a hard time taking the loss,

but we have to start moving on to the next phase.

I wonder who's going to be the next captain.

They say having a natural leader in your year makes everyone better.

They want to talk to me?

Could it be?

Next time on Ace of the Diamond: Restart.

Restart

Sawamoron, who do you think will be the captain?

Me!

What?