Get past him!
And it's past the infield!
All right!
Safe!
Mitsuru Adachi
（Serialized in Shogakukan's 「Weekly Shonen Sunday」）
Created by
Toshihiro Nakazawa
Nobumasa Sawabe
Planning
Masato Hayashi
Rei Anami (TV TOKYO)
Shin'ichirou Tsuzuki
Planning Assistance
Toshisato Okuno Shin Omura Takenori Ichihara
Tetsuya Takeda
Supervisors
Original Planning Assistance
Michihiro Tsuchiya
Series Composition
Yuji Kondo
Main Character Design
Maho Takahashi
Tomoyuki Matsumoto
Koichi Imano
Art Design
Subcharacter Design
Prop Design
Kayoko Ono
Miki Tsubouchi
Hiromi Komine
Yutaka Kuramoto
Art Director
Color Design
Photography Director
Editing
Nobuhide Tanaka Toshiyuki Kuroiwa
Kotaro Nakagawa
Takeshi Takadera
HALF H・P STUDIO
Music Producer
Music
Sound Director
Sound Production
「Summer Rain」
Lyrics／Composition: Kentaro Kobuchi
Arrangement: Kobukuro
Kobukuro
（Warner Music Japan）
Opening Theme
Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment
TV-TOKYO Music
Warner Music Japan
Music Assistance
Ryosuke Sakurai
Animation Producer
Animation Production
Shin'nosuke Wada (TV TOKYO) Naohiko Furuichi
Producers
Osamu Sekita
Director
Shogakukan Shueisha Production
Production Studio
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This isn't the first time you've been scored on, remember?
It'll keep feeling bad no matter how many times it happens.
You're out!
Out!
That's a 6-4-3 double play!
Perhaps we're seeing Oikawa's determination in action here;
he's faced every batter with fastballs down the middle.
And that ball just now was...
150km/h!
Is that how fast a 150km/h pitch is?
Oh yeah.
I guess you wouldn't be able to see your own pitch
as a batter squaring off in the batter's box.
Strike three!
And yet another changeup!
Thanks to Akaishi's deft calling,
there's already two outs on Ryuou here in seventh inning.
Next up is the cleanup hitter, Mishima.
It wouldn't be too bad if I just walked him here, would it?
So?
Ball!
All right!
This is it.
What is?
Strike!
Here it is again: 156km/h!
He promised me this morning.
That he'd show me a 160km/h fastball.
Strike three!
He's always been able to do it like it's nothing.
Oh, well...
Mishima's bat slices the air for strike three!
The stadium is going wild;
the pitch that made Mishima swing just now was 158km/h!
I like guys who can throw 160km/h.
No way.
Is that number for real?
Yeah.
All of Japan is flipping about it right now.
I see.
So it didn't hit 160km/h, then.
What?
You want to take him up on a speed race, Oikawa?
Let's play baseball, man.
Baseball.
Strike three!
All right!
He's full of spirit!
Oikawa has retired the side in order this inning.
He's only given up two base hits in the eight innings,
which Seishu converted into a run.
Trailing by a run, Ryuou now has just the eight and ninth innings to make a comeback.
Six more outs and they win, right?
You're right.
Now that I think about it...
What is it?
Oh no, it's nothing.
I remember now.
Last year we were also trailing by a run in the waning moments.
We then caught up and made it to extra innings,
where we won in a walk-off.
So?
Second base!
I meant, center field.
It's important to imagine things like that before hand.
I see.
First base!
You're out!
With the possible tying run on base,
seventh batter Oikawa takes the plate.
Coach Terada has said before that Oikawa would be a cleanup hitter if he wasn't the pitcher.
His ability to hit the ball and his toughness in facing opponents is among the top on his team;
who better than him to take the plate at a critical time like this?
I just remembered, too.
Last summer,
we walked off with the win when he was unable to catch my line drive, didn't we?
Safe!
That was close!
That was a better hit than last year.
He strikes out, and that makes it three!
The runner is left stranded on base, as Ryuou fails to equalize.
All right!
What's with all the dangerous pitching?
Seishu Academy still leads by a single run
at the end of the eighth inning of the North Tokyo Tournament Final.
You won't get another turn at bat at this rate, Mishima.
Not in my head.
That's not the image in my head.
It's important to imagine things like that beforehand, remember?
Y-Yeah.
And we're finally in the last inning.
Batting third: Nakanishi (3B).
Show 'em you're good, Nakanishi!
And he's caught it!
What a fine play from Mishima!
That would have been an extra base hit if it had gotten past the infield,
and given the fact that the next batter is Azuma,
Ryuou has gotten themselves out of what could have been a very tight spot.
The North Tokyo Tournament Final has finally reached the bottom of the ninth inning!
Ryuou heads into their final at-bats still trailing by a run.
This is the home stretch!
Three more outs to go!
Indeed!
We're leading, aren't we?
It's already the ninth inning, isn't it?
Yeah.
It looks as if he'll catch up to it!
The right fielder runs toward the foul zone and...
He makes the catch! That's one out!
And the Ryuou lineup fails to put their first batter on base.
Strike!
He's quite an eleventh grader.
Yeah.
You couldn't swing like that if you were afraid of striking out.
Despite being an eleventh grader, Souma's been entrusted with the leadoff position;
he has not, however, been able to shine at any point in this game.
I don't remember Souma ever striking out three times in a game.
Slug it out, Souma!
Strike two!
He's now against the wall with two strikes!
Hit this for me, Souma!
If you can make contact, you have the legs to get an infield base hit.
The ball sails over infield and drops in front of right fielder!
Safe!
All right!
That's a double!
He'll be the one leading this team next year.
I couldn't care less about next year at this moment.
They'll go down fighting if they have to;
with one out and a runner on second, Ryuou now has a chance to tie!
Strike three!
Kishi, the second batter, strikes out!
We now have two outs!
One more out.
One more out!
One more out! One more out!
That punk.
At least feel a little pressure, will you?
You're going to the Koshien if you win this one.
Has Ko always been this composed?
No,
he used to be shaky and restless like me in the past.
That's a quality Wakaba left him with.
All right!
You're out!
Akaishi cuts down the runner at second
and that ends the ninth inning of this game.
However, we're all tied up here at one run a piece
as we head to extra innings!
We catch up to them and then go into the extra innings,
and beat them with a walk-off...
That's how it went, right?
1-1!
We've yet to see a winner here,
as the North Tokyo Tournament Final goes to extra innings.
And Seishu's Azuma, along with Ryuou's Mishima,
will be leading the attack here in the tenth inning as the clean up hitters will lead off for their respective teams.
It's a miracle.
Who would have thought two batters of Mishima's class would appear in the same year?
Kitamura.
If he walks Azuma, then you can do the same against them, too.
He won't run away from this one.
Slug it out, Azuma!
At least that pitcher won't.
He'll want me and Mishima to face off,
Azuma! Azuma!
if he trusts his own team's cleanup hitter, that is.
Slug it out, Azuma!
Azuma! Azuma!
Strike!
Looks like he trusts him.
And that's why they won the Spring tournament.
Enjoy it, Yuhei!
Thanks.
Did you really need a megaphone with a voice like that?
Slug it out, Azuma!
Azuma! Azuma!
You won't hit a home run off me!
You won't...
hit a home run...
All right!
What's "all right" about that?!
Safe!
That's a triple!
The Ryuou fielders relayed the ball perfectly,
but Azuma just barely makes it in safe by sliding in head first!
All right!
Azuma uncharacteristically pumps his fist in the air here, when he's usually calm even after hitting a home run.
With a runner on third and no outs,
Seishu Academy has a chance to escape with a win here in the tenth inning.
Not a single hit, outfield fly, squeeze, wild pitch,
passed ball, error, or balk is acceptable in this situation.
At the top of the tenth inning, Seishu's attack continues with no outs and a runner on third,
as Ryuou Academy, who is aiming for a second consecutive Koshien with this tournament,
is in their biggest jam yet.
Standing in the batter's box is fifth batter and captain Akaishi, who was responsible for Seishu's first run.
While waiting on deck is sixth batter Kitamura.
All right!
It's in the bag!
Yeah!
Calm down.
They're open.
What's open?
First and second base.
Ball Four!
He's going to load the bases with no outs!
The Ryuou bench has chosen to load the remaining bases
and take their chances against the bottom of the order instead.
A bases loaded strategy, eh?
We sort of have a bigger chance now, right?
Yeah.
If they slip up even a bit, then they'll have multiple runs to pay for.
But now that one run we could have gotten even if they were to make no mistakes, is no longer an option.
All right, here I go!
He may not look it,
but he's quite popular with his other teammates.
All right!
I think I understand why.
That's three outs and change sides!
In this absolute jam, he has not given up a single hit,
outfield fly, squeeze, wild pitch, passed ball, error, or even a balk!
Ryuou has gotten out of a huge jam,
as they start the tenth inning with Mishima, their cleanup hitter.
The situation could not get any better for Ryuou,
or any worse for Seishu.
Get him out no matter what.
Ryuou will become even more determined if Mishima gets on base.
The only way we can stop this ominous flow is to cut it off at the first batter.
Easier said than done.
The way you're playing today, you can do it.
I don't know what happened,
but with the way you're playing today, it's possible.
I agree.
It's possible with the way you're playing today.
At the bottom of the tenth, Ryuou will be starting things off with their fourth batter, Mishima.
Strike!
And he's still throwing as hard as ever!
That's not fair.
He's throwing all the fast pitches on my at-bats.
That's the fate of a cleanup hitter, isn't it?
Yeah,
I guess it is.
It's just inches left of the foul pole!
Ten or so centimeters...
and our ticket to the Koshien...
would have gone down the drain.
That's two strikes.
It'll be all right with the way you're playing today.
You're out!
He makes the catch!
Azuma makes a super leaping play and catches the line drive that was smoked off the bat!
One out.
My heart just skipped a beat.
Just watching this is tiring me out.
Climbing a mountain is way easier than this.
Shishido strikes out, and that's the end of the tenth.
It's now impossible to tell who will come out ahead!
Strike three!
His pitch just drops off the table;
he seems relaxed even at this stage of the game.
Damn it, I didn't get a single chance to shine today.
You are the one batter that they absolutely don't want getting into form, after all.
You could even say that they're pitching to you more carefully than they are against Azuma.
I see.
I guess that Oikawa really does know his stuff, eh?
All right, just wait until next time.
Don't forget that feeling;
since that's where you truly shine.
We're now in the bottom of the eleventh with Ryuou to attack.
Just a single run and it's all over, huh?
Are you enjoying this, Aoba?
Go compliment Ko for a job well done when the game is over.
I will, if they win.
Just do it when it's over.
Strike three!
And Nishiyama goes down swinging.
The eleventh inning is over with both teams going down in order.
This breathtaking 1-1 tie continues into the twelfth inning!
You're out!
Out!
Akaishi surprisingly attempts a swinging bunt with Azuma on first,
but grounds into a double play;
Seishu now has two outs and no runners on.
Batting sixth: Kitamura (P).
Slug it, Ko!
You want to play for a bit?
Nice batting!
Take me to swimming school on your bike!
You suck.
I'd like some sashimi!
I'm the pitcher with you as the catcher, right?
Yeah, in a jam-packed Koshien.
Hold Aoba Tsukishima tightly in your arms when the game is over.
Didn't I tell you that I hate you?
Yeah, I know.
Cross Game, the Final Episode:
More Than Anyone in the World.
I've always hated you...