BATTERY The Animation

Takumi begins attending Nitta Higashi Junior High and signs up with Coach Tomura to be on the baseball team. Tomura sees Takumi pitch on his first day of practice, and he tells Takumi to cut his hair.

Takumi goes home and finds out that Tomura is his grandfather Youzo's former student. Takumi doesn't like that the upperclassmen have ended practice early because it started raining, This leads them to begin harrassing Takumi. Meanwhile, Tomura goes to visit Youzo after experiencing Takumi's pitches for himself from the batter's box.

Takumi is ganged up and beaten by a few of his teammates inside the equipment room. Go is the one who finds him laying there and when the school soon learns of the incident, the baseball team must face their punishment.

Tomura tries catching for Takumi. They resume their regular baseball team activities, but Takumi acts defiantly even to Tomura. Tomura proposes an exhibition game with Yokoteni Junior High, but the principal tells him no.

Go has mixed feelings after Takumi didn't pitch as hard as he could against Yokoteni Junior High's slugger Kadowaki; Kadowaki visits his teammate and talks about wanting to play an unsanctioned game with Nitta Higashi.

Mizukaki tilts Takumi and Go's battery off their game. What's more, they offend Yokote's coach, and the game itself is called off. Go and Takumi's teammates try to help them patch things up between them, but they can't be persuaded.