Taro Yamada gives up on baseball and enrolls in a high school with no baseball team; he encounters Haruka Kiyomine and Kei Kaname, the strongest battery, at his new school.
Kei still refuses to play baseball, but Haruka manages to lure him out to do batting practice with a certain offer; Aoi Todo and Shunpei Chihaya, who also gave up baseball like Taro did, can't hide their shock.
Kei invites Todo and Chihaya to his house.
Haruka pitches an immaculate inning; Todo hits a home run on the very first pitch he faces.
Declaring that staying where they are won't do them any good, Kokuto asks Kiyomine to consider transferring to Teitoku so that they can go to Koshien together.
Kei decides to set his sights on beating Teitoku in a revenge match after learning more about baseball; Todo is reminded why he quit baseball in the first place.
Toshiki Masuda
Haruka Kiyomine
Mamoru Miyano
Kei Kaname
Yōhei Azakami
Aoi Todo
Nobunaga Shimazaki
Shunpei Chihaya
Yuki Kaji
Taro Yamada