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Really nice.

Yeah, I'll bet!

It's all over between us.

Then you quit...

Go see her.

Hear what she has to say.

About what?

I'm sorry.

I'm really SOITY!

Just don't hate Yuko over this.

Please, Captain!

No one hates Yuko.

No?

It's you we hate!

So you should.

Did you know...

she'd quit school?

She did?

If you're going to run away,

at least run away with her.

Don't be such a coward!

Remember this till you die.

And never play baseball

ever again.

Here's some coffee.

And sugar.

You never played catch

with your dad?

There was no baseball gear

at our house.

I see.

The only thing to do with baseball

was those cards.

Hey, Dad...

What does 'One Ball, One Ghost' mean?

It says 'One Ball, One Spirit'!

Your handwriting's terrible!

It means to put all you've got

into every play, and never slack off.

Why would you read that as 'ghost'?

I read a lot of hol1'or comics then.

But that was the only time...

I ever saw my father

really, really laugh.

When he and my mother broke up,

he put on a fake smile for me.

My daughter thinks I used her mother

as nothing but a caregiver.

She may have a point.

My wife had to care for my father

when he went senile.

As a reporter, I was never home.

I'd always wanted a job

that would connect me with baseball.

And after university,

I finally got one.

She was worn out.

I was too caught up in work

to notice that.

When I found out

she'd had an affair...

...I couldn't accept it.

I said some nasty things to her,

in front of our daughter.

But the actual divorce...

...only came after my dad died.

I'd decided to quit reporting.

I switched to work with regular hours,

but he died right after that.

It was too late.

My wife asked for the divorce,

but my daughter doesn't know that.

She thinks I abandoned her mother

when she wasn't needed any more.

And your daughter went

with her mother?

She was in elementary school.

I failed her.

I disqualified myself

as her father.

Did you talk to her then?

Of course I did. I apologized

for what I'd done to her mother.

But Sanami didn't choose me.

You made her choose?

You can't do that!

If you didn't make a choice,

she wouldn't understand.

She wouldn't have any idea

how you felt.

She's the one who'd feel abandoned.

That wasn't fair.

You're not going to the game tomonow?

There's no point going to every game.

It might be better if I didn't.

Why?

No special reason.

Mie, phone.

Who is it?

A woman calling about

Kawagoe Academy.

Hello? Mie Tozawa speaking.

My name is Yuko Tachihara.

I was the baseball team manager...

at Kawagoe Academy.

Can you come to the game tomorrow?

h?

I'm Yuko Tachihara.

That was my maiden name.

Tm Mia Tozawa.

That's my name now.

My call must have been a surprise.

A letter came to my parents' house.

It said that if I'd really been

involved with your father...

I should talk to you.

From Mr. Sakamachi?

They're playing now, aren't they.

Yes.

Let's wait outside till it ends.

I still can't bear to watch

high school baseball.

I've been avoiding all that

ever since it happened.

How was the game? Did you win?

Oh, yes...

Yuko?

Good.

Is that Yuko?

Yuko?

Congratulations on your second win.

Thank you.

I was team manager from 1982

until midway through 1984.

My name is Yuko Tachihara.

Now I'm a typical housewife

with two children.

I'm here because you ought to know

what really happened that summer.

Yuko, you don't have to explain here.

This is the only way you'll all know.

Yeah, but...

All of you...

probably know...

I had an abortion that summer.

The day before your play-off.

I couldn't afford to wait any longer.

Matsukawa wasn't the father.

It was the boy Matsukawa injured,

a student at another school.

He'd been avoiding me

after I got pregnant.

If I hadn't run into him

coming home from the hospital...

nothing would have happened.

I was with Matsukawa, and the boy

said he didn't know...

...whose baby it was.

Then he said some awful things

about the Kawagoe baseball team.

After the fight...

Matsukawa said

he could never face you.

I was going to tell you

what had happened...

but he stopped me.

He'll get more than hurt.

Who knows what the guys'll do!

It's bad enough already.

So let's just let them think...

it was me.

So...

please.

I think he felt that if you all knew

why he got into the fight...

that would make me responsible.

You'd have lost respect for me,

and said it was all my fault.

I think he wanted to make sure

I wasn't hurt any more.

And so...

for my sake...

he took the whole team's anger

on himself.

Nori was...

Norio Matsukawa was

that kind of person.

I ran away from it, too.

I was afraid to see you.

In the end...

I ran away from Nori, too.

That's the whole truth.

It was all my fault.

I even ended up hurting you.

I'm really sorry about this.

I'm really...

very son?-

So Nori...

didn't trust us.

He thought...

we'd lose respect for Yuko.

He just decided that.

What an idiot!

He always was a clown.

And so were you!

We were your friends!

I know I should have said something.

I'm sorry.

Still...

Nori might have been right.

If we'd known,

we'd have killed that guy.

Right, Captain?

Finally...

that clown':
back on the team.

I'm glad you told us.

Thank you.

No one on a team will stand by

and watch the manager get hurt.

I said some harsh things to you.

I'm very SOITY-

Third!

Thank you!

Saitama Prefecture! Final

Captain...

We're running out of time.

The last inning?

Four runs...

Last inning.

This is the last inning!

I'll go see what he wants.

OK?

What?

They went to Koshien last year,

so they'll give you the game.

They all know...

who you are

and what happened to you.

Well?

I'll talk to them.

Don't make a big thing of it.

The Masters Koshien

is for everyone to have fun.

I'm disappointed in

you Tokorozawa guys.

Sony?

Does the Tokorozawa team

deliberately lose baseball games?

At our school we'd die

before we did that.

Win or lose...

at Kawagoe we give our all

in every game.

That year we weren't given

the chance to lose.

We were never eliminated.

For us...

that summer isn't over.

We want to end it right,

and lose if we have to.

But don't wony. We didn't come here

to lose to Tokorozawa.

Just like that summer,

we intend to win.

I hear you.

In that case,

lose to your hearts' content.

We intend to.

We're going to win this!

Give it all you got!

You said it!

Play ball!

Strike!

Run! Run! Run!

Take three!

Safe!

OK! Leave this to me!

Safe!

Safe!

Captain! Go for it!

Out!

Yam ashita!

Swing away!

Go for it! You can do it!

Strike!

It's going!

Yes!

Thank you.

What are you crying about?!

Way to go, Dad!

Sony!

Be there!

Time, please.

Time out!

SorfY-

This happened that year

in the semi-final, right?

Yeah!

'One Ball, One Spirit', right?

That's what we need.

One Ball, One Spirit!

Let's do it!

We're there! Let 'em hit!

Thanks.

Third!

Out!

Nice play!

Assemble!

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