Eijun Sawamura had his heart set on the middle-school national baseball championships. But his team is eliminated thanks to a wild pitch thrown by Eijun himself. He’s planning to go to high school with his teammates and try again next year when he’s scouted by the famous Seido High School Baseball team. When he goes for a campus visit, he finds himself on the receiving end of a baptism by fire! His experience forming a battery with up-and-coming catcher Miyuki rekindles his passion for baseball!!
Sawamura has now moved up to varsity, and just as he starts to feel the weight of responsibility, a hellish training camp begins! The heroic measures of the training camp force the trio of first-years to finally realize the extraordinary resolution and overwhelming effort that their upperclassmen put into practice on the daily. And when the training camp comes to a close, the practice games begin, with Furuya and Sawamura’s pitching orders already decided…