Stopper Busujima
	 Volume 6
	  Chapter 57
	   Those Who Know the Golden Age

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Chapter 57 - Those Who Know the Golden Age

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Announcer: If Ichiro hits one out of the park, this game is over!!

Tic: Don't tell me they're-

Announcer: The 2-1 pitch...

Busujima: {Don't blame me if this doesn't work, Sasebo.}

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Ump: Striiike!!

Tic: Hmm.

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Announcer: C... could that been...
	A curveball?
	A-absolutely...

Ichiro: B... Busujima threw a...

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Busujima: Curve!

Wake: No way...

Maki: HIM...?

Shimizu: When did he learn that?

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Saiki: Coach Hopper in Hawaii taught him how to do it.
	(but he said he'd never learn a circle change)
	And he worked his ass off in camp.

Kuroda: It can't match up against the very best of Hoshino or Kudo...
	But together with that fastball, it could be a devastating weapon.

Sasebo: {Thank God...
	Thank God he threw it in the strike zone!!}

Tic: That was luck!

Maki: (Mr. Miyake never gives him a break...)

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Ichiro: {If Busujima has a curveball...
	Then this stance won't...}

Nakanishi: The scorer ruled that one a curve...

Ohgi: Knowing the guys on the mound and behind the plate, that was probably the first time they've tried it in a game.
	That catcher's a tricky one.  He knows what he's doing.

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Ichiro: {He's grown again...}

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Announcer: And Ichiro strikes out on a 156 km/h fastball!!
	And with the sound of wailing Orix fans, we go into extra innings tied 3-3!!

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Miki: Once you learn how to throw that in the location you want, you'll be a grown man!

Busujima: What, you decrepit old bastard?!
	Don't act like I'm not grown up already!!

Coach: Coach, you really should give Uenishi an explanation for why you took him out early...

Miki: (Hmm?)

Uenishi: No.

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Uenishi: I realized that a pro needs to be ready to take on any battle he can,
	just by watching that at-bat.

Busujima: Uenishi...
	You sound really frustrated.

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Announcer: Sanjyo drag bunts for an infield single!!

Sanjyo: Man, I hit up FOUR bars last night, I can barely run.

Ogawa: Yeah right, you were in your hotel room at 11 o'clock.

Announcers: Honjyo swung at the first pitch and lined out... but Sanjyo bunts for a hit on a 3-2 count!!
	That's a tough batter to get out.

Honjyo: My hit was good too, asshole.
	(screaming liner to second)

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Miki: Time!

Announcer: Aha!
	He brings in the lefty-killer Yagi to hit for Yajima!!
	But he's so unspectacular that the crowd fails to raise a single cheer.

Yagi: Yagi time.

Pitcher: {Yagi's never hit off me in his entire life.}

Nakanishi: Can't believe Miki actually picked up that guy.

Ohgi: He's clearly looking for a bunt.

Miki: Whew.
	It's TIRING walking out to the umpires all game long.

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Announcer: Oh, but Nomura can't throw to second!!
	Yagi lays down a terrific bunt on a curveball with the bunt shift on!!

Crowd: Well... he did used to be on Seibu.
	He just wasn't a starting player.

Announcer: A well-executed attack the Athletics would never have pulled off last year!!

Yagi: {I have to repay Coach Miki for choosing me after I got released.}

Announcer: So there's a runner on 2nd with two outs in the top of the 10th.
	And now coming to the plate is a man with three walks today...

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Announcer: The 300 million yen free agent, Bill Rothrock!!
	Uh-oh, Ohgi's going to the pen.
	He brings in his closer, Taira Suzuki!!
	Ohgi seems to be pretty serious about this game.

(RL Figure: P Taira Suzuki was a strong relief pitcher for the Orix BlueWave in '95 and '96 when they 
won the pennant twice in a row, making 105 relief appearances during those two years.)

Ohgi: You've gotta be kidding, I'm not gonna let the ATHLETICS beat me!
	We only lost to them three times last year.

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Miki: Time to step up again, then...

Coach: Huh?
	Where are you going, sir?

Miki: Busujima is pitching.

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Miki: In the Athletics' Golden Age, they always won the games their relief ace closer pitched.
	But to anyone who remembers that team, we're a sorry replacement.
	I'll make any substitution I need to, in order to win this year.

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Coach: So what are you going to do?

Busujima: Whoa!

Announcer: And now, Coach Miki, who is infamous for sleeping during ballgames,
	has made an unbelievable player switch!!

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