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	 Volume 9
	  Chapter 1
	   Tie Game!  Tie Game!

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(Ch. 1) Tie Game!  Tie Game!

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Announcer: It was a strike that was turning into a ball.
	Even with his form slipping, he managed to connect the bat solidly with the baseball.
	3-2, Meiwa Ichi takes the lead!

Teams: Yoko
	Meiwa Ichi

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Noda: When Hideo is going to hit a pitch, the fact that one or two
	of the previous balls looked like strikes means nothing.
	We've seen him hit tons of homeruns in really weird postures.

Hiro: You can't make Hideo swing and miss at a bad pitch.

Yanagi: And this is the national tournament.
	They're not playing some wimpy team in a practice game.

Haruka: They're playing the best.

Kine: Mmm, mmm.

Hiro: Hey!
	This is my lunch!

Kine: Oops.
	Mife Hafhh, (nice catch)
	henhahiewa Hime. (centerfielder Kine)

Hiro: Why are you even here, anyways?!

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PA: For Yoko Academy, in to relieve the pitcher Tamaru-kun, Ogata-kun!

Yoko Coach: He's practically a genius.
	He's not someone whose concentration you might doubt before he steps into the batter's box.
	No more tricks.
	We fight fire with fire.

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Announcer: He's huge!
	Ogata-kun is over 190 cm tall.
	When his long arm gets full extension and slams that heavy-looking ball into the catcher's mitt,
	the batter must feel like the ball was hurled from the top of a two-story building.

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Noda: He looks tough to hit.

Yanagi: You can find great pitchers all over the country.

Haruka: Yep!  We've even got one right here-

Kine: Huh?
	Where, where?

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Hiro: Be careful.  We don't want any important starting players to get injured.
	I'm serious.

Ump: Strike three, batter out!

Announcer: Having finished the inning,
	Ogata-kun lopes back to the bench.

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Writer: This is good!
	This is a good wrap-up article.
	There are a lot more interesting comments than in Komiya's draft.
	Why don't we just use this one?

Takaaki: Hmm.

Writer: Who wrote it?

Takaaki: My girlfriend.

Writer: Huh?

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Agent: You see?

Brochure: Issei Insurance
	(one life to live)
	Our Caring Health Plan

Hiro: No, um, see,
	my mom isn't home right now.

Agent: Ho ho ho.
	So,
	look at this old age pension plan.

Hiro: No, um, see...

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Announcer: Tie game!  Tie game!

Teams: Yoko
	Meiwa Ichi

Announcer: A short hit to right with one out and a man on second.
	Machii-kun, the speedy runner, got a good start and made it home safely.
	Last summer's champion, Yoko Academy, has turned things around once again!

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Brochure: Old Age Pension Plan

Announcer: Grounder to third!
	5-4-3 double play!
	Ichinose closes out the inning to stop Yoko from taking the lead!
	We'll be back after the break with Meiwa Ichi, batting in the bottom of the ninth!

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Announcer: Yoko Academy is looking for a consecutive title.
	They've tied the game, but they can't make a single mistake now.
	The leadoff batter is none other than #4 hitter Tachibana, who hit a three-run homerun in the bottom of the sixth.
	This is his first at-bat against the relief pitcher Ogata!

Kine: Just walk him.

Noda: The go-ahead run, with nobody out?

Hiro: The visiting team can't survive an extra-inning game playing like that.

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Hiro: He'll pitch to him.

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Yoko Coach: That's our fastest pitcher, even faster than Eikyo's Hirota.
	Plus, with the height those fastballs are coming from...
	He's never practiced hitting pitches like these.

Noda: Looked like he was measuring the timing.

Hiro: Just a little fine-tuning.

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Yoko Coach: Daah!

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Announcer: What speed off the bat!
	What distance it traveled!
	A double off the fence!

Yoko Coach: Okay...  he's a true genius.

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