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	 Volume 14
	  Chapter 3 (132)
	   What's That?

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(Ch. 3) What's That?

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Ump: Ball!

Coach: Please, no dead balls, Kunimi-kun!
	We have a game to play tomorrow!

Hiro: A scrimmage game?

Coach: Ha ha ha!

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Ump: Strike three, batter out!

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Hiro: Now my eye's getting used to it.

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Ump: Batter out!

Hiro: All right!
	Warming up complete.

Coach: Warming up...?

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Noda: You're coming pretty fast.

Hiro: Thanks to Kine, I only have to pitch four innings.

Noda: And we only get four innings to bat.
	With a two-run deficit.
	Consider the possibility of extra innings.

Teams: Mitakako
	Senkawa

Hiro: What about losing?

Noda: What's that?

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Koga: Ohtake.
	That home run?
	Forget about it.

PA: Up for Senkawa in the bottom of the sixth,
	Batting eighth, Ohtake-kun.

Sign: Ohtake

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Announcer: What incredible applause!
	Standing in the batter's box is Ohtake, who hit the first-ever out-of-the-park homerun at this stadium in his first at-bat.

Crowd: Ohtake!
	Ohtake!
	Ohtake!
	Ohtake!
	Ohtake!

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Crowd: Ohtake!
	Ohtake!
	Ohtake!
	Ohtake!

Ohtake: Argh!

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Koga: He didn't listen to me.
	Idiot.

Noda: He could have hit that one out of the park too, if he'd gotten it squarely.

Hiro: ...still,

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Ball: (plop)

Hiro: A home run's a home run.

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Announcer: Two consecutive homers!
	Ohtake follows up his towering blast with a pop-up to right that barely clears the fence in fair territory!

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Announcer: Ohtake Fumio, the terrifying,
	previously unknown first-year batting eighth for Senkawa...
	Steps on the plate!
	7-6,
	a one-run game!

Teams: Mitakako
	Senkawa

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Players: Whoa!
	What happened to Ohtake?!
	He's amazing!

Ohtake: It was just a pop-up.

Players: Jesus!
	All you have to do is touch the ball to get a homer?!
	That was such a crappy pitch!
	How'd you do it?!
	You're gonna be on the front page of tomorrow's paper.
	With a picture!

Ohtake: No way.

Noda: Sure you will.
	Your first one was already news.  This one just seals the deal.

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Hiro: Be sure to act friendlier than usual when they come to interview you.

Ohtake: What are you doing, Shima?!
	Keep your eye on the ball!
	One more run!
	Just get on base!

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