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	 Volume 16
	  Chapter 7 (156)
	   What's All This?

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(Ch. 7) What's All This?

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Shiroyama: Problem with your elbow?!
	Enough that you can't pitch?!

Hirota: If you want this to be my last game, I can pitch to the end.
	Let me rest in the outfield.
	If you need me back in a pinch, you can put me back at pitcher.

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Ump: Strike three, batter out!

Hirota: You're not going to say we can't beat a nameless first-time team without me, are you?

Shiroyama: Don't be conceited.

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Shiroyama: Hayashi, start warming up.

Hayashi: Yes, sir!

Shiroyama: Take a break, then.
	You can make it up in the Koshien.

Hirota: {Sorry, old man.
	I can't push myself too hard at this stage.
	Unlike you, I have a long life ahead of me.}

Announcers: Two outs, runner on second!
	Up now is the #7 hitter, Kan the catcher!
	Good name.
	Sounds like he can hit.

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Hiro: Oops.

Announcer: There it goes!
	It's a base hit!

Noda: Nice batting.
	Crap!

Announcer: The runner's rounding third!
	Shima turns to Sagawa, the cut-off man!

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Announcer: But he's not going to make it!
	Tie game!
	Ah.
	But Sagawa throws the ball to second.
	Kan is caught between first and second base!

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Ump: Out!

Announcer: A heads-up play by Sagawa, the shortstop.
	The inning is over!

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Announcer: But the score is now 1-1 after five innings.
	Eikyo Academy manages to tie it back up!

Teams: S
	E

Announcers: Uh-oh, what's this?
	Kan-kun is on the ground clutching his shoulder.
	Yes, he had a rather awkward fall, didn't he?

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Noda: Is he OK?

Hiro: He was the catcher.

Koga: One or two injuries is nothing.
	Their bench and our bench are completely,
	totally,
	dif...
	ferent sides of the field!  We're on the first base side and they're on the third base side.
	Ha ha ha!

Hiro: Don't mind him.

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Ogura: Please let me play.

Shiroyama: Go, Misawa.

Ogura: Coach!

Shiroyama: You're our last resort.
	Last last last resort.  (heh)

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Dad: Isn't this a nice hat?
	I got it from a very special little lady for my birthday.
	Who is,
	as it happens, one of my son's old friends.

Haruka: Amamiya-san?

Dad: Yes.
	She's always been the nicest and friendliest girl.
	Wish I coulda had a daughter like her.

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Dad: I envy you sir, I really do.
	How is a man to get his fix of bathroom peeping with no girls in the house?  (weep)

Koga: I have NO interest in such things!

Dad: What,
	really?!
	Well, be that as it may...
	My plans were to have Hikari-chan marry Hiro someday,
	so that she WOULD be my daughter.
	But ever since that Tachibana Hideo fella showed up,
	my idea only looks good on paper.
	He's a great kid.
	I hate to say it, but they're perfect for each other.
	Uh.

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Dad: What do you say, Haruka-chan?
	Why don't you settle for my Hiro...

Koga: BE QUIET!
	Are you trying to foster your leftover offspring on MY daughter?!

Haruka: Kunimi-kun is NOT a "leftover"!
	He's just as great as Tachibana Hideo is.

Koga: But look at his father.

Dad: (mm-hmm)

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Haruka: Kunimi-kun takes after his mother.

Dad: Uh, Haruka-chan?

PA: In for Ogasawara-kun,
	firstbaseman Miyakawa-kun, batting second.
	In for Kokubu-kun,
	thirdbaseman Sakamoto-kun, batting fifth.
	In for the injured Kan-kun,
	catcher Misawa-kun, batting seventh.
	In for Ohmura-kun,
	shortstop Motegi-kun, batting eighth.
	Replacing centerfielder Miura-kun in the lineup,
	pitcher Hayashi-kun, batting ninth.

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PA: And,
	moving from pitcher to centerfield, Hirota-kun.

Lineup: Eikyo
	4 Fukamachi
	3 Miyakawa
	7 Arai
	8 Hirota
	5 Sakamoto
	9 Suzuki
	2 Misawa
	6 Motegi
	1 Hayashi

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Announcer: Kuruma-san?

Nezu: They've turned into just another powerhouse team that I'm unfamiliar with.

PA: Leading off for Senkawa in the top of the sixth,
	batting first, the centerfielder, Kine-kun.

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Hiro: What's all this?

Hirota: {I'm counting on you, old man.
	It's your job to prepare the stage for me.}

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