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	 Volume 25
	  Chapter 4 (242)
	   Lucky Dogs

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(Ch. 4) Lucky Dogs

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Ohtake: You're the one who made me play baseball, you know.

Hirota: Your point?

Ohtake: I owe you one.
	For THAT only.

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Koga: Yes!
	If we hold them down this inning, we'll have the top of the lineup in the 10th...

Hiro: We're still batting with one out.

Koga: Oh geez,
	I forgot.
	Inoue!

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Inoue: Y-yes?!

Ump: Strike!
	Batter out!

Koga: Oops.

Hiro: "Oops"
	Pretty much sums it up.

Koga: Uh let's see,
	so in the 11th inning...

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Ump: Safe!

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Kine: Lucky dogs.

Scoreboard: Senkawa
	Eikyo

Hikari: The Koshien is inviting them,
	all over again...
	It's apologizing for their unlucky summer.

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Kine: If the Koshien really cared about that,
	there'd be a hell of a lot more schools in it.

Hikari: Hiro's a special case.
	He was born to pitch in the Koshien.

Kine: And guess what?
	There are a million guys like that in Japan!

Hikari: I only know one of them.

Kine: ...oh,
	fine.

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Ump: Strike three,
	change sides!

Noda: We were lucky.

Hiro: So are they.
	They get Hirota up in the bottom of the 9th.

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Line-up: 4 | Fukamachi
	6 | Mogi
	7 | Arai
	3 | Hirota
	9 | Miyakawa

Noda: He'd almost be a match for Hideo in sheer talent.

Hiro: Not just talent.
	His concentration today is Hideo-level too.

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Hirota: You should have left me out of the lineup.
	Those two runs were scored by my relatives.
	Relatives I snuck into Senkawa's team to tear it apart...
	It's like everything I did is coming back to hurt me, once I ruined my arm.
	Now, I'm nothing but a pestilence.

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Coach: A pestilence that we would be scoreless without.
	You'll just have to pay back what you owe.
	No matter how hard...
	it may prove to be.

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Ump: Out!

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Koga: They're pretty desperate to get on before Hirota.

Haruka: Hirota-kun is the only one they can rely on,
	in today's game.

Koga: Hmm.

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Batter: Damn!

Hirota: Nice swing.

PA: Batting fourth, the firstbaseman, Hirota-kun!

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