The name of this week’s chapter. I feel like the title explains the chapter contents pretty obviously…?
Under cut is spoilers. I have no pictures today.
My favourite part of this chapter was probably Furuya’s flashback and his mother’s thoughts/tears at seeing him as part of the Seidou team.
Though I can’t help thinking, with this and with Zono’s flashback and so on, I really hope that if Seidou win this game (and they genuinely have to now, given the situation), that’s not going to be the end of Act II the way it ended Act I.
I felt bad for poor Yui since Mei’s not in a good mood and his pitching is pretty lethal at the moment.
Asou’s hair still weirds me out.
And Eijun is in to pitch next defence. But that was obvious, wasn’t it? I mean, the title of the chapter is, ‘baton’.
…We want to see them win, but we also want to see Koushien, Sensei.
Now of course we’re all geared up for the possibility of Eijun being switched in and holding the line till the end. Depending on what happens next…since, despite the quality of Mei’s last pitch in this chapter, Seidou could absolutely still score here.
I noticed some spoilers circulating saying that Furuya was struck out. I don’t know where that came from but it’s not true, at least not for this week.
The chapter ends with Furuya at bat. It’s one out, runners on 1st (Zono) and 2nd (Miyuki) with one strike and no balls. All to play for next chapter still, though a double play is obviously not off the table here if Furuya screws up.
Also, the chapter title, The Team I Admire (憧れのチーム）, is in relation to Inajitsu Captain, Fukui, who has a rather disturbing fan obsession with Inajitsu, rather than Zono. Although I’m sure Seidou are the team he admires too ;)
It may be wrong of me but I do wish this were one of those times Furuya scored an insane and unpredicted home run just at random and made the scoreline a lot more friendly. But I don’t see that happening, because Terajima-sensei likes to stretch out the pain.
