Bonda Natsunosuke is an 18 million yen-a-year middle relief pitcher for the Jingu Spiders. Highly conscious of his li...

Bonda's coach has noticed a fatal flaw in his pitching style: He can only strike out players who make less money than...

Tokunaga decides to set a quota for his friends from Yamanashi Prefecture: within the next four games, Ohno needs to ...

Bonda must deal with a rematch against 41-year-old superstar Doterai, whom Bonda took out of the game the year before...

A manga artist visits the stadium, hoping to use Bonda's life as reference for a baseball manga. However, when Bonda ...

While out on the town one night, Bonda runs into Sekiya, a hard-partying player who makes ten times Bonda's own salar...

Tohko, a 32-year-old catcher who spends most of his time in the minors, is brought up briefly to the majors. His old ...

Japanese pro baseball's strict foreign player quotas has been keeping left-handed pitcher Thomas in the minors, and n...

Batting practice pitcher and scorer Kuriki gives Natsunosuke advice about how to improve his pitch speed. While feari...

Natsunosuke hates Koshien Stadium, which physically shakes from the force of the Osaka Tempters' cheer squad. When he...

"Delinquent King" Haratake is a popular middle relief pitcher for the Setouchi Carnabeats known for taking forever be...

Natsunosuke has a crush on Yuki-chan, the part-timer at his favorite diner. She doesn't know he's a baseball player, ...