It's Seido's practive game against Seiho, the beast from Aichi. Sawamura has a great first inning, striking out two batters. They're facing Seiho's ace Akashi, once hailed as the super rookie when he played at Koshien Stadium as a first-year. After an injury caused his form to deteriorate, he spent a year in obscurity. Now, he has returned armed with a muscular body and powerful pitches. The Sawamura-Okumura battery must cooperate to take on Seiho's machine-gun-like batting lineup.
They don't have any big sluggers 
like Sano from last year,
ليس لديهم ضاربون متباطئون
،كبار مثل سانو من السّنة الماضية
Sie haben keine heftigen Batter
wie Sano letztes Jahr,
Non hanno nessuno che batta cannonate 
come faceva Sano, l'anno scorso,
Eles não têm grandes rebatedores
como o Sano do ano passado,
У них нет игроков
 вроде Сано с прошлого года...