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.
I know how it feels to get tired out 
in the middle innings like that.
أعرف شعور التّعب في منتصف 
.الشّوط كهذا حقّ المعرفة
Ich kenne es.
Te entiendo.
Te entiendo.
Je te comprends…
So come ci si sente ad arrivare stanchi
già agli inning di mezzo.
Sei como é ficar cansado no
meio das entradas assim.
Я прекрасно понимаю,
 как утомляют средние иннинги.