Satou Hikaru, the transfer student from the United States, is actually the son of Satou Takuya, the eternal friend and Major League teammate of Daigo's father, Goro!
Right away, Hikaru asks Daigo about advice for joining a local baseball team, but being Daigo, being completely off-put by baseball, gives Hikaru a rude answer.
That evening, Daigo's mother, Kaoru, receives a request for help from the Dolphins' manager, Fujii: "We don't have enough players for the practice match this weekend, can we borrow Daigo?"
Apparently, three players 
have come down with the flu.
.يبدو أنّ ثلاثة لاعبين أصيبوا بالإنفلونزا
Scheinbar wurden drei Spieler
durch die Grippewelle ausgeknockt.
Parece que tres de sus jugadores
tienen gripe.
Parece que tres jugadores
tienen la gripe.
Trois de ses joueurs
ont attrapé la grippe,
Dice che ha tre ragazzi fuori per l'influenza.
Aparentemente três
jogadores estão gripados.
У них трое заболели,
и теперь им не хватает игроков.