High school student Tarou Yamada wants to escape his past as a baseball player after a devastating loss against an elite team. Though the new school he attends has no record of the sport, Yamada reencounters the same foes from that fateful day where he experienced his greatest failure. Unsure of why his former opponents are now attending the same school, Yamada wonders if he will truly be able to move away from his passion for baseball. [Written by MAL Rewrite]