Tarou Yamada, a high‑schooler, seeks to distance himself from his history as a baseball athlete following a crushing defeat by an elite squad. Even though the new school he enrolls in has no baseball program, Yamada runs into the same adversaries from that pivotal match where he suffered his biggest setback. Confused about why those former rivals now attend the same campus, Yamada questions whether he can ever let go of his love for the game.
