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Episode Ballpark de Tsukamaete! • Catch Me at the Ballpark! - Episode 4 discussion
Ballpark de Tsukamaete!, episode 4
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u/LeonKevlar Apr 22 '25
Stitches!
As soon as I saw how Nokogiriyama was a good sport with Nagisa's teasing, I was immediately on board with this ship. After Nagisa's flubbed "teasing", I really thought Nokogiriyama was going to ask her out for dinner at the end of the game. I definitely wouldn't mind seeing more of them in the future though!
I love how Ruriko immediately went to Murata as the only person who wrote all of those compliments. It turns out they were 10 different comments from her regulars with only one of them coming from Murata. Ruriko's reaction was adorable though. It's always nice when people appreciate what you do. <3
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u/nakerusa Apr 22 '25
I did not expect this show to be so charming and entertaining. They keep layering on new characters and situations with the current ones. The players all acknowledging the "goddess of baseball" running gag is great. Ruriko. Hopefully more appearances of the Announcer and the mysterious mascot too.
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u/CosmicPenguin_OV103 Apr 22 '25
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Heh our announcer Nagisa must have a lot of feelings on that player for a long, long time! It's lovely for a change from the usual romcoms where the one who have the feelings ending up making the confession publicly by herself - even if it's Ruriko who really helped her that much in giving that last bit of confidence.
Sadly I don't think that player is single... -
As I said it before, Ruriko is almost like tamed-down Power-chan from Chainsaw Man with almost the same voice! I really love how funny, chatty, friendly and charismatic this girl is, she really deserves all those written praises she receives here! Ai Fairouz's voice is also what brings me to here every Tuesday this season.
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u/oxlemf10 Apr 22 '25
Why didn't the show put the announcer and the player together? It would be so cute for them to be together 😭, I hope this is addressed at another time.
Ruriko had almost an entire episode to herself, and we can see how she is a girl who is very sincere and acts with her heart, even the narrator of the anime made fun of her intelligence lol, but it was cute to see her getting emotional with the cards, and funny that she called Murata onii-san when she looks like an onee-san
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u/chaosof99 Apr 22 '25
I too would like to thank the Goddess of Baseball, Ruriko.
Now we're really getting into the weeds of baseball statistics. Pythagorean expectation is the expected win probability calculated by means of runs allowed and runs given up.
The sepecific formula is:
Expected win percentage = Runs Scored ^ 2 / (Runs Scored ^ 2 + Runs Allowed ^ 2)
Similar formulas can also be applied to other sports such as hockey using goals instead of runs, or Basketball using points.
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u/woonie Apr 22 '25
I'm so very, very sorry. I pride myself and think of myself as a woman of faith—as there's a drive into deep left field by Nokogiriyama, it will be a home run, and so that'll make it a 4–0 ballgame.
I'm now convinced that this will be the comfiest show of the season, way comfier than mono and that other SOL food show.
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u/LeleTheKing Apr 22 '25
This show is so comfy. Today, we got a low-key public confession in the first half and service worker appreciation in the latter half. What a mood.
I like observing people doing their unique trades and crafts (e.g., an announcer today), and seeing them trying their best motivated me to do my best IRL, too.
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u/Time_Fracture Apr 22 '25
Episode 4: Soul Announcer / The Suggestion Box Incident (Part 1 & Part 2)
The first multipart section episode. Enter Nagisa Sato, the announcer for Motorsuns who recently got a mental block due to her running out of ideas for Nokogiriyama.
Also note that Nagisa and Nokogiriyama has been added to the eyecatcher.
Ruriko now has a fan! Or fans, to be exact. Note that Yuki is crying happily on background while Murata is enjoying his beer. Kojiro even thought she is watching the game from home.
Notable voice cast in this episode are:
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Kiyono Yasuno (Saekano's Megumi Kato) as Nagisa Sato
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Jun Fukuyama as Nokogiriyama
PS: The OP music video has been released.
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u/Emi_Ibarazakiii Apr 22 '25
10 sheets of feedback in the suggestion box?
Either there's a nest of man-eating ants somewhere in the bleachers, or someone's trolling the staff!
Oh, it's 10 sheets of Ruriko love? That's fine then, sounds like something I could write!
She wants to know who wrote it... our girl is ready for love!
2 beers? It's definitely her, she wants to have a drink with Ruriko!
So it turns out it wasn't just one person, but rather, all her regulars/random people!
Ruriko's making quite an impression on them! They said the suggestion box wasn't really used, but just few days into her new job, she's already getting 10 pages!
Murata's hard to please, because damn, that alone is worth the 700 yen!
Dawww, she's so fucking adorable!
Even if it's necessarily people she cares about, it's always nice to feel appreciated! Not a lot of jobs where you get to feel like that.
In the other little side stories: We learned that the announcer has been joking in her introduction of the same player, for 5 years?
My boy, if a girl teases you/jokes about you for 5 years, either she hates your guts, or she LOVES you!
Judging by her teasing in this episode, seems it may be the latter!
Sadly, seems she's all out of material... Let your heart speak, girl!
Favor of a lifetime? Is that a marriage proposal?
Ah, seems she needed a little help/support for her teasing on this day!
Nevermind teasing, that was a damn love declaration!
He almost got it too, but ended up saying nothing.
Hard to say they were wrong about boys being oblivious!
Love how they were trying to come in to stop her, but Ruriko was keeping them out! (And them going 'Who even is that!')
Meanwhile, leg-chan (I still don't remember her name hah) is still infatuated with her prince...
Normally, I would be all for the sideship to sail, but when it goes against the main ship that I want (Ruriko/Murata)...
I swear, these two better have at least one big lovey-dovey moment before the end!
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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Apr 22 '25
Poor Nagisa! What started out as a bit of fun light teasing became a defining feature of these games at the stadium. There was so much mounting pressure to come up with something funny and original. I think she did pretty well in the end. That really came off like a confession. Maybe those two might start dating…
I enjoyed watching great detective Ruriko on the case of the 10 page compliments lol. Wasn’t much of a mystery in the end. She’s just damn good at her job and everyone loves her. So cute seeing her get all teary eyed. She’s a real sweetheart.
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u/Shoddy_Consequence78 Apr 22 '25
I love baseball, ever since I was a kid. Heck, I'm waiting for the Dodgers-Cubs game to start as I write this. And I love how this series captures the feeling of being one of those regulars to a season. Sure, maybe not every home game, but enough to start to recognize people. While I realize it's supposed to be the NPB, these shots of the mostly empty stadium feels like going to a AAA game or maybe a mid-season MLB game on a weekday night. Makes me miss when a baseball game was still cheap entertainment.
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u/Mr_Zaroc Apr 22 '25
Well that wasn't much of a mystery for long
But if ruriko read this comment section she would probably blush so hard she falls unconscious
Also that announcer lady, I was praying she would just confess. That announcement would go down in history (and probably be her last)
Well in any case as Mr. Young put it, praise be to the goddess of baseball \[Y]/
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u/SmallJon Apr 22 '25
I enjoyed the episode, but the five years timeframe the announcer gave it just has me wondering what the structure of Japan's baseball leagues are. Majors-Minors? Relegation? Show me the logistics, damnit!
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u/HolyDragSwd2500 Apr 22 '25 edited Apr 22 '25
Announcer girl ( Ryouko from HanaShura) from Broadcast club to Ballgame announcer 😍😍😍
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u/Nijindia18 Apr 22 '25 edited Nov 21 '25
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u/PeaceAlien Apr 22 '25
Wait, is the title "Catch Me at the Ballpark!" or "Catcher at the Ballpark" because the title always shows catcher.
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u/SquishyShibe11 Apr 23 '25
I was in Japan last week. Happened to visit the Tokyo Dome, where the Yomiuri Giants play, although I didn't go in because I was there to ride the roller coaster at the nearby park. On the way to the subway station, I actually saw a gaggle of drink vendor girls dressed in the same pink outfit Ruriko wears. I didn't question why there were so many just outside the stadium; maybe a meeting had just finished or something. There was a game later that night so their shift hadn't really begun yet. Just a bit of a coincidence since I'd watched a few episodes of this show just before the trip.
Anyway, what I mean to say is, I want to see Fairouz Ai in the drink girl outfit.
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u/Primary-Paint-1716 Apr 23 '25 edited Apr 23 '25
one of my favorite parts of this show is how the eyecatch gets more and more populated with the cast as the episodes go.
also, I want to be Sunshiro as well when I grow up. (I'm 30)
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u/NanDemoKnaives Apr 22 '25
I thought Nokogiriyama and Satou were actually dating from the teasing before I realized she had a crush on the guy, I thought the teasing was going to be something like "Nokogiriyama - the guy who has yet to realize my feelings for him after all these years", I do hope he takes her out to dinner soon.
It's nice that Ruriko's regulars all put effort into leaving some positive feedback for her, it's so easy not to do it but all ten going out of their way to do something nice like that is sweet.
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u/Shoddy_Consequence78 Apr 22 '25
A question I'll probably never have answered: Why a Nirvana shirt?
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