Nine

Just before entering Seishuu High School track star Katsuya Niimi and judo champion Susumu Karasawa see a girl crying as the school loses a baseball game The boys decide to join the team and improve it in order to make her smile The girl turns out to be Yuri Nakao daughter of the baseball coach and they learn the baseball team will be shut down if it doesnt start winning The series follows the three as well as pitcher Eiji Kurahashi as Niimi and Karasawa learn about baseball and what it means to be one of nine players on a team as they work together through high school make it to Koushien