Moshidora — Season 1, Episode 5: Minami Abandons Traditional High School Baseball

Episode synopsis

As the team work on their strategy, designed to reduce the time the pitcher spends on the field and encourage defense, Minami learns Yuki is due to undergo surgery on the day of the exhibition match. It is revealed that Minami used to love baseball when she was little, but as she grew older, her hopes of becoming a professional baseball player were dashed. The exhibition match goes underway, with the team implimenting their new strategy to only aim for strikes. Whilst the match appears one-sided, the team notices their improvement as the game goes on. After managing to improve on defense, they start to impliment their no bunt strategy on offense which takes the other team by surprise. Despite losing the game, the team feels proud

About Moshidora

Minami joins her High School baseball team as a team manager after finding out that her best friend Yuuki is in the hospital and can't be a team manager any more. In order to try to fill in for Yuuki and to help out the team the best she can, she goes out to find a book on how to manage a baseball team. Unfortunately, she accidentally buys Peter Drucker's book called "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" which is actually about how to properly manage a business. Because she couldn't return the book, she decides to read it anyway and to try to apply the business management concepts to the baseball team so that way they can go on and win the Nationals.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Minami Meets
• E2Minami Ventures into Marketing
• E3Minami Tries to Specialise in Labour
• E4Minami Tackles Innovation
• E6Minami Meditates on Strategies and the Status Quo
• E7Minami Thinks About Results
• E8Minami Thinks About How Management Should Be
• E9Minami Loses Something Irreplaceable
• E10Minami Is Moved By Highschool Baseball