Due to Watt's injury the Hornets make some pitching changes. Goro is made the closer and Watts is moved to the bullpen. The hornets manage to take 2 from the Coyotes and tie the division lead, but Goro begins to have numbness occur in his hand and gets it looked into. He learns he has poor circulation that could affect his entire pitching career if he doesn't have surgery to fix it. Goro decides to hide it from the Hornets, but what will be the end result? Meanwhile both Chicago and the Texas Raiders qulify for the playoffs in the West, meaning Goro's two biggest rivals could be awaiting him in the World Series if things go right.
Elenco: Shoutarou Morikubo , Masakazu Morita , Noriko Hidaka , Junko Noda , Fuyuka Ono , Mitsuki Saiga , Shunsuke Sakuya , Kouji Ochiai , Yuko Sasamoto , Daisuke Namikawa , Romi Park , Rie Kugimiya , Kaoru Sasajima , Takao Ishii .