oneouts

 One outs begins when Hiromichi Kojima, the star batter of the fictional Lycaons in Japan's League, heads to the southern Japanese of Okinawa to train and bring himself out of a slump. There, he meet Tōa Tokuchi, a 134-kmph (83 miles per hour) pitcher and the undisputed king of a gambling form of baseball called "One Out." At Kojima's urging, Tokuchi signs up with the Lycaons under an unusual contract: he gets 5,000,000 yen (about US$46,000) for every out he pitches, but loses 50,000,000 yen (US$460,000) for every point he gives up. Tōa Tokuchi is a professional gambler and a baseball player in one outs game.