Major Vol. 55 — Manga Raw / Buy Official

His first Triple-A season with the Batts over, Goro returns to Japan. He isn't chosen for the national team's World Cup training camp, but joins the Okinawa camp as a batting-practice pitcher. At the opening ceremony he walks straight up to major-leaguer Kojiro and challenges him: "When you feel like taking free batting practice, name me first." Squaring off against players who stand at the summit of the world game, Goro experiments relentlessly to prove his worth. The seeds of a new out pitch, the "gyro fork," begin to sprout in this volume opening the World Cup arc.