Episode 005

Losing Streak (ススメ!! 泥沼連敗街道, Susume!! Doronuma Renpai Kaidō) is the fifth episode of the Tamayomi anime.

Synopsis
Hoping a training camp will fix some of their problems, the girls learn the hard way that there's no quick fix to becoming a winning team.

Summary
Kyouka Fujii announces that they are going to a training camp and she arranged games with Touwa and Oowashi High Schools. They need to prepare for the games and Yoshino also explains they have a little pitcher problem they need to address.

The camp starts and they start practicing. Yoshino calls each of them for an interview and takes their measurements. She explains that they only have one pitcher and if Yomi gets hurt or tired, no one can replace her, so after measuring all of them, she believes that Ibuki and Risa can be a substitute pitchers. Ibuki makes a pitch and it feels slow, but Tamaki states it kinda flows, so it may work. Risa pitch feels heavy and with power. Yoshino then decides they start also pitching practice everyday too. Yomi's pitches feel unpredictable and she explains that she usually aims at the batter's face. Yoshino then divides the face in 4 parts and asks her to aim at each corner and as she starts to throw better aimed pitches that Tamaki knows where to expect them. After a hard day at practice, they go eat, but Risa and Rei are missing. Rei finds Risa who still practice her swings. Rei thanks her for staying with her in the team, however Risa explains it was for selfish reasons and that they hardly talked before. Rei was being considered a talented athlete and after seeing her playing baseball, she decided she wanted to be in the same field as her. As they get inspired to do better, they overhear the other girls who were secretly listening and were getting hyped too.

Against Oowashi, they loose 9 to 4 with Risa and Ibuki pitching. And against Touwa they loose 3 to 1. With the training camp over, Kyouka tells the girl to take some time to study as mid-term exams are coming. Shiragiku starts to get more hits and Yoshino decides to more her up in the batting line.

Yoshino does some work with Kyouka and as she returns its already dark and sees Nozomi being the only one still practicing. Talking with her, Nozomi blames her about their loss as in her previous team she also couldn't hit when they had four bases loaded. Yoshino assures her no one is blaming her and everyone tries to improve and that the whole team is responsible, not just her. She tells her its the same for her previous team, otherwise they wouldn't make a promise to meet at the nationals. Yoshino then reveals that she was late today as she was with Kyouka and they gathered info on their next opponent and plans on winning by Nozomi hitting a cleanup for them.

Characters

 * Yomi Takeda
 * Tamaki Yamazaki
 * Ryou Kawasaki
 * Sumire Fujita
 * Yoshino Kawaguchi
 * Ibuki Kawaguchi
 * Risa Fujiwara
 * Rei Okada
 * Nozomi Takamura
 * Shiragiku Oomura
 * Kyouka Fujii