Episode 009

Change the Tide (流れの作り方, Nagare no Tsukurikata) is the ninth episode of the Tamayomi anime.

Synopsis
Yoshino is burdened by guilt when her big plan backfires and gets someone hurt. Does the team have what it takes to change the tide and stay in the tournament?

Summary
Kagemori pitcher gets riled up for copying her throws and prolonging the game and accidentally hits Ibuki with the ball. With Nozomi's hit, they manage to make a run. As they force Kagemori to not play their game, they manage to score six runs in the sixth inning. Yomi comes to bat and manages to make a hit. As she runs, she sees that Ibuki doesn't run and wonder why. Ibuki explains the game is over due to mercy rule as they are too far ahead of the opponent. Yomi is annoyed as she was supposed to pitch in the seventh inning, but Ibuki comforts her saying they won due to her hit.

They go back and continue practicing. They watch a video of Ryoyukan, who wins their match. Yoshino apologizes that due to making her copy the pitcher, she got hurt, but Ibuki says its fine and that she had fun today. The next day, Yomi gets congratulated by her classmates and she invites them to watch their next game as she will be pitching, but they don't want to see them getting crushed against Ryoyukan.

Ryoyukan gather and talk about their upcoming game with Shin Koshigaya. They comment they used to be good, but most left after the scandal and right now its composed on first years. Because of that, they don't have much data on them and have observed only one game from them. They see they didn't use their ace Yomi in that game and guess its probably because they wanted to hide her. Meanwhile, Yoshino decides the new batting order and places.

The next day, the game is about to start and they decide that Ryoyuken will hit second.

Characters

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