Lin Ye, an ordinary modern baseball enthusiast, accidentally traveled to Japan in 2012 and possessed the body of a "10,000-year substitute" high school student from a weak school in Tokyo. With a thin body and zero foundation, he even passed the ball crookedly. He became the laughing stock of the whole team when he first joined the team. During training, he hit his leg with a bat, got hit in the face when catching a fly ball, and was publicly mocked by the captain for "wasting the ball" even when he sneaked in extra practice.
But he brought his understanding of modern baseball tactics and his persistence to his love: he used mineral water bottles to practice strength in winter training, and relied on old notes + MLB batting theory to improve his movements. He missed a fly ball in the prefectural competition, was suppressed by a 150km/h fireball at Koshien, was demoted to the second team due to injury during the NPB period, and was booed by fans at his MLB debut, "go back to Japan"... He fell to the bottom again and again, and he climbed up again and again: training in the infield, studying pitching habits until the early morning, and still holding on to the bat after a year of rehabilitation after a serious knee injury.
From a high school substitute to a dark horse in Koshien, from an NPB-trained player to a "Japan No. 1" Champion, to a bye home run hero in the MLB World Series - in his nine-inning life, he used the bruises of countless failures to break away from his own legendary home court. When he finally retired at the age of 40, the Yankees raised his No. 18 Jersey, and he turned back to the field of Sakuragaoka High School. Looking at the new batch of substitute teenagers, he remembered himself crying in the equipment room, and handed over the bat with a smile.
