# Ballpark de Tsukamaete!

Ballpark de Tsukamaete! (Japanese: ボールパークでつかまえて！, Hepburn: Bōrupāku de Tsukamaete!, lit. 'The Catcher in the Ballpark!') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsurō Suga. It began serialization in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning in September 2020. An anime television series adaptation produced by EMT Squared is set to premiere in April 2025.

## Characters
### Ruriko (ルリコ)

    Voiced by: Fairouz Ai

### Murata (村田)

    Voiced by: Satoshi Inomata

### Aona (アオナ)

    Voiced by: Ikumi Hasegawa

### Omatsu (大松)

    Voiced by: Satoshi Tanaka

### Nakaizumi (中泉)

    Voiced by: Yōji Ueda

### Kano Yamada (山田夏乃, Yamada Kano)

    Voiced by: Ayumi Mano

### Kokoro (こころ)

    Voiced by: Momoko Seto

### Ryuichi Igarashi (五十嵐 龍一, Igarashi Ryūichi)

    Voiced by: Jin Urayama

### Takimoto (滝本)

    Voiced by: Chiharu Sawashiro

### Kojiro (コジロー, Kojirō)

    Voiced by: Hiroki Tōchi

### Yuki Takino (滝野ユキ, Takino Yuki)

    Voiced by: Rika Tachibana

### Dennis Young (デニス・ヤング, Denisu Yangu)

    Voiced by: Kentaro Tone

### Brian (ブライアン, Buraian)

    Voiced by: Kō Bonkobara

### Sara (サラ)

    Voiced by: Mayu Sagara

### Retto Mitsui (三井烈斗, Mitsui Retto)

    Voiced by: Kazuhiro Nakaya

### Kisa Kondō (近藤キサ, Kondō Kisa)

    Voiced by: Wakana Kuramochi

### Nagisa Satō (佐藤なぎさ, Satō Nagisa)

    Voiced by: Kiyono Yasuno

### Hotaru Shimizu (清水ほたる, Shimizu Hotaru)

    Voiced by: Atsuki Nakamura

### Kohinata (こひなた)

    Voiced by: Maaya Uchida

### Miku (ミク)

    Voiced by: Akari Yura

### Miku's mother (ミクの母, Miku no haha)

    Voiced by: Mami Fujita

### Miku's father (ミクの父, Miku no chichi)

    Voiced by: Kentarō Kumagai

### Kazuma Shishio (獅子尾一磨, Shishio Kazuma)

    Voiced by: Chiaki Kobayashi

## Media
### Manga

Written and illustrated by Tatsurō Suga, Ballpark de Tsukamaete! began serialization in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning on September 3, 2020. Its chapters have been compiled into fifteen tankōbon volumes as of November 2024.
| No. | Release date | ISBN |
| 1 | January 23, 2021 | 978-4-06-521917-1 |
| 2 | April 23, 2021 | 978-4-06-522806-7 |
| 3 | July 20, 2021 | 978-4-06-524045-8 |
| 4 | October 21, 2021 | 978-4-06-525129-4 |
| 5 | January 21, 2022 | 978-4-06-526526-0 |
| 6 | April 21, 2022 | 978-4-06-527395-1 |
| 7 | July 22, 2022 | 978-4-06-528462-9 |
| 8 | October 21, 2022 | 978-4-06-529529-8 |
| 9 | January 23, 2023 | 978-4-06-530483-9 |
| 10 | June 22, 2023 | 978-4-06-532027-3 |
| 11 | September 22, 2023 | 978-4-06-532972-6 |
| 12 | January 23, 2024 | 978-4-06-534353-1 |
| 13 | April 23, 2024 | 978-4-06-535327-1 |
| 14 | July 23, 2024 | 978-4-06-536212-9 |
| 15 | November 21, 2024 | 978-4-06-537585-3 |
| 16 | March 21, 2025 | 978-4-06-538845-7 |

### Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced on November 14, 2024. The series is produced by EMT Squared and directed by Jun'ichi Kitamura, with series composition by Shigeru Murakoshi, character designs by Fumio Iida, and music composed by Monaca. It is set to premiere on April 2, 2025 on TV Tokyo and its affiliates and AT-X. The opening theme song is "Hurray!!" performed by GENIC [ja]. Crunchyroll licensed the series.

## Reception

By January 2024, the series had over 200,000 copies in circulation.