Catch Me at the Ballpark!


Catch Me at the Ballpark! is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsurō Suga. It began serialization in Kodansha's manga magazine Morning in September 2020. An anime television series adaptation produced by EMT Squared aired from April to June 2025.

Plot

Murata is an office worker who regularly visits Chiba MotorSuns Stadium to take his mind off the stress from work. One day, he meets a beer vendor girl named Ruriko. After he becomes her first regular customer, they slowly develop a friendship with each encounter.

Characters

Main

;Ruriko
;Kōtarō Murata

Vendors

;Aona
;Kokoro
;Sara
;Kohinata
;Kazuki Omatsu
;Nakaizumi

Chiba MotorSuns

;Kojiro Takino
;Dennis Young
;Anthony Bryan
;Reto Mitsui
;Kazuma Shishio
;Ken Nokogirimiya
;Wataru Ichinomiya
;Hisanori Kawamatsu
;Hiroshi Nanami

Others

;Sun-Shiro
;Nagisa Satō
;Marie Mori
;Natsuno Yamada
;Atsumori's Manager
;Ryuichi Igarashi
;Reiji Takimoto
;Yuki Takino
;Kisa Kondō
;Hotaru Shimizu
;Miku
;Miku's mother
;Miku's father
;Fujinami
;Hige
;Gori

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Tatsurō Suga, Catch Me at the Ballpark! began serialization in Kodansha's manga magazine Morning on September 3, 2020. Its chapters have been compiled into eighteen volumes as of November 2025.

Anime

An anime television series adaptation was announced on November 14, 2024. It was produced by EMT Squared and directed by Jun'ichi Kitamura, with series composition and screenplays by Shigeru Murakoshi, character designs by Fumio Iida, and music composed by Monaca. The series aired from April 2 to June 18, 2025, on TV Tokyo and its affiliates. The opening theme song is "Hurray!!", performed by, while the ending theme song is "Ballpark de Shake! Don't Shake!" by Fairouz Ai, Ikumi Hasegawa, Maaya Uchida, Mayu Sagara and Momoko Seto as their respective characters. Crunchyroll is streaming the series.

Reception

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