Catch Me at the Ballpark!

• Ja Kanji — ボールパークでつかまえて！ • Ja Romaji — Bōrupāku de Tsukamaete! • Genre — Comedy, sports

• Type — manga • Author — Tatsurō Suga • Publisher — Kodansha • Imprint — Morning KC • Magazine — Morning • First — September 3, 2020 • Volumes — 19

• Type — TV Series • Director — Jun'ichi Kitamura • Writer — Shigeru Murakoshi • Music — Monaca • Studio — EMT Squared • Licensee — Crunchyroll • Network — TXN (TV Tokyo), AT-X, BS NTV • First — April 2, 2025 • Last — June 18, 2025 • Episodes — 12

• Portal — yes Catch Me at 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 aired from April to June 2025.

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 gyaru beer vendor girl named Ruriko. After he becomes her first regular customer, they slowly develop a friendship with each encounter.

• Ruriko • Fairouz Ai • A beer vendor girl who works for Yuuhi Beer at Chiba MotorSuns Stadium. She is a gyaru who has a snaggletooth. While she does not know a lot about baseball, she still enjoys her job. • Kōtarō Murata • Satoshi Inomata • An office worker who is a fan of the Chiba MotorSuns. He visits the ballpark to take his mind off the stress from work. He becomes Ruriko's first regular customer.

• Aona • Ikumi Hasegawa • A fellow vendor girl and colleague of Ruriko's. She retires alongside her boyfriend Omatsu to follow her dream as a teacher. • Kokoro • Momoko Seto • A fellow vendor girl and colleague of Ruriko's. • Sara • Mayu Sagara • A fellow vendor girl and colleague of Ruriko's. She is the youngest of the group as she is in high school. • Kohinata • Maaya Uchida • A fellow vendor girl and colleague of Ruriko's. She is the oldest of the group. • Kazuki Omatsu • Satoshi Tanaka • A checker of the vendor girls. He's currently dating Aona and quietly retires on the same day as her. • Nakaizumi • Yōji Ueda • A leader of the vendor girls' checkers.

• Kojiro Takino • Hiroki Tōchi • A veteran right fielder for the MotorSuns and Yuki's husband and eventual father of their child. He was close to Mitsuteru Tsubaki, a former MotorSuns player, with the two being called the Double-T Duo. • Dennis Young • Kentaro Tone • An American slugger from Chicago who is the third base and cleanup hitter for the MotorSuns. He develops a crush on Ruriko. • Anthony Bryan • Kō Bonkobara • An American player who is the designated hitter of the MotorSuns. He is married to a Japanese woman and they have opened a Puerto Rican restaurant in Tokyo. • Reto Mitsui • Kazuhiro Nakaya • A starting pitcher for the MotorSuns and Kisa's boyfriend. • Kazuma Shishio • Chiaki Kobayashi • The talented and popular shortstop and leadoff hitter for the MotorSuns. • Ken Nokogirimiya • Jun Fukuyama • Left fielder for the MotorSuns. • Wataru Ichinomiya • Daiki Yamashita • A second baseman for the MotorSuns. • Hisanori Kawamatsu • Takeo Yuusuke • The catcher for the MotorSuns. • Hiroshi Nanami • Ken Mizukoshi • The closer for the MotorSuns.

• Sun-Shiro • The team's mascot in the form of a salamander. He wears uniform number 346, the individual digits sound like his name when read aloud in Japanese. He is later revealed to be the other half of the Double-T Duo, Mitsuteru Tsubaki. • Nagisa Satō • Kiyono Yasuno • The MotorSuns' PA announcer. She has a crush on Nokogiriyama, whom she teases when she announces the lineups. • Marie Mori • Hitomi Nabatame • A 40-year-old cook for the MotorSuns who likes to dote on the younger players. • Natsuno Yamada • Ayumi Mano • A young woman who works at Atsumori, a stall selling boxed meals in the ballpark. She develops a crush on Murata. • Atsumori no Tenchou • Reigo Yamaguchi • The manager for the food stall Yamada works at. • Ryuichi Igarashi • Jin Urayama • A veteran security guard at the ballpark. • Reiji Takimoto • Chiharu Sawashiro • A new security guard at the ballpark. Igarashi helped him when he was lost at the ballpark back when he was 5 years old. • Yuki Takino • Rika Tachibana • A local television announcer who is Kojiro's wife. • Kisa Kondō • Wakana Kuramochi • Mitsui's girlfriend who supports him from the stands. • Hotaru Shimizu • Atsuki Nakamura • Murata's co-worker who is also knowledgeable about baseball. • Miku • Akari Yura • A little girl whose family regularly comes to MotorSuns games. • Miku's mother • Mami Fujita • A woman who regularly comes to MotorSuns games with her family. • Miku no chichi • Kentarō Kumagai • A man who regularly comes to MotorSuns games with his family. • Fujinami • Kento Shiraishi • One of three boisterous men, alongside Hige and Gori, who visit the ballpark trying to hit on women. • Hige • Kazumasu Fukagawa • One of three boisterous men, alongside Fujinami and Gori, who visit the ballpark trying to hit on women. • Gori • Takayuki Nakatsukasa • One of three boisterous men, alongside Fujinami and Hige, who visit the ballpark trying to hit on women.

Written and illustrated by Tatsurō Suga, Catch Me at the Ballpark! began serialization in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Morning on September 3, 2020. Its chapters have been compiled into nineteen tankōbon volumes as of April 2026.

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 GENIC, 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.