History Main / BaseballEpisode

* ''Franchise/PrettyCure''

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... at least coming from the United States, Japan, and certain parts of the Caribbean. Most other countries don't even care about this "baseball" thing. Other sports occasionally used include types of football such as soccer or American football, while the standard British or Australian equivalent would be a UsefulNotes/{{Cricket}} or [[UsefulNotes/RugbyUnion rugby]] episode.

* Episode 4 of ''Anime/AngelBeats''.
** And episode 4 of ''Anime/{{Charlotte}}'' as well, from the same creator.

* The first episode of ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}} ~After Story~'' centered on the characters playing baseball. It is based after a common normal ending of the original VisualNovel.

* In the ''Anime/ComicParty'' anime, characters formed two teams to play against ''each other''; the game was eventually called a tie due to some complicated exigent circumstances.

* ''Anime/{{Dorohedoro}}'' had a baseball arc with an extensive range of chicanery, including poisoned drinks, Fujita using magic to [[MundaneUtility hurl baseballs as 160/km speeds]], and and the sheer fact that [[LizardFolk Kaimain]], a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent reanimated]] [[spoiler: Matsumura]], and [[BigCreepyCrawlies Johnson]] were all on the same pitch!
* ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' episode 4 "Full Swing".

* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'': Involving World Baseball Classic.
* A short segment in ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''. May be a bit longer in the manga and sound novels.

* One of the ''Manga/OnePiece'' movies opens with a short featuring the crew playing baseball against some villains, complete with Zoro wielding three bats. In another short, they play soccer.

* ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'' has a whole episode dedicated to Baseball, which picks up from a ''Main/ToBeContinued'' ''Main/WHAMEpisode'' involving the Sextuplets moving out and getting jobs, but by the next episode they play baseball in space and the plot of the last episode is no longer relevant. What's even more funny is that this episode is the season finale.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' has a baseball FanGirl named Casey with whom Ash and the group meet up from time to time. She even has ADayInTheLimelight episode in the ''Pokemon Chronicles'' spin-off series involving a Charizard that lost its firepower (literally) and a washed up baseball pitcher. Fittingly, Casey's first episode aired in Japan shortly before the beginning of that country's baseball championship, and first aired in America the day of Game 1 of the 2000 World Series.

* The ''Anime/SailorMoon: Sailor Stars'' (season 5) episode "The Power of a Shining Star! [=ChibiChibi's=] Transformation" had a softball game as its focus.

* ''Anime/SonicX''. Sonic and crew vs. [[GoKartingWithBowser Eggman's robot team]] with a [[PlotCoupon Chaos Emerald]] at stake. To be fair, Knuckles ''did'' tell them it was a dumb idea...
* ''Manga/SquidGirl'' Episode 10.3, where Ika joins Kiyomi's baseball team.

* ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': [[http://www.batoto.net/read/_/102243/tower-of-god_v2_ch15_by_the-company Love vs Viole with Love's baseball theme attacks.]]

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' showed in one episode that the kids play baseball (card games may be SeriousBusiness, but at least they ''can'' apparently have other hobbies). Dr. Chronos ended up hit in the eye with a fly ball, but it didn't end there...
** There was also another episode where Judai was playing tennis in gym class (which he didn't like) and Chronos got hit in the eye again (clearly, Chronos has ''very'' bad luck with sports equipment). This led to Chronos punishing Judai by making him take tennis lessons from an Obelisk snob, which led to a duel over Asuka, who the guy had a crush on. (fortunately, like most opponents from the Obelisk Dorm, the guy was SmallNameBigEgo).

* The ComicBook/XMen have a long history of this (perhaps unsurprising given that the school is in New York). An X-Men baseball game will always start with the rule "no powers". And it will always be broken. They also played basketball once with similar results. And football (resulting in Xavier being tackled out of his wheelchair).

* The Young All-Stars played against the ComicBook/AllStarSquadron for charity.

* The Cullens, with Bella in tow, play in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. [[RecycledInSPACE With VAMPIRES]]

* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': "Switch Hitter"

* ''Series/DueSouth'': "Dr. Longball"
* ''Series/EarlyEdition'': "Take Me Out to the Ballgame"

* The Franchise/{{Super Mario|Bros}} 'verse deals with baseball in ''Mario Superstar Baseball'' and ''Mario Super Sluggers''.

* The ''[[VideoGame/LivePowerfulProBaseball Power Pro-kun Pocket]]'' series manages to invert this trope. They're baseball games with dating sim stories for building characters, but most of them come with a hidden mode that's a fantasy or sci-fi themed RPG that has nothing to do with the sport except for a customizable puppet that becomes your prize character for clearing the story. The only exceptions were ''Happiness Island'' in ''[[VideoGame/PowerProKunPocket6 6]]'', which was a standard baseball scenario; and ''Takeshima'' in ''[[VideoGame/PowerProKunPocket14 14]]'', which featured the sport as a table-top card game.
* ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh's [[VideoGame/WinnieThePoohsHomeRunDerby Home Run Derby]]''

* The latter half of ''Webcomic/WhenHeavenSpitsYouOut'' Part 2.

* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' did it in "Pinky at the Bat."

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]]'': Jimmy and the gang successfully cheated with science to make their Retroville team consisting of him and his friends, to win so utterly and remarkably they appear to be the greatest baseball players ever known, and end up catching attention overseas to stake it out in the World Championship in Japan. Unfortunately, Jimmy's underhanded secret is revealed and the team gives into morality, feeling they should rely on their own skills... which are ''severely'' lacking. The big game takes place offscreen. ''Mercifully'' so, as the Japan team completely ''[[CurbstompBattle thrashed]]'' Retroville.

* While WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries played hockey in nearly every episode (they were a professional hockey team, after all), "Mad Quacks Beyond Hockeydome" had the ducks kidnapped by an EvilOverlord from another galaxy and forced into a tournament of ''[[RecycledInSPACE space hockey]]'' where the losing team gets disintegrated.

* ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture'': Marty, Jules and Verne go back in time to save [=Pee Wee McFly's=] career as a baseballer.

* ''Series/TheMindyProject'' has “There’s No Crying in Softball” where the OB/GYNs play in an interdepartmental hospital softball tournament.

* Lucille Van Slyke's 1912 serial novel ''Eve's Other Children'' focuses on Syrian immigrant children and their families trying to get used to America. In "The Thing Called Play", nine-year-old Najeeb Badour is in a funk because the other boys don't really accept him. Tommy O'Brien wants to organize a sandlot baseball team, but his friends are either ignorant of the game or too young -- nobody can throw. Najeeb, however, is an expert at a related sport called ''tabeh'', where you throw a wooden ball through a hoop fixed at eye level. His friend Nazileh lets on to Tommy, and when Najeeb shows his skill, Tommy is ecstatic and screams "Oh, youse ''[[UsefulNotes/HistoricalPeopleToKnowInMLB Christy Mathewson]]!!!''" and proceeds to tell Najeeb everything about baseball. We don't see the game itself, but no doubt it's splendid. And what could be more American than that?

** In "Baseball's Best Ballplayer", after Dennis wins a baseball game, he becomes tired when he is assigned to put the equipment away. He falls asleep and has a dream where he is a famous baseball player who faces off against a team of [[CrankyNeighbor Mr. Wilsons]].
** In "The Old Ball Game", Dennis hides in Mr. Wilson's car during a game of hide and seek with Gina. Around this time, Mr. Wilson heads out to a baseball game, but he doesn't realize Dennis is in his car until he's halfway to the stadium. Not wanting to miss the game, he has no choice but to take Dennis along with him. At the game, [[ButtMonkey anything that can go wrong for Mr. Wilson does go wrong]]; he has to pay $20.00 for Dennis' seat, plus another $20.00 for the seat Dennis put the snacks he bought him in, he misses a great hit due to having to buy Dennis an ice cream, he [[BeeAfraid gets stung on the nose by a bee]] that lands on said ice cream when Dennis gives it to him, he accidentally tosses said ice cream into Lefty Malone's shirt, causing him to strike out as a result, and gets a black eye from him after the game ends due to Dennis telling Lefty the insult Mr. Wilson said to him earlier.

* In the ''Comic Party'' anime, characters formed two teams to play against ''each other''; the game was eventually called a tie due to some complicated exigent circumstances.

* While playing baseball out of nowhere is surprising in any series, it's double surprising in ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'', which is already about American football. However, this is one of the cases where it's justified; Banba used the baseball game as a way to train Kurita and the other Devil Bats for the upcoming game with the Hakushuu Dinosaurs. It wasn't the actual sport that was important either, they just needed to get used to playing sports inside a dome rather than outside, due to the difference in air pressure. A baseball dome was chosen because Hiruma had dirt on the night guards watching the place.

* ''Anime/SonicX''. Sonic and crew vs. [[GoKartingWithBowser Eggman's robot team]] with a [[PlotCoupon Chaos Emerald]] at stake. To be fair, Knuckles ''did'' tell them it was a dumb idea...
* ''Anime/SoraWoKakeruShoujo's'' ninth episode plucks up the entirety of its main cast and sets them in a modern day world that tells a baseball story instead of the colony warfare one that had been playing out up until then. QT powers are still present despite this.

* ''DarthWiki/{{Slugger Slackers}}'': In the Franchise/{{KGC Universe}}, there is a {{CrossOver}} that is one big baseball episode.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': “The Baseball Game” is a classic Single-A World Series BigGame story, with Bolt pressed into playing duty while serving as honorary team [[{{Mascot}} mascot]]. He scores the winning run as a pinch runner for an injured player, and later clinches victory when he pulls off a triple play manning second base despite lacking a glove and the ability to throw a baseball properly.

* * An episode of ''Series/{{Galactica 1980}}'' has a baseball game central to its plot.

* ''{{Series/Greek}}'': Season 3 episode ''Take Me Out'' revolves around an all-Greek baseball game.

* ''Series/{{Leverage}}''

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* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' did this several times, including most famously with WesternAnimation/BugsBunny in "WesternAnimation/BaseballBugs".

* From Warner Bros.: ''Porky's Baseball Broadcast, Boulevardier From The Bronx, Baseball Bugs'' and ''Gone Batty.''

* ''Series/Numb3rs'' story ''AnythingForCharity'' has Don being drafted by his boss to take part in a charity baseball game against other agencies.

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'': Involving World Baseball Classic.

* ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'' has an entire SpinOff manga series titled ''Manga/{{Dorabase}}'' which has a focus on baseball.

* ''Anime/HanaukyoMaidTai La Verite'' episode 6. The maid departments (security, medical, technology etc.) compete in a softball tournament to determine budget allocations.

* Lucille Van Slyke's 1912 serial novel ''Eve's Other Children'' focuses on Syrian immigrant children and their families trying to get used to America. In "The Thing Called Play", nine-year-old Najeeb Badour is in a funk because the other boys don't really accept him. Tommy O'Brien wants to organize a sandlot baseball team, but his friends are either ignorant of the game or too young -- nobody can throw. Najeeb, however, is an expert at a related sport called ''tabeh'', where you throw a wooden ball through a hoop fixed at eye level. His friend Nazileh lets on to Tommy, and when Najeeb shows his skill, Tommy is ecstatic and screams "Oh, youse ''[[Useful Notes/HistoricalPeopleToKnowInMLB Christy Mathewson]]!!!''" and proceeds to tell Najeeb everything about baseball. We don't see the game itself, but no doubt it's splendid. And what could be more American than that?

* Lucille Van Slyke's 1912 serial novel ''Eve's Other Children'' focuses on Syrian immigrant children and their families trying to get used to America. In "The Thing Called Play", nine-year-old Najeeb Badour is in a funk because the other boys don't really accept him. Tommy O'Brien wants to organize a sandlot baseball team, but his friends are either ignorant of the game or too young -- nobody can throw. Najeeb, however, is an expert at a related sport called ''tabeh'', where you throw a wooden ball through a hoop fixed at eye level. His friend Nazileh lets on to Tommy, and when Najeeb shows his skill, Tommy is ecstatic and screams "Oh, youse ''Christy Mathewson!!!''" and proceeds to tell Najeeb everything about baseball. We don't see the game itself, but no doubt it's splendid. And what could be more American than that?

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' had a few tv specials: "Little Big League" in which Fred and Barney competed against each other coaching Pebbles and Bam Bam's teams, and "Windup Wilma" in which Wilma becomes a baseball pitcher.

* The latter half of ''VisualNovel/WhenHeavenSpitsYouOut'' Part 2.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The WACs assigned to the USAAF intelligence office in Washington DC play a game against their male co-workers. The game gets derailed by an argument when Diana forgets to hold back her strength and obliterates a ball, with Steve quickly saying the ball was probably rotted through and flirtingly asking her if she fancies herself a Wonder Woman once the other men are too distracted by trying to figure out if its a foul ball.

* While WesternAnimation/TheMightyDucks played hockey in nearly every episode (they were a professional hockey team, after all), "Mad Quacks Beyond Hockeydome" had the ducks kidnapped by an EvilOverlord from another galaxy and forced into a tournament of ''[[RecycledInSPACE space hockey]]'' where the losing team gets disintegrated.

* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': Or baseball story in “The Baseball Game.” It's a classic Single-A World Series BigGame example, with Bolt pressed into playing duty while serving as honorary team [[{{Mascot}} mascot]]. He scores the winning run as a pinch runner for an injured player, and later clinches victory when he pulls off a triple play manning second base despite lacking a glove and the ability to throw a baseball properly.
** Also, Penny and Bolt attend baseball games during their book signing trip in “The Imaginary Letters.”
** Bolt misconstrues his father’s description of his girlfriend as a “[[ButterFace two-bagger]],” thinking this means she plays baseball.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius Jimmy Neutron]]'': Jimmy and the gang successfully cheated with science to make their Retroville team consisting of him and his friends, to win so utterly and remarkably they appear to be the greatest baseball players ever known, and end up catching attention overseas to stake it out in the World Championship in Japan. Unfortunately, Jimmy's underhanded secret is revealed and the team gives into morality, feeling they should rely on their own skills... which are ''severely'' lacking. The big game takes place offscreen- ''mercifully''- Japan completely ''[[CurbstompBattle thrashed]]'' Retroville.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Hit the Diamond", the Gems have to deal with a band of Ruby foot-soldiers from the Homeworld who have come looking for Peridot (who is hiding out in the old barn). Steven convinces them to settle things with a game of baseball. If they win, they can search the barn; if they lose, they have to go back to Homeworld.

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