One Outs

One Outs
Cover of One Outs vol. 1
ワンナウツ (Wannautsu)
Genre	Psychological, Sports (Baseball)
Manga
Written by	Shinobu Kaitani
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Business Jump
Original run	1998 – 2006
Volumes	20
Manga
One Outs: The Suspicion of the All Star Game War
Written by	Shinobu Kaitani
Published by	Shueisha
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Business Jump
Original run	2008 – 2009
Volumes	1
Anime television series
Directed by	Yuzo Sato
Written by	Hideo Takayashiki
Music by	Akihiko Matsumoto
Studio	Madhouse
Original network	NTV
Original run	October 7, 2008 – March 31, 2009
Episodes	25 (List of episodes)

One Outs (Japanese: ワンナウツ, Hepburn: Wannautsu^?) is a Japanese baseball manga series by Shinobu Kaitani originally serialized in the seinen manga magazine Business Jump from 1998 to 2006. It was relaunched in Business Jump on October 1, 2008. An anime adaptation by Madhouse began airing on October 7, 2008.

The Saitama Lycaons is the weakest team in the Japanese league. Hiromichi Kojima, the Lycaons' star batter, forms a training camp in Okinawa to try for his last attempt at a championship after 21 years. When the minor league pitcher training with Kojima becomes injured, him and Kojima's trainer goes to look for a replacement, but run into trouble by participating in the "One Outs" game, where a pitcher and batter duel 1-on-1 with money on the line. The next day, Kojima arrives to avenge his teammates and meets Tōa Tokuchi, who appears to have no special pitching skills, but defeats Kojima easily and causes him to enter seclusion to re-evaluate himself as a professional player. Later, Tokuchi accepts a rematch after Kojima raised the stakes, proclaiming he will retire immediately if he loses, but he will "take" Tokuchi's right arm to make sure he will never gamble on baseball again if Tokuchi loses. This time, Tokuchi experiences his very first loss and offers Kojima his right arm to have it broken. Instead, Kojima tells him he never intended to break it, and asks Tokuchi to join the Lycaons and use his unique pitching ability to take the Lycaons to the championship. Soon, Tokuchi meets Saikawa, the greedy owner of the Lycaons who only cares about the team making a profit. Saikawa is reluctant to give Tokuchi any sort of significant salary due to his inexperience as a professional, but Tokuchi offers an unusual proposal. He proposes the 'One Outs contract', a performance-based pay where he gets 5,000,000 yen for every out he pitches, but loses ¥50,000,000 for every run he gives up.