Well first off I did not feel this deserved an 8, but neither a 7. I felt it was more of a 7.5 was good but had to round up. The story was a pretty good idea I feel. Most sports anime don't have enough romance in there, but I felt this one went a little overboard. They focused to much on the romance and not enough on the baseball which was a disappointing and a little weird. Also the ending was horrible. They needed to carry it on a bit in my opinion because it felt like it was justcut off and finished with no sense of closing.