Worst to First: A Teen Baseball Miracle(2023)

Worst to First: A Teen Baseball Miracle is a Japanese drama series following Nagumo Shuuji, a social studies teacher at Etsuzan Senior High School in Mie Prefecture. A former university baseball player sidelined by injury, Shuuji reinvented himself as a sports trainer before returning to school at 32 to pursue his teaching dream. His quiet routine shifts when he's assigned to advise the school's struggling baseball club, which faces closure. Tasked with saving the program, Shuuji must inspire a group of underperforming athletes and prove that redemption and second chances are possible—both for them and for himself. The series blends sports drama with themes of perseverance and personal transformation.