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Pulling out the Pokémon Base Pepper!

SM028   EP967 熱闘ポケベース！ねらえ逆転ホームラン！！ The Fierce Pokébase Match! Aim for a Home Run to Turn the Tide!!

First broadcast Japan May 25, 2017 United States August 26, 2017

English themes Opening Under The Alolan Sun Ending

Japanese themes Opening アローラ!! Ending ポーズ

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 藤咲淳一 Jun'ichi Fujisaku Storyboard 浅田裕二 Yūji Asada Assistant director 小柴純弥 Junya Koshiba Animation director 村田理 Osamu Murata No additional credits are available at this time.

Screenshots on Filb.de Preview thread on BMGf Closed Original review thread on BMGf

Pulling out the Pokémon Base Pepper! (Japanese: 熱闘ポケベース！ねらえ逆転ホームラン！！ The Fierce Pokébase Match! Aim for a Home Run to Turn the Tide!!) is the 28th episode of the Sun & Moon series, and the 967th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on May 25, 2017 and is scheduled to air in the United States on August 26, 2017.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Plot

This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it.

Ash and his friends are ecstatic when the famous Pokébase player and Pokémon School graduate 'Olu'olu comes to umpire a class game of Pokébase.

Major events

For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the history page.

Debuts

Pokémon debuts

Characters

Humans

Dare da?

• Ash
• Lana
• Kiawe
• Lillie
• Sophocles
• Mallow
• Jessie
• James
• Professor Kukui
• Samson Oak
• ʻOluʻolu

Pokémon

Who's That Pokémon?: Snorlax (Japan)

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Rotom (Rotom Pokédex)
• Rowlet (Ash's)
• Rockruff (Ash's)
• Litten (Ash's)
• Popplio (Lana's)
• Turtonator (Kiawe's)
• Vulpix (Lillie's; Alola Form; Snowy)
• Togedemaru (Sophocles's)
• Steenee (Mallow's)
• Mimikyu (Jessie's)
• Mareanie (James's)
• Komala (Samson Oak's)
• Snorlax (ʻOluʻolu's)
• Bewear (anime)
• Scyther
• Electabuzz (on television)
• Gyarados (on television)
• Exeggutor (Alola Form; on television)
• Magikarp (×6; on television)
• Oricorio (Pom-Pom Style; ×3)

Trivia

• Poké Problem: What sport will appear in today's episode?
  • Host: Professor Kukui
  • Choices: PokéSoccer, PokéRugby, PokéBase, PokéPingPong
  • Answer: PokéBase
• The Electabuzz that appears on the television in this episode has the number "125" on its uniform, which is Electabuzz's number in the National Pokédex.
• Kiawe and Ash narrate the preview for the next episode.
• James breaks the fourth wall in this episode when he explains about the ball that Meowth is about to throw. ʻOluʻolu also breaks the fourth wall when he splits the two sides of the screen apart when Jessie was getting angry with Ash, his classmates and some of their Pokémon.
• Rotom narrates the ending of this episode instead of the narrator. However, the narrator narrates the beginning of this episode.
• The contraption that Meowth wears on his body during a flashback to his training is a reference to the series Star of the Giants, where the main character wore a similar contraption on his body, in order to straighten out his arms, making him better at playing baseball.

Errors

• When Ash and his classmates and some of their Pokémon celebrate their victory over Team Rocket, the cap on Snowy is missing.
• When Jessie asks 'Olu'olu for his autograph, her nose is missing.

Dub edits

In other languages

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