Slugger (episode)

"Slugger" is the thirty-seventh episode of Lilo & Stitch: The Series. It aired on January 26, 2004.

Plot
Lilo's baseball team loses to Mertle's team due to Pleakley's lack of confidence. Later, Lilo and Mertle make a bet for another game, and that whoever wins the game will get the other player's personal items. Then a small, yellow, pterosaur-like experiment activates that is designed to deflect projectiles with his tail shaped like a baseball bat. Lilo decides to place him on their team in Pleakley's place, in hopes of beating Mertle's team. But to make matters worse, Mertle has placed Gantu on her team, who has promised to help her win the game with a bargain to achieve the experiment at the end. Mertle ends up changing things so they play basketball instead of baseball, but Pleakley saves the day as he turns out to be a champion player of a similar game on his homeworld.

Experiments mentioned

 * Yin
 * Yang
 * Richter
 * Kixx
 * Slugger
 * Splodyhead
 * Reuben

Trivia/Goofs

 * Moral: Always be a team player.
 * Reuben seems to be very good at playing checkers.
 * When Richter plays outfield and tries to put Mertle out, his butt is not colored in.
 * Splodyhead is not seen wearing socks until during the game rematch.
 * Despite Gantu claiming Slugger wasn't very strong, he was able to grasp a basketball pole and whack Gantu over a vast distance without any struggle, and another time he suspended Stitch in mid-flight, again without any struggle.
 * Pleakley revealed that he was a four-time world champion basketball player.