(baseball) backstop

cardboard (corrugated)

(baseball, softball) Synonym of 本塁打 (honruida, “home run”)

hit / (for lottery) win / be correct, be exactly right / be shone on by the sun, be warmed by heat, or blown on by wind / include or need (in the construction verb + ～には当たらない)

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

a net / Clipping of ネットワーク (nettowāku, “network”). / Clipping of インターネット (intānetto, “internet”); the net / a net profit / (of price or volume) the state of being net

(especially of viewers of a broadcast network) to connect within a network / (computing) to connect to the Internet

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)