Personal Narrative: Curveball By Dane Kutnick

I ran as hard as I could and got a double. The next batter struck out and ended the

The junior right-hander continued to struggle in the second. He loaded the bases and Nathan Koslowski hit a grand slam to right field, giving the Dolphins a 5-0 advantage. After Dotson gave up and base hit to Dubrule and fell behind 2-0 on Fernandez, Mazey made a call to the bullpen, bringing in Isaiah Kearns. The freshman righty gave up two more runs before getting out of the inning.

Vera led off with an infield single. He went to second on Galusky’s bunt single. Sophomore third baseman Kyle Davis loaded the bases with a single to right field. Vera scored of freshman Darius Hill’s fly ball to center.

I mean, who else is going to make their 100th career homerun a grand-slam and pimp the hell out of it? And then hit another grand-slam a couple games later. No one except Bryce Harper, that’s who. Besides the home runs, and yes playing on the east coast helps, the fun side is what sets Harper apart.

Andrus has been much better in the second half, and last night he was spectacular. When things are going right some nights, they are going right, and last night was one of those nights. Andrus was dialed in from the beginning and he made highlight real play after highlight real play. In the top of the seventh inning, Andrus delivered with a single to right with the bases loaded, clearing the bases and breaking a 4-4 tie to make it 7-4. But Andrus wasn 't done there, as he found himself standing on third base with two away.

“Hit a homerun” I thought. The pitch was thrown, “Strike”called the umpire. My heart was racing because I really wanted to win this game. The pitcher threw the next pitch. “Strike”the umpire called again, I started getting a feeling that we were going to lose.

“Charlie was a tremendous left-handed hitter who was also able to bunt, steal a hundred bases a year, and cover center field as well as anyone before him or since…he was like Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Tris Speaker rolled into one.” -Buck O’Neil; "If Satch and I were pitching on the same team, we 'd clinch the pennant by the fourth of July and go fishing until World Series time." -Dizzy Dean; “One Time he hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit him sliding into second.” -Satchel

But when Rosnick uses those larger fingers to apply a little pressure to either side of the baseball, it causes it to dance across the plate. "When we saw that, it jumped out at us," Champe Coach Joe McDonald said. "And not in a bad way. We thought, what could we do with

As if almost in one body,under one mind, the entire team moves in sync the raiders create an effect that intimidates everyone by all moving at the same time. This was not a planned action it was just fate. The pitcher throws two strikes and he is one pitch away from the dream. The pitch is thrown… “STRIKE 3!!!! BALL GAME” yells the umpire and they have done it, the raiders have defeated dayton.

so I hit it far to right-center. It hit the fence but it didn’t go over so I ran. When I got to first base I kept going and my coach said go all the way so I ran all the way around and they overthrew it and I was safe. I hit a walk off inside the park home-run we won 6-5 .

It hit him square in the nose. He felt good about but then realized it was a bad idea. While throwing the pitch so hard, he threw out his arm. Joey was the best pitcher on his team and he knew they didn’t have a chance against this team without him pitching.

Eliza’s Memoir I play softball. It was All-Stars, and we were in first place at the moment. We had won three games, to London, Circleville, and another team whose name I can’t remember. It was the second to the last game, and our team was watching from some nice shade in the outfield (By the way, it was in the 90’s while we were there.

The Babe set a record for pitching 2,923 shutout innings (“Babe”). In 1920, he set a record of hitting fifty-four home runs; he set a new record of fifty-nine home runs, in 1921. Because of those home run records, he became the most feared batter. Babe used a 52 ounce bat, but today baseball players use bats that are only about 32-34 ounces (Match 33). Sadly, in 1925, Helen Ruth, Babe’s wife, died in a fire.

It was the last inning in our all-star game, and we were losing 10 to 8. Our team had 2 outs and we couldn’t get the third. Our pitcher was doing bad, throwing all balls, while all of us in the field were tired, ready to fall asleep at any moment. There goes another walk. They score again.

David Freese at the plate. Neftali Feliz on the mound. He throws the 1-2 pitch and... “Into right, well hit. Back at the wall, it’s off the wall.