Today’s excerpt is from Ancient
Rookie, a sports fantasy book. Chet
saves a game, but the Cardinals lose a starting pitcher. Enjoy and have a wonderful day.
m.j.
The
following day the Cardinals started a four-game series with the Cubs. During the series, the wheels started to fall
off. In the first game, they were
leading in the top of the sixth inning by a score of five to nothing, when
their ace pitcher suddenly gripped his elbow after throwing a pitch. He was immediately removed from the game,
only to find out in a few days his season was over. The game was nearly lost as the Cubs scored
in the sixth, seventh, and eight innings.
In the eight, rookie reliever Hugo Alvarez came in with one out and two
on base. He got one out on a force play
at second base, leaving runners at the corners (first and third). The next hitter doubled into the right field
corner.
Only
an excellent play by Coy Leech kept the tying run from scoring. With the tying run on third base and the
leading run on second base, Tommy looked at Buck, then shrugged as he went to
the mound. Chet had been warming up. He was summoned to get the last out of the
eighth. His first pitch was a called
strike on the inside corner above the waist at ninety-seven miles an hour. The next pitch was a ninety-four-mile-an-hour
sinker on the outside corner at the knees.
It was barely tipped foul by the batter.
Sergio
Mendez said to the hitter, “Boy, are you in trouble now,” just before the
113-an-hour fastball zipped past the batter for a called strike three at the
letters, with the fans chanting, “One-thirteen, one-thirteen.” In the ninth, Chet set the side down in order
with a ground out and two strikeouts.
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