Baseball Ninth Inning Poem

Walking up to the plate in the bottom of the ninth with no outs

One can feel the hecklers blackening his heart

Something is going through the batters head

It is something that is only understood in baseball

There is a rush on both sides of the field

The fans are standing on their feet

Then you can hear the pitch is coming

It is a fastball 101 MPH and the batter fouled it off

And then strike one and the crowd is silenced almost instantly

Then they realize that there all star hitter has 2 more strikes left

So the catcher throws the ball back to the pitcher

Even though the pitcher grabbed the momentum right out of the at bat

The batter feels he has something to prove

He smells the ball going over the ivy on the left field fence

So with the slow curveball coming he is way out front and hits a groundball to second base

But he hustles to first and the second baseman makes an error so he makes it safe

The next batter comes up and he gets down in the count 0 balls to 2 strikes

Next he hears the count to 3 balls to 2 strikes from the hecklers yells

And the patience of a good hitter gave him a walk

So they have runners on first and second with no outs

With the cleanup hitter coming up he is felling pretty confident

During the first pitch which was a ball the runners steal 2^nd and 3^rd base

Over the next 2 pitches the pitcher gets extremely wild throwing one of the pitches over the catchers head but the pitcher covered home and the 2 of them got the 1^st out

While all of that happened the runner on second base was able to get to third

So with the score all tied up at 0 with one out and the count 3 balls to 0 strikes the batter takes the pitch which was a strike to get the first strike of the at bat

So the count is 3 balls to 1 strike

On the following pitch the batter does a perfect suicide squeeze

And the run scores from third to win the game, the series, and the championship

After the game when asked about the bunt the batter said I would have rather swung away but I did it for the team

With ivy on the wall they celebrated with the champagne and goggles

It was a once in a lifetime deal for some, and it had already happened

But the joy on their` faces could be seen though and through