"Well, through the six and a third, your father is perfect. No runs, no hits, no walks, no errors. He's struck out thirteen, only one guy's made decent contact. All hallows has scored two. so the score is two to zero. theres one out in the seventh. counts oh and two. sinker, right at the knees and a lollypop curve that the guy missed by a foot. i thought maybe your dad might waste a pitch in the dirt. but he came with the heat. he kicked the leg high, almost like our friend Marichal, and he brought in the fastball. i swear it must have been ninety. the guy takes a swing, catches the bottom of it with the Mchenry at short is calling him off. calling real loudly. except that he didn't get it, it bounced off his glove.(68)"
Scooters dad played baseball in high school. he could always throw 4 different pitches with good control but he never had a good fastball. Scooters dad had a team mate that had a good fastball but no other pitches. so Scooters dad showed him all he knew and he went to the pros for a year maybe two. anyway if you were 2 outs away from throwing a no hitter and the person who you helped missed the ball, how would you react?
if that were me i would probably think that he did it on purpose because he wanted t0 throw the no hitter. it just makes me think how you can be best friends with one person and something happens and all the sudden you are mad, and all you do now is try to find a way to get revenge. it turned out that the guy popped the ball up so high that the batter rounded the bases and scored. Scooters dad threw a no hitter but the score was 2-1. he never got any looks because all the scouts looked at was how fast there fastball was. it didn't matter how good he was he never had the chance. Scooter never knew his dad was that good at baseball until his grandpa told him. why would the author make the grandpa tell you instead the father who was the one who did this?
the book keeps getting better by the page. something about it just wants me to keep reading, the book it really good.
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this sounds like an interesting book. i can relate to how that kid feels. it's hard to know what to do when you're friend makes you mad and unfortunately sometimes it leads to revenge. it's cool though sounds like a good book.
So does this book have a story line or is it just about baseball games and the pitch count? So what about this book makes it a book that you actually want to read? What year does this book take place? This book sounds interesting, I really like books that have sports in them!
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