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Updated: July 6, 2025
He will have ample time to move after the pitcher has begun his delivery and when the batter's attention is wholly occupied with that. If an out-curve is coming, he should be ready to move out, or if an in-curve, or fast, straight ball, he should be ready to step in.
Berne carefully stepped into the batter's box, as if he wanted to be certain to the breadth of a hair how close he was to the plate. He was there this time to watch the Rube pitch, to work him out, to see what was what. He crouched low, and it would have been extremely hard to guess what he was up to. His great play, however, was his ability to dump the ball and beat out the throw to first.
One more "bad break" of this kind and Wayland would receive the tie run as a present. And then one more -it would be the High School pitcher handing the only lost game of the season as a gift to the visitors! Dick braced himself supremely for the next man at bat. "Strike one!" It wasn't the batter's fault. A very imp had sat on the spitball that Prescott bowled in. "Strike two!"
Happily all went well, and in two or three minutes an audience of four trembling and well nigh panic stricken lads was sitting in the darkness, listening to Batter's ominous tale. "Joe waked me up a little while ago," he began, "an' said there was a strange boat, an' two men in it, down by the mouth of the run. I tole Joe ter stay an' watch our stuff.
"'Well, McGraw said, 'that's exactly what I want you to do. "So Murray went up to the plate to bunt. After he got to the batter's box, though, he backed out and looked over at McGraw again. "McGraw poked his elbow in my ribs. 'Look at that so-and-so, he said. 'He told me what he should do, and I told him what he should do, and now he's undecided. I'll bet he forgot from the bench to the plate.
Whiting improved his chance to take second, where he laughingly came to anchor, chaffing Cooper, who was making some very uncomplimentary remarks about himself. "Here we go! Here we go!" roared Larkins. "Now we score. On your toes, Whiting! Here's the boy to drive you home." Springer shivered suddenly as he saw the stocky, red-headed catcher of the visiting team step into the batter's box.
Callopy, the famous spiker, who had put many a player out of the game for weeks at a time, strode into the batter's place, and he, too, was not at the moment making any funny remarks. The Rube delivered a ball that all but hit Callopy fair on the head. It was the second narrow escape for him, and the roar he let out showed how he resented being threatened with a little of his own medicine.
Then, with Lander, the next batter, standing back, he sent two or three over the plate to Shackleton. "All right," he finally nodded. "Play!" called Kilgore. Jake Lander stepped into the batter's box and smashed the first ball pitched by Bart. He drove it whizzing past Hodge, who did not have time to touch it. Carson trapped it cleanly, scooped it up, and threw it to Higgins at first.
Sanger warmed up a bit by whipping a few to Larkins at first, while Copley was buckling on the body protector and adjusting the mask. Oakdale had put her second baseman, Jack Nelson, at the head of the batting order, and Jack did not delay the game by loafing on his way into the batter's box. "Get the first one, Sang!" barked Copley, squatting behind the plate and giving a signal.
And he never offered to hit one of the balls Wehying shot over. When Fuller had called the third strike Red hurried back to the door and disappeared. "Somethin' doin'," whispered Delaney. Lord Chesterfield Clammer paraded to the batter's box and, after gradually surveying the field, as if picking out the exact place he meant to drive the ball, he stepped to the plate.
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