Christian N.

Teamwork

Crack  goes the bat as it smashed the baseball!

Sprinting, I ran over to catch the ball over the

left-center gap. I  got up from the ground and

felt like I had just ran a 5k marathon. My cleats

and body lifted the grass from its roots and I

could see the dirt underneath the field.   

“OWWW!” I screamed.

When I fell my body hit the ground like a rock

and my ankle went the opposite way under my body.

I started to worry.What if I don't make it

through the game ? I thought  to myself.

I sprinted from the other side of the field to

catch that ball.

Limping back to the dugout, I looked up and saw

all of our fans in the bleachers yelling my name in

joy. I had a  half smile on my face, all my

teammates gave me high fives for that awesome

catch I had.

I iced my ankle while I had time before I got up

at bat so that I would be ok. I was so excited  

after that catch.

I was ready to get up to  bat and smack that

ball off the end of my bat.I wanted to hit the

ball like Derek Jeter. I thought.

I stepped up to the plate and didn’t swing at

the first pitch because it was a ball.The next

pitch was my favorite pitch.I swung and hit a

hard ball right between first and second base,

now I was on first base.Now I was smiling like

I just won the lotto.Then  my teammate came

up to bat; I looked over at my coach to get my

sign.’’

Yes.’’I murmured to myself.

The pitch crossed the plate and boom I took off

and slid into second. Then I stole third too.

I was on fire.I thought to myself.’’Strike three.

’’I heard the umpire yell.After that strike out my

other two teammates struck out. Now we were in

the field.

I started to sweating bullets I wondered to

myself. What if they  walk it off.They have

done it before.I started to get really nervous.

As the umpire said.’’Last pitch pitcher.’’Before

they threw the first was so worried that I did

a very brief prayer which would hopefully help

us to win it I got  into my ready position.

As the pitcher threw the first pitch to the batter.

’’Strike on ’’.The Ump yelled.The first two batters

struck out and now it was the time to win it. Cole

threw the pitch to the batter,weakly the  batter

hit a ground ball right in front of the pitchers
mound.The ball was coming as slow as a sloth
because of the tall emerald grass.Cole picked
it up and threw it to first base.

’’Out!” the umpire screamed.

“LET’S GO!” my team shouted.

Running in I realized, How good my team worked

together with each and every one of us my team

had great teamwork?

Right then my mind drifted back to when the

opposing team was losing 10-0 and they came back

to beat us 12-11.We then had to win three

straight games to be in the real championship or

we were out.I remember how hard we had to work

to come back and beat them in three straight

games.We had to have good teamwork or else

we were out. None of us wanted to be out.

Just then, a hat hit me in the head one of my

teammates threw his hat up and it smacked me

right on the top of my head. Then I snapped

back into the real world.

After we won the game both teams had to line  

up as if we were saying the pledge but we were

getting pins for winning the district championship.

Our coach told us to not celebrate too hard until

the other team left he wanted us to be humble

about it.He also received this banner it read.

8-10 year old district 1 champions.’’We had

to run around the  field once with the banner

it our hand and the whole team had to hold it so

it was hard to actually get a hand on it. I

can’t believe we actually won the

district championship. I whispered to

myself.