half_empty

After a near death experience thanks to his own mother, Jake Hollander has an adverse reaction to people, baseball, and family. His feeling of abandonment is slowly lost thanks to his foster family, The Atkins. They take him in and change his mind about everything. He becomes more open, better at baseball, and craves for family. Slowly all wishes are granted. 

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The Hitting Zone

We warmed up in high spirits even if the stadium started to fill up and doing home team chants and cheers. Like Noah said, tune it out, so I put all my focus on warming up; taking every grounder and fly ball seriously.

Coach didn't officially tell us the batting order until we got back in the dugout, though he had already implied that we would have the same starters at Thursday. Just moved around a little.

"Jake as cleanup!" Noah slapped me on the back. "It's about time."

"It doesn't mean much. Just symbolic." Kyle said. "We all know that he's the cleanup no matter where he is in the lineup." Him and Mitchell had came back to the dugout and the other pitchers were getting ready to head to the bullpen.

V3 ch220 @ Servite HS (1)