O.B. Benson knows that, as a gay baseball player, his only chance to keep from being shut out of the Major Leagues is to stay as far from the public eye as possible. His low profile is threatened when the team manager insists O.B. take part in a TV interview to help boost lagging fan support.<br><br>Avery Turner, TV reporter, is handsome, fit, and definitely pushes O.B.'s libido into high gear. He’s also out -- something O.B.'s situation doesn’t allow. And Avery believes in monogamous commitment -- something O.B. cannot identify with. But when Avery delivers a curveball to the catcher, O.B. doesn’t know how to handle it.<br><br>When O.B.'s interview is aired, he’s forced to evaluate his life of meaningless one night stands. Can O.B. and Avery work out their differences and build a winning team, or will O.B. strike out?

Major League Shutout

Neil Carter, huh? You better not be inviting him home for dinner!


He realized how stupid that thought was. He had no right to limit Avery’s sex life. O.B. got out of bed to join Avery in the shower.


The game hadn’t gone well. O.B. couldn’t concentrate during the pre-game strategy meeting. He’d kept having thoughts about the last two nights with Avery, the upcoming airing of his interview, the fact that he would be seeing Avery in the locker room after the game, and, most annoying of all, and much to O.B.’s surprise, the interview Avery would be doing with Neil. As a consequence, he’d misread a couple of batters, given the pitcher the wrong signals, and it had cost the Thunderbolts a couple of runs. They had won the game but O.B. came off the field and into the locker room disgruntled and frustrated, blaming himself for the near loss.


Chapter 18