Fifth Inning

[ways_diamond]

Top of the Inning
Pitching: Grace
At Bat: Leela, Carlisle, Raph, and Duo
On the Field: The Enigmas (Castiel's Team)

Bottom of the Inning
Pitching: Duo
At Bat: Stitch, Grace, and Knox
On the Field: The Paradoxes (Carlisle's Team)

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Bottom of the Fifth

[ways_diamond]

Four and a half innings down, four and a half left to play.

The second half of the game starts now, with the Paradoxes taking their places on the field, and the Enigmas once again coming to bat.

Re: Bottom of the Fifth

[maxwellsdemon02]

Duo drags himself back up to the pitcher's mound. "IT WAS GOOD FOR ME," he hollers to Raph. "WAS IT GOOD FOR YOU?"

Re: Bottom of the Fifth

[maxwellsdemon02]

Pffft, whatever. It's only Stitch. And Raph's the one who's got Duck in the outfield.

Duo manfully does not flip him off, and turns back around.

Re: Bottom of the Fifth

[headed4hell]

Walking back from first, Grace lights up (as promised) and takes a long, showy drag on her cigarette.

She stares at Raph, then Duo. And laughs.

"I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BOYS, BUT IT WAS DAMN GOOD FOR ME!"

Re: Bottom of the Fifth

[ways_diamond]

One out and no one on base, as Stitch steps up to the plate.

Re: Bottom of the Fifth

[evil_koala_626]

Duo's pitching had been under extraterrestrial scrutiny throughout the bottom of the fourth. Stitch is a great many things, but one of them happens to be a quick study. And striking out in the bottom of the second appears to have given his attention span some serious motivation.

Stitch approaches the plate dragging the bat behind him before swinging it into position and regarding Duo through narrowed eyes.

Re: Bottom of the Fifth

[maxwellsdemon02]

...great. X's thousand yard stare was bad enough.

"I'm gonna have to skim the ground to get into your strike zone!" Duo calls to him. "Will someone get the batter a box to stand on?"

Re: Bottom of the Fifth

[evil_koala_626]

Stitch, predictably enough, snarls in response.

The hit connects with Duo's first pitch.

"HA!" exults Stitch, dropping to all fours and lunging off the plate for first.

And promptly sails over the foul line.

The alien pulls at his lower eyelids on the way back, muttering darkly.

Re: Bottom of the Fifth

[maxwellsdemon02]

Okay, this next pitch is definitely going over Stitch's head.

It would be in the strike zone if he was human sized? Er.

Re: Bottom of the Fifth

[evil_koala_626]

Okay, even he's not going to swing at that.

Stitch's snarl shifts, melting into a grin. He snickers.

Re: Bottom of the Fifth

[maxwellsdemon02]

Duo rolls his eyes. "Keep on feeling superior, shorty."

And now for something completely different: a nice floater. It starts high and ends low, and is deceptively slow.

(Bugs Bunny struck out a whole team with one of these. Duo is sadly not that kind of cartoon character.)

Re: Bottom of the Fifth

[evil_koala_626]

Once again Stitch's bat makes contact and shockingly enough, it is not a foul ball. Looks like a line drive to center field!

Re: Bottom of the Fifth

[ofthefamily]

It's faster than he'd imagined Stitch hitting.

(With anything other than his teeth, at least.)

Carlisle is positioned to catch it as soon as the arc comes closer to the ground, though. He promised himself he wouldn't jump to catch anything. Where's the challenge in that?

Re: Bottom of the Fifth

[evil_koala_626]

Stitch flings the bat aside and takes off for first, stumpy legs powering away amidst a great deal of huffing. He's making decent headway but his true speed lies outside bidpedal locomotion.