Ninth Inning

[ways_diamond]

Top of the Inning
Pitching: Arnold
At Bat: Booth, Lorne, Duck and Gaeta
On the Field: The Enigmas (Castiel's Team)

Bottom of the Inning
Pitching: Gaeta
At Bat: Arnold, Enzo, Castiel, and X-23
On the Field: The Paradoxes (Carlisle's Team)

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Top of the Ninth

[ways_diamond]

And here it is, at last, the ninth inning. Both teams have just three outs left.

The Paradoxes prepare to send their final batters to the plate, and the Enigmas take the field for the last time.

Re: Top of the Ninth

[reallyaduck]

Duck is totally gonna do better this time! She's super determined!

(And even if the ball hits her IN THE FACE, there is no way she's going to quack!)

She steps up to the plate, and holds her bat firmly horizontal in completely the wrong position. WITH GREAT DETERMINATION.

Re: Top of the Ninth

[ways_diamond]

Great determination can carry person, or a duck, or a person who is also a duck, a long way.

Though not, in this case, to first base.

One out, nobody on base, and the Paradoxes still trail by one run as Seeley Booth comes to bat.

Re: Top of the Ninth

[paladinsuitsyou]

Booth's feeling pretty confident by now. He's had two base hits, and he sees no reason he can't easily get a third. This game hasn't been so hard!

And with that, he hits a line drive toward third base.

Re: Top of the Ninth

[cutting_edgex23]

X could shift to get her body solidly behind the ball to catch it -- there's more than enough time for superhuman reflexes to take care of that.

She stretches for it, instead.

Someone, it seems, has been learning how to show off.

And it does not make the ball any more difficult to catch square in the pocket of her glove.

Sometimes that's just how these things work.

Re: Top of the Ninth

[paladinsuitsyou]

Booth might have rolled his eyes a little bit at the showing off, but in a good-natured way. Well. Mostly good-natured.

It was, objectively, a beautiful catch.

Re: Top of the Ninth

[ways_diamond]

And now it's two outs, still no one on base, and number 12, Felix Gaeta comes to the plate.

#12 - Felix Gaeta

[mr_gaeta]

On the one hand, Gaeta's had two prior at-bats to study Arnold's throws, and he's almost twenty years older than the Enigmas' pitcher.

On the other? Sometimes, even the mediocre players get lucky.

When the first pitch crosses the plate, Gaeta slams it into the outfield. From the initial, faintly bewildered pause as he watches it go, it's pretty clear he considers luck more of a factor in this particular hit than any skill he's picked up.

But then, grinning quick but bright, he takes off.

Gaeta covers two bases and starts to go for third by the time the ball makes it to the infield; reconsidering, he dives back for second base and stays put.

Re: #12 - Felix Gaeta

[ways_diamond]

It's a good double, but he doesn't have a chance to make it further before the inning ends.

The official score of Milliways' first baseball game will be Paradoxes 4, Enigmas 5. But since the game was always going to be for fun first and foremost, they'll play the bottom of the ninth, anyway.

Starting with X-23.