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This is a bit off thread, but I never really understood how baseball works. I was a big fan of Adachi Mitsuru, who wrote a ton of baseball themed mangas, but since baseball isn't popular at all I never really understood the games. So there is a guy who throws the ball, on the other side there is another one who tries to bat it, and if he does he might score a point, depending on if some other guys who run like mad around before the pitcher's team can recover the ball. It's weird.
You've got the basics right. Like most sports, it's really hard to get a sense of how it works by reading a description. You need to watch a game (or, better yet, participate in a game) to get a real sense of it. People tried to explain cricket to me many times but it took viewing a couple of matches to really understand the flow of the game. Some games, like soccer, are fairly easy to describe but even then it's hard to get a sense of scale of the pitch and how the players interact with one another.
In that first paragraph, Shelby displays her mad rhymez. :)
Shelby likes her rhyming. She secretly composes song lyrics in her notebooks, too.
I find baseball very interesting because it's the only pro sport where the defense has complete control of the ball. A good enough pitcher and defense, along with a ladleful of luck, and the offense gets nit. Nada. Nothing.
See "no hitter" or "perfect game".
See "no hitter" or "perfect game".
Very true. I am only a sideways consumer of baseball (soccer is my thing), but even the chanciest no hitter grabs my attention like nothing else.
Firefly Jelly 21st Apr 2023, 3:00 PM
Sally Blaze is the main character in a longish piece of fiction I wrote in this same setting, done as a series of journals about her experiences during the baseball season. I noted what seemed to be a family resemblance and decided that Nihal and Sally were cousins. Pam decided on the charming gap between their front teeth being one of the tells.
Pro baseball in the City is approximately equal to minor league A-ball in the USA or high-level semi-pro ball. Women in the game are rare, as they are in our world, but Sally has her secret weapon: she can throw a great knuckleball, a pitch that relies on skill and technique rather than brute arm strength. Sally has a real-life parallel in Eri Yoshida, a Japanese knuckleballer (who threw sidearm, to boot) who was the only woman on a small market pro team in Texas.
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