Ian throws the plastic ball, and his brother swings and clips it with the red bat. The ball doesn’t go very far.<\/p>\n
“That wasn’t a good throw,” declares his brother. “So it’s called a ball.” He kicks it toward the middle of the yard.<\/p>\n
“How many of those do you get?”<\/p>\n
“Four,” says his brother, hesitantly. “Then… I get a ghost runner on first. The other ones go to third and fourth.”<\/p>\n
Ian’s positive there wasn’t a fourth base when they started, but he got out for missing it last time. He picks up the white ball out of the dirt.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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