The bottom of the third would start off with Theo, Noah, and me. If I thought Theo's good pitching in the top of the third would translate to good hitting in the bottom of the inning, then I was completely mistaken. Theo had an ugly swing, but it made sense now that I think about it. As a sophomore who made the varsity team as a pitcher, that's probably where all of his attention and focus went to. He struck out swinging in three pitches.
Noah was only slightly better by making contact and hitting a grounder into play. It went straight to the first baseman though, who only had to scoop it up and tag first go an unassisted play.
Two outs, and I'm up with the bases empty. Like Coach had talked about, I needed to make the pitcher work. Only Zeke had made him throw more than seven pitches while everyone else did less. I stepped into the batter's box with my mind made up.
