The Right Fight: 4/23/14

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Prompt: Summarize what you just read.

     The first 40 pages are about Roman's last baseball game, his favorite sport, before he goes off to war. There is a band playing because it is the last game of the season. Roman's team is playing the Federalsburg A's who he hates. The shortstop and second baseman for the A's are very good and will probably advance to the majors. These are Roman's least favorite people on the A's and he even tells his pitcher to hit them. The pitcher refuses to do this and asks why he hates them. Roman says it is because they make easy plays look hard to look good. He also doesn't like haw they could go to the majors and he will not. He says just to throw inside to push them back away from the plate.

     This was when the girl Roman likes and invited to the game, Hannah, arrives. She hears Roman telling his teammate to hit the A's players and calls it violent strategy. Then one of the players says that there are no girls allowed in the dugout and Roman says, "Well, you look like a dame to me, Nardini, and nobody's saying you can't stay." They start pushing each other but the rest of the team break it up. They then go onto the field. Roman has been called, "The Captain," by his teammates on his baseball teams since before high school. He doesn't remember how the name started but it was definitely not because he was the best player on the teams. Roman plays first base on the team.

     After that inning Roman is talking to Hannah. They see Nardini hit a home-run. this and talking to Hannah causes Roman to forget that it is his turn turn to bat. He is distracted by this and strikes out in three pitches. He had been moving slowely down the batting order as it got later in the season and he is batting sixth. But even though he struck out everyone in the stadium gives him a standing ovation because they know that he is going to war. He then asks Hannah to marry him. She says yes as the final batter in the order drives in two runs to make Roman's team's lead three. Then One of the A's players gets hit with a pitch and a fight starts. This results in Roman being ejected.