My Up and Down Season by Justin Williams

         The team and I were ready for the first baseball game of the season. It was a cool windy night. We all were so excited to finally get into the game we love. Our first game was away playing the Franklin County Eagles. As we got off the bus we stretched, threw a couple balls, and ran back and forth to get our bodies ready.

First, as the first player gets up to bat for the eagles, I was in center field. I could feel the excitement. I was jittery in my legs and I could hear the sound of the fans cheering. It was as loud as a tornado. I got into my ready position. The player hits it into left center field and I dive for the ball it was like a hammer coming down on me. And unfortunately broke my hand on the 1^st play of the game. One of the players came over and said “hey, are you ok?” at first I thought it wasn’t as bad. “I was fine”, I said. I looked at my hand and right as I did, I knew it wasn’t good. After our game I went to the hospital to check on my hand to see if it is broken or not. The doctor called me into this very large room.  He said “please sit down and put your hand down on this table”. When everything was all done and clear I went back into the waiting room to get my cast, and said that it would take 6 weeks to fully heel. I was extremely disappointed, because that was almost half of my season gone away.

            However, one of the reasons I still remember this moment is probably because it was the 1^st game and I couldn’t play the next seven games, and I was eager to get back onto the field.

            Finally, we had a game the day I got my cast off, at first I felt uncomfortable and couldn’t really move my hand, but over the time it got a lot better, and I was so excited to be back. Of course it was against the same team, and I was the lead off. I felt nervous, I could see where I wanted to hit the first ball. I got a double by hitting it over the 2ed baseman’s head it and felt amazing. It felt like I hit the ball a million yards away. I ended up being three for four that day and we won 8-3. It was a great day.