>>When you don't get your pitch, can't extend your arms and hit the ball into the bleacher seats the way you want to, you do the best you can with what you have, bounce a little chopper over the mound, in-and-out the ball down the right field line. Sometimes, the next best thing is enough to win the game.

I WISH Alex would learn this! LOL

>>Almost immediately, he goes into a slump.

LMFAO! So THAT's what happened! I should have guessed it. *g*

And this was the story that I never wanted to end. Bravo!