It was the bottom of the 9th inning, two outs, bases loaded, and the proverbial three – two count on the opposing team batter. If we made this last out, the championship game would go into extra innings! We were on a traveling baseball team playing at home, and at 16 years old, I’d never seen so many fans at a game before. It was exciting and terrifying all at the same time. The batter hit an infield fly ball right to me. As if in horrifying slow motion, the ball hit the palm of my glove and rolled out […]