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Monday's game was against Tulelake High School at home. Kyle was named the starter and wasn't given a pitch count.

”We need to win this one, boys.” Coach said before warmups. ”Even though they aren't in the league, they are ranked slightly higher than us in CIF division. And if that's not enough, I want you all to know that Servite beat them.” The team straightened up. ”That means Servite is ranked higher than us as well. We need to play catch up.”

”But we're undefeated in league too.” Noah spoke up. ”Aren't we okay as long as we beat them?”

”Hypothetically.” Coach nodded. ”As long as we stay undefeated and win league, then we punch our ticket to CIF. But-” His eyes cut across the group of us. ”We're not the only ones undefeated in league still. Servite and Golden West haven't suffered a loss yet. They play each other this week so one will drop, but that's only one loss. OLU only has two losses so they aren't far behind either. This next month will be grueling, but you all will need to touch it out.”

Coach looked at Garret. ”We also play Golden West this week. At home. On Wednesday. You'll get the start so I need you in peak condition.”

Garret nodded. ”I'll throw a few pitches in the pen during the game.”

”Good.” He looked around. ”Next week is OLU and Servite. We're going to play six games in a span of fourteen days. It's not going to be easy.” He made a face. ”It's not good to say this, but we got the easy teams out of the way. We've already played American Christian Academy, Redwood, and Porterville twice. No more easy wins left in league. We have one win from Quincy and one from OLU. I shouldn't have to remind you boys how close they were.”

He didn't have to remind me. Those were my worst games. Sort of. Against OLU, I went 1-2 with a walk and a run scored. It wasn't a pretty game for me. If it wasn't for Zeke's three run homer, who knows what would have happened. As for Quincy...that's a game I would like to forget. I went 1-3 with a walk, and two runs scored, but the embarrassment of the bad slide was still fresh in my mind.

A glance at Dave told me he didn't forget that game either. It's when he messed up his nail, and had to be benched ever since. It's been two and a half weeks, and his finger was looking somewhat better. No more blood or pus, it was making a comeback. He was able to start throwing again, yet wasn't allowed to start pitching until the end of this week.

”Okay, here's the lineup for today,” Coach continued.

1 SS Noah Atkins

2 2B Jake Hollander

3 LF Mahki Holstrom

4 CF Zeke Atkins

5 1B Julian Wilson

6 RF Tanner Erickson

7 3B Jason Morris

8 C Alex Farrell

9 P Kyle Atkins

Garret would be in the bullpen for today's game in order to prepare for Wednesday's big game; meaning, Tanner would get the start in right field again.

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