Creative Writing: The Atlanta Braves

About three weeks ago, the Packer Varsity baseball team beat Berkeley Carroll school for the first time in twelve years and in glorious fashion. Tears streamed down my face as our winning run crossed the plate in extra innings, dust flying up as my teammates and I mobbed each other at the plate. Yet a few short days later, our team was blindsided by the news that St. Ann’s had pulled off back to back upsets to squeak their way into the playoffs ahead of us - just as our season seemed to be looking up, it was over.

The Philadelphia Phillies have been a staple in Major League baseball for over 120 years. The Phillies are one of the League’s oldest teams dating back all the way to the year 1883. Over the years the Phillies have acquired many accolades and accomplishments; although the Phillies are a decorated team for many positive reasons they have also become the league’s most losing team, with over 10,000 losses. Although the Philadelphia franchise may have the most losses in any professional sport, whether it is football, basketball, or soccer, they have had many playoff runs and even a few World Series appearances. Throughout the winning and the losing seasons the Phillies have had some very good players, which went on to be a Hall-of-Famers, while many of the players were mediocre at best. Although not all of the players that played in Philadelphia were good, they had heart and drive to not let the rambunctious fans in Philadelphia not get the best of them. Whenever a family goes to one of these baseball games, the game may not be the center of attention for the kids or even the adults with the most entertaining mascot of all the Phillie Phanatic dancing around and being goofy in front of 20,000 people in the stands.

Our baseball season has definitely been a rebuilding season, but through the first 3 games of the season, we are 2-1. Over .500. I am really proud of our teams contributions and how be have been hitting the ball, everyone in the lineup is hitting the ball. Our coach has been happy with the improvements and when the coach is happy, the team is happy, and when the team is happy, the fans are happy, and when the fans are happy, the whole team atmosphere is happy. I really am having a fun year, and I will take you through it.

Sunshine was pouring out from in between the buildings, casting shadows all around Ponyboy and the gang as they walked to Pony’s school. They were taking their time walking down the streets and for the first time they all were really seeing what was all around them. Memories were surfacing in their minds showing them what it all meant to them. With every step they took on the sidewalk they remembered a different memory as if they were walking down memory lane. Ponyboy didn’t think it was possible for him to be walking down this street for the last time as a high school student, but he had gone through the years with great grades that earned him many scholarships.

The football Field is merely a Field ---- In winter the landscape is rather drab one might say ---- But I believe the winter Field is fantastic compared to summer ---- Now don't get me wrong summer is grand as well ----

The Diamondbacks will rely heavily on their offense in their attempt to make a playoff push, but will need everything to go right to get them there. Several changes were made in the offseason, including making Torey Lovullo their skipper, snagging Mike Hazen from Boston to be their GM, and numerous important acquisitions, all in an effort to

Atlanta hosts the Nationals in a three game series this week as well. The Braves began 2017 with a 1-6 record, but if their winning streak continues, they could be leading the division by the weekend.

Toronto's defensive woes culminated in a meltdown of epic proportions during the postseason, losing four-straight games in the opening

The team has thankfully been injected with a whole heap of new talent since the Trade Deadline, highlighted by some new arms in the bullpen. However, as things tend to work out in baseball, the club is only going to go as far as their starting pitching will take

Back in the main level of the factory, Wolf and Fox find Hawk lying on the ground, pale and unresponsive, his bulletproof vest next to him and the edges of a red stain showing around a wad of gauze. A soldier that Fox assumes is N-Unit's medic kneels next to him, along with Snake and Coyote. The three medics are talking frantically among themselves. The rest of N-Unit hovers nervously nearby; the rest of H-Unit is nowhere to be seen. Dust particles dance through the beams of sunlight from the holes where windows used to be, giving the whole scene a strangely dreamy air.

Dodgers had a great season with 91-63 record; however, on the end of season they have a big slump, losing 20 of 25 of the last games. That makes a big difference

When a team has this much success it leads people to wondering, what has the team been doing? Perhaps this years team was dedicated to getting better, or maybe practice has been tougher this year. It could be a number of things, to find out i asked Ty Gentry who said “ The team was all there to gget better and we all had a mindset to win no one wanted to lose and everybody was willing to do what it took to win.”

Through the first inning there was no scored and no hits. Second inning comes, a walk, the first baserunner, but we can’t make anything out of it, neither could they score next half inning after 3 ground balls. Sheldon’s in the 3rd inning with 1 out, and then 2 and 3 come, he has gone 3 innings without a hit. Amazing! Bam a base, hit we got one! Again it doesn’t make a difference, by this time we are frustrated with ourselves.

They have traded away three of their five starting pitchers in the form of Yovanni Gallardo, Marco Estrada, and Mike Fiers. They have also moved Kyle Lohse to the bullpen and could still move Matt Garza before the seasons end. They have also moved players such as Carlos Gomez, Gerardo Parra, Jonathan Broxton and Aramis Ramirez. The running total is now seven players from the collapsed first place run. Even with the Brewers trading a number of players, they still have a solid core group and have a new wave of talent about to come up. The last time the Brewers had a real wave of young talent come up as a group, (Hardy, Hart, Braun, Fielder, Gallardo) they found themselves just two games away from the World

Coming off of a terrific 2016 season, the 91-70 American League Champions Cleveland Indians had high expectations going into 2017. The Indians made themselves into a seemingly unstoppable force. Cleveland had dominated in the regular season, especially in their division as they were also crowned American League Central regular season champions. They had helped themselves by winning a franchise high 14 straight games. This gave the Tribe tons of momentum heading into the postseason. On their trip to the World Series, the Indians managed to only lose one game. Everything was going Cleveland’s way until injuries arose in the pitching staff. The Indians had ended up only being able to pitch Corey Kluber and Josh Tomlin in the last three