Bears
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Extra Innings, Chapter 18 · Extra Innings
Read fullThe board said it first. Up on the left-field scoreboard, under the innings, under the runs and the hits and the errors, a white square lit that Gil had not seen in a championship…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 17 · Last Road Trip Home
Read full"It went in the mail slot at Curtis's door at seven-fifteen," Gil said. "And then I sat in this car for an hour." He had the engine off and his wrists hooked over the wheel. The…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 16 · Rennie’s Answer
Read fullRain ran down the motel's outside corridor in sheets, and the light from the vending machine at the far end turned every drop orange before it hit the rail. Rennie stepped out of…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 15 · Magic Number
Read fullThe roar came through the radio before the call did. Rennie was in the visiting training room under the stands in Round Rock holding two ice bags by their knots, and the little…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 14 · The Offer
Read fullGil's office door was shut. It had been propped open with a rubber wedge every day since April, through the hold and the scans and the call-ups and the night the whole clubhouse…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 13 · Clearance
Read full"Six, Doc. Eighty-one pitches. Write it down before I start making it better than it was." Teague said it in the tunnel, cap in one hand, jacket zipped to the chin over the right…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 12 · Overnight
Read fullThe aisle was lit from the floor, a row of small amber lights down each side where the bunks began, and past them the dark. Rennie lay stretched out in the upper bunk on the right…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 11 · Blind Item
Read fullThe phones went off one by one and then all at once. The first one buzzed on the bench by Pike's locker at twenty past one. Then two more across the room, then one in a bag, then…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 10 · Call-Up
Read fullThe list was taped to the clubhouse door at eye level, on the back of a laundry slip, in Turo's square capitals. REYES, T. 2 BAGS. MASK. 3 MITTS. SHIN GUARDS. CUP. THE GOOD BAT…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 9 · The Deadline
Read fullThe phone went at nine-forty, Sacramento time, while Gil was still in his undershirt with one sock on. "Skip." Curtis Ashby, already at his desk in Omaha, where it was coming up on…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 8 · Gabby
Read fullThe arrivals curb at Eppley smelled of jet fuel and cut grass, and the heat came up off the concrete in sheets. Gil had parked the truck in the cell lot and walked over anyway…
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Extra Innings, Chapter 7 · Protocol
Read fullThe foul tip sounded like a bat breaking, except it was bone and plastic. Tomás Reyes, thirty-eight, dropped to one knee behind the plate with his left hand on the dirt and his…