“Win! Win! Win!” they yelled.
“Oh, we’ll win all right,” said Captain Littell grimly.
And he and his men gave good evidence of doing so a few minutes later. Sam literally “went to pieces.” He lost all control of the ball, and was fairly “knocked out of the box.” There was a look of despair on the faces of his mates.
“What’s the matter with him?” demanded Joe, who was surprised at the sudden slump.
“Oh, that’s what he does every once in a while,” said a disgusted Silver Star supporter. “You can’t depend on him. Wow, that’s rotten!” for Sam had delivered a ball that was batted over the right-field fence.
Instantly there was a wild scene. Two men were on second and third base respectively when this “homer” was knocked and they came racing in. The home-run batter followed.
“Ring around the rosey!” yelled the Resolute captain. “If we had more on base they’d all come in. Hit at anything, fellows! Hit everything.”
It looked as if they were doing it, for they made six runs that inning, which brought the score to thirteen to nine in favor of the visitors.
“Five runs to win, and four to tie,” murmured Darrell as his men came in from the field for their inning. “Can we do it?”