Playing the Game and Making the Play by Stephanie Doyle

Author:Stephanie Doyle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Making the Play

Contents

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER ONE

SCOUT BAKER STARED at the baseball diamond. Really hard. She watched the first baseman play his position. Watched how he kept the runner close. Watched the interplay between the second basemen and her prospect. Was there good communication there? All of it mattered.

Of course, what mattered most of all was whether he could hit, but Scout was looking for more than a one-tool player. The more tools a player had, the higher the rating. The higher the rating, the higher the draft pick.

Not that draft picks in baseball were as critical in as they were in other sports. In football and basketball, first-round draft picks could change an organization overnight. In baseball, first-round picks went to baseball school—aka the minor leagues—for a while. Which gave teams time to season them up, test their abilities and help them get ready for their shot at the majors. Sometimes it could be years before anyone could tell if the scouting had been accurate and if the kids, some as young as seventeen, had the real stuff.

Scout tried really hard to pay attention to what—she glanced down at her prospect sheet—David Tyree was doing on the field. She really did.

It was just that Jayson was sitting next to her and when he was sitting next to her sometimes it was hard to think about anything other than...

Well, Jayson.

“What are you thinking?”

Scout looked over at her new scouting apprentice and tried to push every errant thought from her head.

You’re so beautiful, even with your broken face. Sitting next to you is a huge distraction because all I want to do is put my hand on your thigh and run it up your leg. I want to kiss your neck and maybe bite your ear, but most of all I think I would like to just hold your hand. I’ve never been the type to hold someone’s hand.

“He doesn’t have it.”

Jayson turned to her with his jaw slightly slack. A former player himself, he’d gotten his chance in the majors. Until it happened.

It had been his first day in The Show. He’d been slated to start as the team’s right fielder. Then, in the top of the third inning, a high fly ball was hit his way. Jayson tracked it down with all the speed, power and determination of a player wanting to prove that he had what it took to be a major league ballplayer.

He ran all the way to the warning track, but when he leaped for the ball, he hit a spot on the wall where the padding had fallen away and left only solid brick in its place. He broke his nose and both orbital bones, and suffered a severe concussion.

Yet somehow, through all that, he’d managed to hang on to the ball.

For many fans of the game, he was the legend known as the face guy.

The reality was that he’d spent two weeks in an induced coma.

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