Baseball During Quarantine Matthew Robertson After more than four months of waiting We are finally going to have a season And why it took so long to approve I know not the reason I drive to my first game out in Cayuga And for the diamond, I keep my eyes peeled The smile starts to fade from my face As I see no one has maintained the field After we run our warm-up drills I grab my bat, ready to step up to the plate Everybody was ready to start Except for the umps, who were thirty minutes late We take the lead rather quickly And we’d usually be shouting together without a care But rules are very different this year So, we have to cheer from our individual camping chairs It’s their turn to bat and one guy pops it up I throw my mask off to make the catch and call But the umpire awards the kid first base Because we had used the other team’s ball We end up blowing out the other team And I stop at Sonic for a quick snack Even though this season is unusual I’m still so glad that baseball is back
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