There we were, Getting ready to leave the school to go to the first game of the 2009 high school basball sectionals at lutheran high school. We got ont he bus and no one said a word. Everyone had their headphones in listening to the music that really pumped them up. About ten minutes away from the field, being one of the senior captains, i got up and gave a speech challenging the team to step up and play with all their hearts. I gave them the speech for the movie 300, where Leomitus said, "Give them nothing, but take for them...everything."
When we stepped out on to the field, we had a warm-up better than we had had all year. We were all throwing the ball hard and accurate. Our pitchers were throwing the ball hard, and gettting alot of movement on their breaking balls. After warm-ups our coacjh started danciong around in our huddle trying to get us pumped up, and it worked, to say the least.
The first couple of innings were extremly close with a score of 0-0 in the bottom of the fifth inning. Defensively, our team was doing better than they had all year, by making bacour k handed stops, and a diving catch by each one of the outfielders. However, we could not match our offensive play with our defensive play. We only had one hit that i had in the second inning to left field.
In the bottom of the seventh inning, the score was 1-0 them. there two outs and i was up to bat with a runner on first. the first two pitches i fouled off to fa;ll behind with a 0-2 count. The next three pitches that he threw me were balls that put the count to 3-2. The very next pitch, even though i knew exactly what he was going to throw, i could not pullt he trigger and watch a curce ball break right into the middle of the strike zone to end the game.
Looking back on the experience of high school baseball, i would not have traded a single moment for something else. All the friends that i keep in contact witht he most are the people that i played high schoolbaseball with. they are some of my best friends and would do anything for them.
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This is a good start to your memoir! I feel like you just need a little more details added and your whole paper. One suggestion would to make more build up to the climax of your story. I like how you tell us how passionate you and your team were about winning and how you shared some of your speech with us.
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