Tuesday, October 9, 2012

A Sad Day For Mudville


Author’s Note: “ This is a cause and effect piece about the story Casey At The Bat.”

It is the bottom of the ninth for Mudville’s Baseball team and Casey is up to bat. The game is tied 4 to 4 and the crowd roars as Casey steps up to bat because he is Mudville’s only chance of winning the game.  He takes his mark and the first pitch is thrown, Casey doesn’t even swing his bat. “Strike One,” the umpire calls. Casey did the same thing to the next pitch and the umpire yelled,”Strike Two!” This was it, if Casey missed this ball, the game was over, and if he made it his team would win the game.

As  the last pitch was thrown Casey swung but missed the ball, the game was over and Mudville had lost. As an effect the crowd was silent and Mudville shaked hands with the other team disappointed in themselves and Casey. If Casey would have gotten a home run this story would have changed completely.  The crowd would have stood up and cheered and the team would all get in a huddle and shout, “We did it!” But instead their team lost and they went home sad because of their failure.

1 comment:

  1. Great job Maddie!(: I really liked how you set it up having him actually get two strikes instead of just telling readers that he had two strikes. If you kind of get what I'm saying. Anyway, good job!

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