Approaching Twi-Night

"You know, all those statistics, all those numbers, they've all been done before. You're not going to make it into the Hall of Fame or whatever. All you can do is make more numbers, right?"

Journeyman relief pitcher Jonathan "Ditch" Klein was all set to be a replacement player during the 1995 baseball strike...until the strike ended. Offered a contract in the minor leagues, on the same Upstate ballpark he once found success in high school, Ditch has one last chance to prove his worth. But to whom?

A manager with an axe to grind, a father second-guessing his pitching decisions, a local sportswriter hailing him as a hometown hero, a decade older than his teammates and trying to resurrect an injury-ridden career...Ditch thinks he may have a possible back-up plan: become a sportswriter himself. The only question is, is he a pitcher who aspires to be a writer? Or it is the other way around?

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