Fast Pitch

The Firebirds arrive at their next game and find that one of the players on the opposing team is Rebecca Murphy, a bulkier softball player who previously shattered Shenice’s ankle by sliding home with metal cleats (illegal for their league). Coach Nat shakes Shenice out of it, but she is still distracted by her family’s history. She plays a terrible game, dropping and missing throws she usually would not, but her team pulls together and wins. When she arrives home, her best friend, Scoob, waits to talk to her about why she’s so distracted. She tells him everything, and he advises her to speak to Uncle Jack.

Shenice visits Uncle Jack, but he has one of his less lucid days; she struggles to get information from him. About halfway through the visit, he realizes who Shenice is and continues the story he started the other day. He tells her that JonJon went to a dinner with recruiters, got directions to the bathroom, got lost, and ended up in a room with valuables. He immediately left the room, but Jacob Carlyle—a competitor in a Minor League team—saw him and reported him. Jacob walked away with the Joe DiMaggio glove he later claimed JonJon stole, and nobody believed JonJon did not steal it.