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Mr. Strike Out (Jake Maddox Sports Stories)

by Jake Maddox

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Mason said: " SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Mason Williams

David Gray, the best pitcher that plays on the Yankees baseball team is having trouble hitting. This book is a realistic fiction book about working hard and trying your best. David practiced his SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Mason Williams

David Gray, the best pitcher that plays on the Yankees baseball team is having trouble hitting. This book is a realistic fiction book about working hard and trying your best. David practiced his hitting, but he was not good at it after practicing. His coach, and most of his teammates tried to lift him up out of his slump so he could make all-stars. The main characters in this book is David, Coach John, his teammate Mark, and his teammate Andy. The other characters are Coach, Ryan, the Lions pitcher, the Mustangs pitcher the Frogs pitcher, the Hawks pitcher, and the Wolves pitcher.

The Yankees were playing the Lions. He had two outs and a runner on third. David struck out but the Yankees won the game anyway. David 2 days later, at practice, David went and warmed up with his coach John. Coach asked David how much he had been practicing his batting. Coach explains who Babe Ruth was. This changed David’s whole perspective about hitting, because Babe Ruth was a pitcher like David was. A few days later the Yankees were playing against the mustangs. There were two outs, and two runners on base. David struck out. He asked the coach if he could teach him how to hit. They went to the field and David’s teammate, Andy, was going to pitch the ball to David while the Coach went to the outfield. David hit every ball to the outfield. The Yankees played the frogs in a game a few days later. David struck out three kids to get them out of the inning. David was up after his teammate, Mark. Mark hit a triple to start off the inning. David had two strikes to start off the at bat. The third pitch came. Crack! It was a pop up and the pitcher caught it. A few days later at practice, David was throwing with Coach John. David was mad at himself because he struck out again. Coach John reminded how even the best got out a lot. Coach told David what he needs to do to help him with his hitting. He told David that tennis would help him. Avid was confused at first, but Coach John said that the movements of tennis was the same as baseball. A few days later, the Yankees were facing the Hawks. The score of the game was three to four and the Yankees were winning. David was up to bat. The pitcher threw the ball and David hit it! The Coach told David it was foul. David came back up to the plate again, and he hit it again. But this one was also foul. David hit the next one but the pitcher caught it. David came to practice, and told Coach John that he hasn’t been practicing because he gets out every time. Andy came and pitched to David again. He hit it, but it was a pop up. He hit another one by second base. The second one he hit was hit in the air and landed all the way in left field. The Yankees were playing the Wolves a few days later. Mark was on second and another teammate, Ryan, was on third. The pitcher threw him the ball. Another foul ball. Here comes the second pitch. Another foul ball. Here comes the third pitch. Crack! It was fair. David kept running until he was told to stop. Coach John said,” Stop here.” David looked at the scoreboard and the Yankees were winning 3 to 4. David said, “No more Mr. Strike Out!”

The things that I liked about this book was how everybody helped and pushed him. Even though things didn’t always go his way, David Gray still tried his best with the help of Coach John and Andy. At the beginning of the story, it shows how he was striking out. At the middle of the story, David was still striking out, but he was making progress. Close to the end of the story, he was hitting it fair, but the other team was catching it. At the end, he hit an RBI triple to win the game. What I did not like about this story, is how Mark is. He kept talking bad about David to his Dad (coach). Even though this pushed David and it deeply affected the end of the story in a good way, Mark still shouldn’t have acted like that. He should’ve tried to pushed David in a good way.

The book Mr. Strike was a good book. It teaches the readers how trying your best and working hard will always be good. Look at David, he went all the way from striking out every at bat, to hitting a game winning triple. This book can inspire you to do your best like David. But if you are doing good at something and you see someone else struggling, you should try to help him like Andy and Coach John did to David. From 1 out of 5 stars, I would rate this book a 4.5. It would’ve been better if it were longer. That is why I would rate this a 4.5 star.

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