the third most Important? ,is
the least to say.
Givin the blink of an eye, it’s smoked
coming your way.
to think,
not a chance you’ll stand,
to react,

One, from the furious spiraling
grass residue finds itself in just the right spot.
But, not too much, barely enough to moisten

Two – seam placement.
now that you’ve gathered yourself
prepare for an explosion of perfection
while at the last second
he enters the outskirts of your eyesight.

Three, the last stretch connects
and relief is finally found inside yourself,
inside the ball,
on the palm of the first baseman.

It’s a smeared recollection looking back on it all
you try to wonder how you did it all
so fast,
somehow your mind forces itself to, just forget,
a shift from making a play to,
now if I can just get a hit.