Narrative Essay On Softball

Playing softball or any other sport was my favorite thing to do in middle school! Although I’ve loved sports my whole life, I’ve had many crummy experiences with sports throughout my life. Playing softball was more dangerous for me than basketball was and that’s very unusual for most people, because basketball is a more intense and active sport. Getting hurt during sports was very usual for me and it happened just about every practice, whether it was a serious injury or just a small one.

The day I had been waiting for my whole 8th grade softball season had finally come, 8th grade night! There were many emotions going through my mind for this game. I was nervous, excited, happy, and upset, all because this was going to be my last softball game to play on this field!

While on my way to the softball field to warm up, I realized I felt like I was going to throw up, because of how nervous

I was. We played extremely tough team this day and all I wanted was to win my last game on this field. This was a very rough time for both my mother and I because her baby was going to be in high school.
When I got to the field and started warming up, I felt very confident about how the game. I had a feeling we were going to win and I was trying to be as confident as possible! I didn’t get to warm up very long, before I got hurt, like usual. Whenever we would warm up, I would throw with Lexee Fulkerson, my best friend from Harrisburg. Next to us, Morgan Douglas and Mckenzie Sullivan, the pitcher and catcher, would warm up and they threw very hard while warming up, so they could get their arms loose.
One of the fastest pitchers in Southern Illinois, Mckenzie Sullivan threw very hard while warming up, so she could get warmed up to pitch extremely fast. . While my partner and I were playing catch, she had just thrown the ball to me, so I had looked down after I caught the ball, to get it out of my glove. Looking down while there are a bunch of people around you, throwing and warming up, probably isn’t a very good idea. You should always look forward and pay attention to everyone around you while warming up, just in case something happens and the ball slips out of one of their hands and the other person can’t get to it.
In this case, as soon as I looked down, the pitcher threw it the wrong direction and it was going exactly towards me. I looked down and didn’t get to see the ball coming for me. Unfortunately, I looked up as soon as the ball almost hit me. I had no time to move or react to the ball, so I just stood there, because I knew either way that the ball was going to hit me.
As soon as the ball hit me, I completely blacked out because it hit my forehead and it gave me a concussion.

After getting hit and blacking out, I just completely fell without knowing. Everyone ran to me and just stood around me until the coach could over there. All of the players had told me that they’d never seen coach run as fast as he did, but while lying on the ground blacked out, it felt like it took him forever to get over there to me. They said that I had a concussion, so they wouldn’t let me play, just to be safe.

I was very upset, because I wouldn’t be able to play my last 8th grade home game, but I knew they didn’t want me to play for a reason. Even though I knew that I didn’t need to play, I still begged my coach the whole game if I could play just because it would be my last game being able to play. Coach told me no until the very end of the game with two innings left. He finally put me in because we were tied and he wanted us to win. When I went in, we ended up winning the game by one point. This was the best game we had ever played in our whole middle school

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