Everyone's Hero Page #7

Come on, guys. This is baseball.

Anything can happen.

What do you say?

Hmm.

All right, Yankees. Time's up.

Who's your hitter?

- Him. There's our hitter.

- Huh?

- What?

Play ball!

I... I don't know about this.

You are about to bat in the World Series!

I guess you guys really are desperate.

I know, I have no strike zone,

so don't swing.

Of course you swing.

Here, you can use my Darlin'.

But, Babe,

nobody's ever used Darlin' but you.

Yeah, well...

I don't want her to hear this,

but it's not really the bat,

it's the batter.

Now go get them, kid.

So what's happening? What did I miss?

- Yankee's gonna pinch hit.

- What?

I mean, what a great idea! Wow!

Who came up with that one?

Because that's a beauty, boy.

- Screwie!

- You can do it, Yankee,

and I'll be right here the whole time

to talk you through it.

Batter up!

Whoa! Scratch that.

I'll be right here.

I thought it was supposed to be Babe,

not a baby.

Well, sports fans,

the Yankees have put

a 10-year-old boy in as the pinch hitter.

- A boy? What, are they kidding?

- Oh, I'm being given a name

for the young rookie.

- It's Yankee Irving.

- Yankee Irving?

Now batting for the New York Yankees,

number one, Yankee Irving.

- That's my boy!

- Yankee?

They're putting him in the game.

Yankee. Yankee.

Okay, Lefty, all you have to do

is strike the kid out.

Just finish it!

Okay, kid, you're about to lose

a whole lot of baby teeth.

Settle in, Yank. You can do this!

Don't just stand there, you gotta swing.

Strike one!

Okay, now you know

he's throwing strikes. Be ready.

He can do it.

Watch me, now, watch me!

Curveball! Curveball! Swing!

- Strike two!

- Darn!

Come on now, sugar.

I cannot swing myself.

Yank!

Yankee.

Yankee, we're here!

We're here!

- Yank!

- Yank, we're here!

Mom? Dad?

- Just swing!

- Just swing!

You get your feet set right,

you can hit anything you can reach.

Keep your eye on the ball.

If Babe can do it, so can you.

- Oh, my.

- Time for the booger ball.

I can't believe you just blew

your nose on me.

Come on, Yankee.

Take your time. Focus!

Uh-oh.

I'm going! I'm going! I'm not going.

Run!

And he hit it!

The kid hit the ball!

Go, go, go, go, go.

It's a short blooper

and Irving is sprinting to first base!

I said I got it.

It sails right past Taylor,

the first baseman.

Go for second! Go for second!

Irving rounds first base

as Taylor and Cuyler chase it down.

Slide, Yankee!

Irving is rounding second

and is barreling towards third,

but I don't think he's gonna make it, folks.

Go, Yankee, go!

- Come on, Yankee! Go!

Move it! Move it!

Lefty Maginnis is covering... Holy cow!

- Irving just...

- Look at that kid go, huh?

- Come on, Yankee!

- Go, Yankee, go!

Oh, this is gonna be close, folks.

Hedley has come up with the ball

and looks to home plate.

- The fun's over, you little runt!

- Trip him! Somebody!

- The boy is not slowing down!

- Not this time, punk!

Slide!

Or not slide!

Safe!

- Way to go!

- All right, Yankee!

How about that kid, huh?

Oh, no! No!

That's a little Tiger if I ever seen one.

He did it! That's my Yankee!

Yankee! Yankee! Yankee!

Hey, Yank! We're coming down!

We're coming down!

That's my friend!

Ow! Ow!

Oh, that's me.

- We did it, Darlin'.

- No, you did it.

Like Babe said,

"It's not the bat, it's the batter. "

Listen to them, kid! They love you!

They're cheering for you, too, Screwie!

Can you believe it? I'm a home run ball!

Yahoo!

You always were.

Way to go, kid.

Thanks, Babe.

Yankee.

Yankee.

- Yankee.

- Yankee.

Mom! Dad!

- I did it, Dad. I did it.

- I always knew you could do it.

- You just kept swinging.

- Just like you taught me, Dad.

Yankee's home run sparked

the New York rally that scored seven runs.

Babe himself drove in four.

And when the Cubs came to bat,

they went down, one, two, three.

Just like that.

The Yankees won the World Series.

And it just goes to show you,

you can be the smallest,

you can be the weakest,

you can be the worst player on the field,

but when people tell you you're no good,

and say you should give it up,

you know what you do?

You just keep on swinging.

- Hello!

- Hey!

Yeah!

Uh-oh.

All right, all right. That's enough.

All right, Yankee.

That's enough, that's enough.

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