On the home team’s starting pitcher
“You’ve got to have an attitude if you’re going to go far in this game.”
Bob Gibson
He’s gotta keep ‘em off balance
using his head as well as his arm
mixing it up north & east
and west & south
consistently changing speeds
—letting the ball fly from various
release points
and mostly importantly
never showing them
the whites of his eyes
june two thousand twenty-two
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