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Originally Posted by Catlady
I think the whole "pre-game" section shows him as a pawn of the "malicious fates." He's had a miserable childhood, baseball is going to be his salvation, and then, boom, Harriet shoots him and takes it all away. He doesn't deserve any of that; all he is, is a cocky and ambitious kid.
In the "batter up" section he is not the innocent victim, but still, his punishment is way out of proportion to his faults, especially since he's destroyed after he tries to do the right thing at the end.
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The punishment does seem a bit OTT, but he is such a cad, one has a hard time working up much sympathy. (And at the end, it's too little, too late, IMHO.)