Our Favorite Pastime

Logan Jean used to be inseparable from his best friend and teammate, Riley Sinclair. From stick ball to Little League to state championships, Logan and Riley were a team of two. That changed one fateful night near the end of high school, when Logan lost the best person in his life over a stupid mistake he never meant to make.

Now adults, Logan must face Riley in what might be the turning point of his Minor League career. Riley is no doubt getting called up to the Majors, Logan hopes to get called up as well, and both are competing for this season’s MVP award. But if he can’t strike out the one batter that’s haunted him since high school, Logan may never get his big break.

Riley Sinclair has spent the past seven years getting into their ex-best friend’s head to taunt and psych him out, trying to beat him on the baseball field, instead of trying to undo the damage they’d done to their relationship when they were younger. Tonight, after the biggest game of their Minor League careers, Riley might have one last chance to explain to Logan what really happened all those years ago, and maybe fix what’s been broken.

Does Logan have what it takes to strike out his biggest rival in the league? Can Riley muster up the nerve to finally say to Logan what they’ve wanted to all this time? Or will the two of them remain strangers, standing sixty-feet apart, forever?