Pitchers and Catchers Report: Winning with the Wildcats

By Cornelia Quick

Wildcats batting coach Cassie Snow has helped Charlie Maple overcome his jitters with the assistance of Zane Dillinger, but now she's faced with a new challenge - pitcher Frank Mumford and catcher Gabe Scalzido are constantly on the brink of coming to blows, putting the Wildcats' big game against the Zenith Zephyrs in jeapordy. Meanwhile Zane has asked to scale back the sexy times he's been sharing with Cassie so he can focus on the game, leaving her frustrated and horny.

 

Can Cassie's unorthodox coaching techniques resolve the battle in the battery, while also scratching the itches that are driving her distraction?

 

This is the second installent in the "Winning with the Wildcats" series featuring Cassie, Zane, and the Wasconaway Wildcats.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cornelia Quick
• Release date: Mar 12, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215202609

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Trouble in the battery

Our story so far (as told in Cassie Clears the Bases):

Cassie Snow, batting coach for the Mudskipper League’s Wasconaway Wildcats, faced a particular challenge with Charlie Maple, who had been a high school baseball phenomenon before his parents’ deaths derailed his ambitions. Now he’s trying to return to baseball, but his nerves are getting in the way of his talent. With the help of Zane Dillinger, a veteran major leaguer looking to retire to the quieter pace of the Mudskipper League, Cassie used a highly charged threeway in the clubhouse weight room to help Charlie find the confidence and focus he needed to get his groove back.

Their session in the weight room had been surprisingly effective at calming Charlie’s jitters and helping him focus on the game. The very next morning Cassie could see the difference in Charlie, and not just in the wink and grin he gave her when he swaggered into the clubhouse. Where before he would swing at every pitch as though it were the last chance he would ever have at hitting a ball, even if it was well out of the strike zone, now he had a far more discerning eye, casually shaking off bad pitches and lining up the good ones to his best advantage. There was still work to do – his time away from the game had greatly diminished the strength that had once made him the Wasconaway High star against whom other young players were measured at Chester E. Middleton Veterans’ Park Field – but he was well on his way out of the slump that had worried her.

But as so often happened, it seemed, once one worry was put to rest, another rose up to take its place. Now that she had the batting order set for the exhibition game against the Zenith Zephyrs, just under a week away, she thought she would be able to settle into focusing on honing skills and working on strategy. A stumbling block had emerged, though, not among the batters but in the battery: the team’s top pitcher, Frank Mumford, and best catcher, Gabe Scalzido, were not so much failing to work well together as being on the verge of coming to blows.

Cassie noticed it first as a subtle tension: Frank would cock his head at Gabe, expecting his catcher to signal his preferred pitch, and then shake it off with a frown and demand another. Sometimes it seemed they were working through the whole repertoire of pitches that Frank had perfected, which was impressive, before landing on some agreement; and even then Frank looked displeased with the choice.

This simmering back and forth went on for most of the morning, delaying her own plans – she couldn’t very well coach batters who never had a chance to swing – before it suddenly erupted. Gabe had thrown a dozen signals to Frank, who shook off every one of them, until the pitcher finally sent a fastball not into Gabe’s glove but buzzing past his right ear, narrowly missing both the batter’s hip and Gabe’s head and crashing into the dugout wall with a resounding crunch. Gabe was up in a flash, mask and glove flying over the plate, sprinting at the pitcher’s mound