Hank Fletcher is an ace. He has a deadly arsenal of three pitches. The first: a one-hundred miles per hour (mph) plus, fastball. The second: an eighty-five mph slider that falls off the table as it crosses the plate. And the third: a sixty-five mph knuckleball that floats down to home plate like a butterfly. He's the only pitcher in the history of Major League Baseball to ever throw a one hundred mph fastball and a knuckleball.

In the last game of a season the Red Sox would hope to soon forget, they face-off against the New York Yankees, with a chance to send them home, too. Hank Fletcher is called-up from the minors to pitch, and he's well on his way to completing a no-hitter, when he's suddenly confronted by the ghost of his abusive father. 

Can Hank overcome his past and finish the no-hitter? 

Approximately 2,500 words.