Perfect pitch for this batter, this moment. The dance was as old as the game: catcher signaling the pitch, pitcher waiting for the right signal, the pitch he wanted to throw. He dragged his arm over his forehead, stood straight up on the mound, and took a deep breath. They were the words he told himself every time the game got tense. A breeze blew in from the bay, but Tyler couldn’t stop sweating. One more, Tyler caught the ball from the catcher. “Strike!” The umpire stood and pumped his right arm. His heart slammed around in his chest as he reeled back and released a pitch. Tyler actually felt perfect.Īs if tonight even the ghosts of his past were cheering for him. Nearly five thousand fans screamed beneath the lights on this beautiful August evening.
Bent at the waist, the ball an extension of his arm, Tyler stared down the next batter. Tyler adjusted his Blue Wahoos cap and dug the toe of his shoe into the soft dirt of the pitcher’s mound at the Pensacola Bayfront Stadium. But there was one thing Tyler had never accomplished. Two decades of wins and losses, warm-ups and strikeouts, game after game after game. SINCE HIS FOURTH BIRTHDAY, Tyler Ames had logged nearly twenty thousand hours training and practicing and preparing for the game of baseball. It is time for the mission to begin… Excerpt Can such small and seemingly insignificant actions of the unseen bring healing and redemption? And can the words of a stranger rekindle lost love? Every journey begins with a step. Across the country, Tyler’s one true love Sami Dawson has moved on.Ī series of small miracles leads Tyler to a maintenance job at a retirement home and a friendship with Virginia Hutcheson, an old woman with Alzheimer’s who strangely might have the answers he so desperately seeks.Ī team of Angels Walking take on the mission to restore hope for Tyler, Sami, and Virginia. Then just when things seem to be turning around, Tyler hits rock bottom. He has lost everyone he loves on his way to the big leagues. When former national baseball star Tyler Ames suffers a career-ending injury, all he can think about is putting his life back together the way it was before. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes the first in a brand-new series about second chances-a dramatic story about a washed up baseball player, the love he left behind, and the miracles that might save them both.
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