I got this one from Netgalley, so I can read and review it before it’s published. I chose this as the description looked interesting, it’s a story of a young baseball fan’s misadventures after getting locked inside a pro baseball stadium on the eve of the biggest game of the season.
Timothy “Pumpsie” Strickland is the main character, and his mother and him share a passion for the hometown Nashville Wildcats. Pumpsie is also a baseball player, but he is in a batting slump and a very important tournament is coming up. The coach is considering benching him.
At the same time, the Nashville Wildcats have a 3-game series to end the season against the Portland Hemlocks. If Nashville sweeps, they advance to the playoffs for the first time in a long time.
For the 2nd game, his family of seven (Pumpsie has 4 siblings) attends the game as his twin sister, Tianna is filing a commercial after the game to promote the ball club. Tianna’s co-star is Campy, a dog! A thunderstorm scares Campy, and he runs into the stadium and Timothy goes after him. His Home Alone adventure begins as there are also two villains from the Portland team lingering in the stadium who are trying to do something bad so the Nashville team will have a disadvantage for the third game. A lot of things happen inside the park and I won’t spoil anything, but I will say it can easily be a Disney movie.
Overall, I didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought aI would. Probably because it’s aimed toward a younger reading mind than mine.
