From Deadspin.com • Howard Megdal
The 29 young women who gathered on the pristine green turf of the Centenary University baseball field in mid-August for Baseball For All’s first-ever scouting combine for women — a group looking to continue their baseball careers into college — all shared commonalities in their individual stories.
This has long been true of girls who love baseball, but that common story had an unhappy, early ending. It was always a series of set pieces — a coach urging them, either through habit or something more insidious, over toward the softball field. Those who stuck around and pushed through Little League encountered, before too long, a middle school or high school refusal.
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That’s part of the infield Foxx had behind her when she took the mound on Sunday, pitching to her mentor, Greenwood. Foxx got Gaby Velez, 20, to swing and miss on a high fastball for the first out. The two have known each other for years, Velez exclaiming “Why’d you do that to me?” with a smile as she returned to the dugout. Foxx got the next hitter swinging at the curve, her out pitch, and retired the side, thanks to her two-seamer, on a ground ball to Jennings, who fired it to first, Maston making the stretch to assure the out.
