Bunt

Ethan Bennett has the kind of nickname that sticks because everyone thinks it is true. At Mill Creek High, they call him Bunt. No power. No arm. No future. The kid who cannot hit, cannot throw, and should never be trusted with a place on the varsity baseball team. He only tries out because his pride gets ahead of his brain. Then Ethan finds an old glove in the abandoned equipment shed behind the town’s dying ballfield. It belonged to Caleb Hart, Mill Creek’s forgotten baseball prodigy, a seventeen-year-old who died in 1945 before he could play the championship game that was supposed to make him a legend. Somehow, Cal is back. Old-fashioned, impossible, and terrifyingly good at baseball. Cal can pitch like a ghost story. Ethan can barely catch without flinching. But when Mill Creek’s broken team starts chasing a season no one believes they deserve, Ethan discovers that being useless in the spotlight is not the same as being useless forever. Behind the plate, bruised, scared, and stubborn enough to make better players furious, he begins to learn the one thing nobody expected from him. How to hold the line. Because sometimes the smallest play changes the whole game.