Ranger Pumpkin

Thomas had an assignment at school to decorate a pumpkin and write a story about it. Here's what he came up with. The All-Star team in the story was Thomas' t-ball team from June. :-)

Jon the Pumpkin Pitcher

The Texas Rangers were playing against the All-Stars. The All-Stars were winning. The Texas Rangers had tried everything they could. But nothing was working. The Rangers could not get any of the All-Stars out. They scored run after run. And the Texas Rangers were out of pitchers.
To the surprise of the All-Stars, the Texas Rangers put a pumpkin pitcher onto the pitcher’s mound. The All-Stars laughed at the Texas Ranger pumpkin player, whose name was Jon.
Jon kept on saying, “I can pitch for the Texas Rangers!” in his tiny pumpkin voice. But no one listened. They were too busy laughing.

While the first batter was laughing at the pumpkin, Jon struck him out. And then one by one, Jon struck everyone out. No All-Star could hit Jon’s pitches. The laughter stopped.
The Texas Rangers had a really good pitcher. And the Texas Rangers won the game! Jon was the greatest player of all. And no one laughed at him again.