Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for June 17, 2023

Hmmm… they must not have a field for the girls, so they’re using the boy’s baseball field. I’ve never seen a mound in softball.

I’ll bet Charile Brown wished he had someone like her on his team!

Skill, not luck. And being a south paw never hurts a pitcher.

Every time I put my hearing aids in, people around me start talking louder and traffic gets noisier.

That young pitcher has good form.

Gracie sounds like a woman I know who calls it lucky when someone else achieves their fitness goal through hard work and self control, 2 things she isn’t willing to do for her health.

That’s not luck. It’s skill.

I read the strip and as I leaving my understanding of it changed.

At first I read it as every time this girl throws the ball as pitcher the player from Gracie’s team misses.

As I went to leave it dawned on me that what she meant was that if this girl was the pitcher for a game Gracie’s team loses as her team misses the ball. Not that each individual time she pitches the ball they lose.

Which was meant?