On the last pitch, the overconfident Casey strikes out, ending the game and sending the crowd home unhappy. Casey is so sure of his abilities that he does not swing at the first two pitches, both strikes. Both runners are now in scoring position and Casey represents the potential winning run. Surprisingly, Flynn hits a single, and Blake follows with a double that allows Flynn to reach third base. The next two batters (Flynn and Jimmy Blake) are perceived to be weak hitters with little chance of reaching base to allow Casey a chance to bat. However, Casey is scheduled to be the fifth batter of the inning, and the first two batters (Cooney and Barrows) fail to get on base. Both the team and its fans (a crowd of 5,000, according to the poem) believe they can win if Mighty Casey, Mudville’s star player, gets up to bat.
Synopsis: A baseball team from the fictional town of Mudville (implied to be the home team) is losing by two runs with two outs in their last inning. It has become one of the best-known poems in American literature.The poem was originally published anonymously (under the pen name “Phin”, based on Thayer’s college nickname, “Phineas”). “Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888” is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer.įirst published in The San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888, it was later popularized by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville performances.
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