Close to Home Recap: Baseball Murder
When one young teenager feels that he loses a playoff game for his team,. he takes a baseball bat to the head of another young teenager on the other team, who he felt won the game for his team. It just so happens that they are - or at least were - friends, which makes the killing all the stranger.
While most of the prosecuting team wants to forge ahead with full charges as an adult, Annabeth wants to get to the bottom of things and figure out why a generally good kid would suddenly go berserk and lose it in such a manner, killing someone who formerly was such a good friend. Of course, he didn't mean to kill him, he just wanted to vent his rage. It doesn't help that the boy's parents want to pass it off as a phase the kid is going through.
Eventually Annabeth's efforts pay off as she finds a trend where the coach encourages his team towards violence, with the former pitcher having refused to throw at the same boy just one game before, and quitting the team because of it. Several members of the team had no problems before joining the team but now have criminal records. In the end, the boy has to do time, but the coach gets what's coming to him in the form of a charge of his own.

















