The poem “Casey at the Bat,” written by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, is about a baseball player named Casey. Casey plays for the mudville team and they’re losing. When it’s Casey’s turn everyone thinks he will save the game and that they will win. When he comes up to bat he strikes out and the mudville team ends up losing. It’s clear that Casey let his team down because he was too confident in himself.
Casey is over-confident in himself because he thinks that there is no way that he will strike out. According to the text, Casey missed the first two balls on purpose! Casey said, “That ain’t my style,” and let the ball pass. This evidence proves that Casey was so overly confident that he didn’t even try when the first two balls were pitched. He thought that there was no way that he would miss the last pitch and ruin it for the whole team. Casey thought that he would be the one person to save the game.
Even though Casey is a pretty good baseball player, he was careless, reckless and overconfident with the first 2 pitches. He didn’t pay attention to the first 2 pitches as they were thrown past him, he said “that aint my style” and watched as the ball passed. The author wants the readers to remember that Casey was overly confident in himself and that even the best players can make mistakes sometimes.