Hell hath no fury like a winless all-girls baseball team.
After dropping their first three games in the annual youth baseball tournament at Cooperstown, New York, the WBL Sparks, the only all-girls team to ever compete in the tournament, took out their frustrations today on the Massapequa Cyclones, spanking the all-boys team in a mercy-rule, game-shorted, 4-inning contest by the score of 19-0.
Chelsea Baker got the shutout for the Sparks, a touring all-girls baseball team made up of female players from around the country.
Congratulations to Chelsea, as well as to her teammates: Michaela Carper, Abbey Donovan, Alyssa Rose Freeman, Jade Gortarez, Rachel Jones, Sara Lopez-Wheeler, Casey McCrackin, Kristen Moldovan, Nylah Ramirez, Jasmine Siegal, Shae-Lynn Simpson, Allie Spinney and Hannah Zamore.
While the boys got their pants beat off them in the game, Chelsea was also losing clothes. Her Plant City (Florida) Little League jersey is going to the Baseball Hall of Fame!
The only girl in her league, she posted a 12-0 record with two perfect games. When she wasn't whiffing the boys at the plate, she was playing third base, belting out five homeruns, posting a .604 batting average and helping lead her team to a 29-1 record.
In four years as a pitcher in Little League play, Chelsea never lost a game. ABC News recently chose her as their 'Person of the Week', with video clips showing her sending boys away from the plate in tears after striking out against her.
Chelsea compliments her near 70 MPH fastball with a knuckleball that her catcher describes as 'nasty' taught to her when she was only 8-years old by former major league pitcher Joe Niekro, who was helping coach Chelsea's little league team.
Just how good is Chelsea?
Keith Maxwell, a hitting instructor who played five years in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization and 12 years in professional baseball said, ''This is probably going to be the first girl to play Major League Baseball. And I don't say that lightly.''
With her jersey inclusion, Chelsea, 13, now has the distinction of being the youngest baseball player to be honored by the Hall of Fame.
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