Cat Sebastian is such an incredible writer. I don't think anything can top the perfection that is We Could Be So Good, but dang - this comes close.

Also the baseball - the love of baseball - just oozes off the pages. Many books marketed as sports romances use sports as window dressing: a MMC is a hockey player in name only. It's arbitrary what sport they play, really, it's just an indicator to the reader that they're hot. But baseball matters here, and it's clear how much love Sebastian has for the game.

". . . nobody has ever written about baseball without it being a metaphor of some kind or another . . . Now, though, [Mark] thinks that the game may have earned  those metaphors. It's slow and often seems pointless. It's beautiful, when it isn't a mess. There's a vast ocean of mercy for mistakes: getting hits half the time is nothing short of a miracle, and even the best fielders are expected to have errors. The inevitability of failure is built into the game."