#baseball!au

For the Steddie fans interested in celebrating Opening Day with some baseball player Steve, may I recommend...

Glory Days (They'll Pass You By)

After receiving tickets to the Chicago Cubs game, Eddie Munson is surprised to find that their star catcher, Steve Harrington, is a fan and not at all what Eddie expected from a professional athlete. As Eddie gets a glimpse into the person behind the [catcher's] mask, will he strike out looking, or hit a home run?

Lloyd x (Doll-like) Reader

It was a loud day, Lloyd got yelled at by Wu for his pitches being low, he forgot his homework, and he forgot his lunch. His day was not good. Walking in the hallway to head to the cafeteria, he heard small humming. So naturally, he followed the sound. Once he approached the empty classroom he saw where the sound came from. He saw you, sitting cross legged, with your leg warmer and your folded skirt. You continue eating not noticing his eyes on you. Lloyd continued to look until he felt a hand on his shoulder. “Come on let’s go to lunch, it’s on me.” Zane replied, as he pulled Lloyd away from the door. He took one last glance at you and saw your eyes meeting his.

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LMFAOOO <3 the core of the au is patrick (designated hitter 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️) and Art (pitcher 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️) of an MLB team <3 you’re their cute little girlfriend who is officially with Art but there are Many pap pictures of patrick grabbing your ass or leaning in oddly close while the three of you are out <3

I thought abt Patrick hitting a walk off grand slam and pointing his bat at you in the crowd before smugly jogging the bases and taking in all of the attention <3

@fawnnpaws thought of Art winking at you before throwing a nasty fuckin curve ball <3

This is from the last chapter of my Jaylos baseball!au, “How Can You Not Get Romantic About Baseball?”, that I’m SOOOO close to finishing:

Harry struts away proudly, chin tipped and erupting in a boisterous laugh that makes Jay jump a little as he scowls at the boy’s back. He shakes his head then and turns himself slowly back towards the table. When he finally looks up, he sees Carlos staring at him. His lips are still tipped in a frown, but Jay can’t help focusing on those beautiful brown eyes, furrowed with what looks like more curiosity than anger.

“Um, guess I owe you an apology,” he chuckles weakly, trying a small smile. Carlos is still staring him down, but Jay keeps stretching out his features, exaggerating a grin so wide that Carlos sputters, breaking into a tiny chuckle when Jay waggles his eyebrows too.

“You have a beautiful smile,” Jay admits, basking happily as the heat rises in Carlo’s face.  He turns away quickly, dropping his head and letting a few curls fall over his pinking cheeks. But Jay can still see a trace of that smile on his lips.

Yay for Harringrove bugs! It's okay to take breaks from your hobbies. I call myself an artist even though I -maybe- make one thing a year haha

Baseball is super rough on joints so maybe Billy's a pitcher (he's chunky 💗so no one expected it in the beginning of his career) but he couldn't afford to get the fancy Tommy John Surgery for his elbow, so there went his chances at a longer career.

Billy begins to pick up some of his old habits of doing WAY too many things at the same time (drinking, smoking, music, tv, and lifting weights at the same time, you know), so Max ropes him into being an assistant coach for her softball team. He whines the entire time. Softball pitches are weird. Why is the ball bigger when a girl can hit the same damn sized ball?

Thing is, girls are nicer to each other than boys are. On teams, men are encouraged to develop family dynamics, but there's constant ribbing, and in the big leagues, a team is a business. And that hovers over everyone's heads like a doom cloud raining on occupational longevity.

But here, the girls bring spare socks and hair ties for each other. As well as other stuff that Billy, the man of the group, respectfully looks away from.

And yeah, that one player who has a bossy streak to rival Billy's is a loudmouth who needs to chill the hell out, but. Well. Maybe that's why Max bullied him into this. Billy can spot the "problem kids" a mile away.

Team Nights are movie nights for bonding and, admittedly, to cut the players' free time in half so they don't have enough time to get bored and get themselves into trouble. Frankly, during away games, they are their own horde of chaos, but again: Billy. He keeps them in check faster than Max. Which is a blessing because Max's anger is really something to behold.

Enter: Steve. Baby-sitter extraordinaire and now a full-time nanny for like 4 families. Two of which have teenagers on the team, so he drops them off and picks them up from the Team Nights -

And Billy becomes very distracted.

"A male nanny can't be straight, right?"

Max's eyes rolled in her kitchen while stirring in seasoning into the massive pot of popcorn. "I think you're praying for some kind of stereotype. Or you're thirsty for a husband, finally."

"Finally?" he growled.

Fast forward to the team winning some big State championship. Max and Billy get raises to their paychecks, and it turns out that one Steve Harrington is extremely bisexual and gets paid very well.

He pays for Billy's elbow surgery. Technically, he doesn't need it anymore, but he still uses his body a lot. Their first date probably involved Billy using the speedometer to show off his pitches, therein injuring himself and activating Steve's over protectiveness.