Strike Three, You're Dead (Lenny & the Mikes)

Strike Three, You're Dead (Lenny & the Mikes) by Berk, Josh. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780375870088.

An Edgar Award Finalist Lenny Norbeck is a die-hard baseball lover. Unfortunately, hes no player himself (according to him, hes "the worst there ever was.") But hed make a heck of an announcer. He gets a lot of practice sitting with his best friends, Mike and Other Mike, watching Phillies games from their lawn couch—a sweet outdoor TV arrangement Mikes dad hooked them up with. Being a real announcer is his dream, and he gets his chance to prove himself when he enters an "Armchair Announcer" contest and wins. The prize: he gets to be the broadcaster, live, for one inning at a real Phillies game. The game goes very wrong, though. Before Lenny gets to do his inning, a young, promising pitcher fresh out of the minors literally drops dead on the mound. The official verdict is that he died of a heart attack, but Lenny has a hunch theres something more going on. So he and the Mikes set out to investigate. The suspects are many, and though the trio barks up the wrong tree a few times, they are always right on the heels of the real killer. . . .