Three Strikes

Sword and Scale Nightmares

Incongruity

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.8 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A shocking news headline sends minor league baseball player Blake Bivens home in a hurry. Something was happening in his hometown in Virginia and he feared the worst. A tragedy struck that affected the whole community and would change his life forever.

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0:00.0	On August 27th, 2019, Blake Bivens was in a Tennessee hotel room.
0:14.2	He was a pitcher for the Montgomery Biscuits, finishing up a five-game series against the
0:19.7	Chattanooga lookouts.
0:22.2	The Biscuits were a double-a-feeder team, affiliated with the Major League team the Tampa Bay
0:27.9	Rays.
0:29.7	This always made Blake's summers busy with baseball.
0:35.3	The game on the previous day had been postponed due to rain, so Tuesday they had a double-header
0:41.6	scheduled.
0:43.1	Blake rolled over in bed and glanced out of the slight crack in the hotel room curtains
0:48.7	to see that it was another gray and overcast day.
0:52.8	He grabbed his cell phone.
0:55.2	It was 9 o'clock.
0:57.2	He looked for the usual morning text messages from his wife, but today there were none.
1:04.1	He needed to get up and prepare for the short bus ride to the game, but first he decided
1:09.6	to take a moment to wake up and scroll through his social media.
1:15.1	Blake had barely started scrolling when the headline of a post caught his eye.
1:21.7	Right at the top of the feed was a news headline that he just couldn't wrap his mind around.
1:30.6	And little did he know that his life would never be the same because of it.
1:48.6	Welcome to sword and scale nightmares, true crime for bedtime.
1:53.6	When nightmare begins now.
2:14.7	Blake Bivens was 24 and living his dream.
2:19.1	He was picked in the fourth round of the major league baseball draft right out of Danville
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