Major League Baseball should just go ahead book a spot for Tatum Frisby in the National Pitch Hit and Run finals every year.

Frisby, a seventh grader at Hilldale Middle School, leaves for Toronto, Canada on Friday to compete in the finals for the fifth time, looking for her third title.

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