Ainsley Griner stood at bat.

While waiting for the next pitch, she heard the heckling from some of the players on the opposing team.

The reason for the heckling?

Griner is a girl, and not just any girl. She’s the first girl to play on the varsity baseball team for the Utah Military Academy-Camp Williams Marauders.

Griner’s younger brother Tate Griner, a sophomore, plays on the team, too. That’s how she found out the team was down a few players.

“So I came down here and I just put on my cleats, and I just started playing,” she said.

That one practice was enough for head coach Aaron Tilley.

“I wanted her on the team the first time I saw her throw a baseball,” he said.

After practice that day, Ainsley Griner called her mother, Sara Clark, to tell her she’d made the team.

“I got a cal

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