Eek-stra Innings

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Eek-stra Innings
Description
Publisher	DC Comics
Date published	September 2006
Part of	Scooby-Doo #112
# of pages	8
Writer	Sholly Fisch
Penciler	Robert W. Pope
Inker	Scott McRae
Colorer	Heroic Age
Letterer	Mike Sellers
Editor	Michael Siglain
Chronology
Previous story	Sinister Sounds II
Next story	Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Eek-Stra Innings is the first of three stories in Scooby-Doo #112, by DC Comics.

Premise

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Synopsis

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Characters

Main characters:

• Mystery Inc.
  • Scooby-Doo
  • Shaggy Rogers
  • Fred Jones
  • Daphne Blake
  • Velma Dinkley

Supporting characters:

• Sammy Dominguez ^{(only appearance)}
• Vern ^{(only appearance)}
• Longshot Loredo ^{(only appearance)}
• Klass ^{(only appearance)}
• Coach Stage ^{(only appearance)}

Villains:

• Ghost of Rube Bluth ^{(only appearance)(Dick Tater's disguise)}
• Dick Tater ^{(only appearance)}

Other characters:

• Beantown Bombers ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}
• Newark Colonials ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}
• Crowd ^{(only appearance)(miscellaneous speaking)}
• Rube Bluth ^{(mentioned)(deceased)}

Locations

• Baseball stadium

Objects

• TBA

Vehicles

• None

Suspects

Suspect	Motive/reason
Longshot Loredo	A crooked gambler who could try to fix the game.
Coach Stage	To eliminate the Beantown Bombers, so the Newark Colonials would win.
Sammy Dominguez	He was going to move to the Newark Colonials next season.

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Dick Tater as the Ghost of Rube Bluth	To scare out the Bombers because he bet money on the Colonials.

Notes/trivia

• This is yet another baseball centred story following the Scooby-Doo issue 37's "Witch Pitch".

Reprints

• Scooby-Doo Annual 2013 (UK) (2012)

Cultural references

• Rube Bluth is a parody of Babe Ruth.

Coloring mistakes

• None known.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

• There is another professional baseball team called "Bombers" whom are not the Beantown Bombers, to be introduced in Scooby-Doo issue 120's "Home Run Haunting".

Reception

The first mystery is a winner. The ghost is a fun phantom based on a famous ball player. The gist of its attack involves a famous sports curse. It's so famous that although I have little interest in sports not involving volleyballs and women in bikinis even I have heard of this curse.

Fisch peppers the proceedings with mangled monikers that fit Robert Pope's and Scott McCrae's mimicked batters. His mystery dusts off the plate with a decidedly fairplay call. While the Gang in perfect character find the score, Scooby and Shaggy fill their stomachs and accidentally send the ghost to the showers. Yeeeeeeeer out!