Today in the book, it talked about how Danny came to live in National City with his sister Sophie. After watching kids playing Home-run Derby, He finally came to play himself. The person up before he went up, another kid named Uno had gotten 6 straight homeruns. When Danny came up to bat, he was hitting them farther and more often than Uno. Out of frustration, his brother, Manny, came up to taunt Danny and try to get him to fail. On the back swing of his hit, Danny accidently hit Manny in the face.
This made Uno really frustrated. He went up to Danny and floored him, knocking him out. The way the book wrote it, it made it seem like Uno hit him because Danny hit Manny in the face. But I don't quite think that's why Uno decided to hit him. I think that Uno was frustrated that the new kid was so much better than him. He's a bit of a sore loser. Danny hitting it twice as much as he was! I also think that the reason he hit him was also shown a little bit before he actually hit him. When Uno threw a ball right at Danny before he actually hit him. I think that really showed how Uno feels about Danny beating his record.
But I don't think that it was only because was doing so much better than he was. The book really showed how much Uno really likes Manny. He did the chicken dance, and he really liked how Manny would cheer him on. The author even kept mentioning about how Uno kept enjoying Manny's noises and his "Hey batter batter swing!" 's. It also really showed how angry he was when he saw that Danny was hit. It also showed how caring he was to help Manny when he was hurting.
I think there wasn't just one reason why Uno hit Danny. I think it was just a mix of the bad things that were happening that day.
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