Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: baseball game is going on in New York City at Polo Grounds between visiting Gas-House Gorillas and home team, Fact2: depiction of frieze on top deck was borrowed from Yankee Stadium, Fact3: Bugs Bunny is fed up with unfair game and Gas-House Gorillas playing dirty watching from hole in outfield, Fact4: Bugs selects bat For first time up literal hybrid of bat and boy, Fact5: umpire appears over edge of roof calling out Gorilla player
Output (English): A baseball game is going on in New York City at the Polo Grounds but the depiction of the frieze on the top deck was borrowed from Yankee Stadium, between the visiting GasHouse Gorillas and the home team, the Tea Totallers. The game is not going well for the home team as the Gorillas, a group of oversized roughnecks, are not only dominating the Tea Totallers, made up of old men, but intimidating the umpire by knocking him into the ground like a tent peg after an unpopular judgment. The Gorillas home runs go screaming, literally, out of the ballpark and the batters form a conga line, each hitter whacking a ball out. Bugs Bunny, watching from his hole in the outfield, is fed up with the unfair game and the GasHouse Gorillas playing dirty. He talks trash against the Gorillas, claiming that he could win the game singlehanded with an endless barrage of home runs. He loses a bit of his bravado when he suddenly gets surrounded by the Gorillas. They force him to take up his own challenge and, as a result, Bugs now has to play all the positions on the opposing team, including speeding from the mound to behind the plate to catch his own pitches. Bugs throws his fastball so hard that it zips by the Gorillas batter but, as he catches it, he is propelled off screen, crashing into the backstop. In the course of his dual role, he shouts encouraging words to the pitcher before going back to the mound to make the next pitch, then returning to home plate to catch it. Next, Bugs decides to perplex em with his slowball, throwing a pitch so slow that three Gorillas in a row strike out attempting to hit it. For his first time up, Bugs selects a bat from the batboy, a literal hybrid of a bat and a boy. As promised, Bugs starts smacking the ball. On the first pitch, he makes a long hit, dashing around the bases while also showing off for the crowd, only to find a grinning Gorilla holding the ball just ahead of the plate. To allow himself to score his first run, Bugs pulls out a pinup poster, which distracts the Gorilla player. The scoreboard now shows the Gorillas as the home team, with 96 runs, and Bugs batting in the top of the fifth with one run so far. Bugs hits another one deep, and while rounding the bases, a Gorilla ambushes the plate umpire and puts on his uniform. Bugs slides into home, obviously safe, but the fake umpire calls him out. Bugs gets in his face, actually behind the umpire mask, and argues the call, pulling his timehonored wordswitching gag until the umpire ends up demanding that Bugs accept the safe call or go to the showers. Bugs gives in, and the fauxumpire gets wise too late as the board flashes another run. Bugs hammers the next pitch on a line drive that bounces off each Gorilla with a ping sound as in a pinball game. The scoreboard then blinks a random series of numbers and the word Tilted. The story jumps ahead to the final inning, announced by a radiostyle jingle, with Bugs leading 96–95, the Gorillas having lost a run somewhere along the way. Blancs voice is now heard as the announcer as the radio booth has lost its original playbyplay man. With two outs in the last of the ninth, a Gorilla is on base and another, menacingly swinging a bat he has just fashioned from a huge tree, is ready for the pitch. Bugs proceeds with a tremendous windup, lets the pitch go, and the ball is rocketed out of the stadium. Startled, Bugs desperately gives chase. He grabs a cab and is almost led astray until he realizes a Gorilla is driving it; he jumps out and catches a bus which takes him to the Umpire State Building. He takes an elevator to the roof, climbs a flagpole, throws his glove in the air and manages to catch the ball. An umpire appears over the edge of the roof, calling out the Gorilla player who has followed Bugs there. The Statue of Liberty agrees with the call.