A story’s climax is the point at which the conflict tension is at its highest point. As a book that has heavy amounts of sports and sporting competition in it, the climax isn’t anything that is likely unexpected to readers. Lonnie’s team wins the game. Readers that are sports fans are likely to think that winning a high tension and high stakes game is climax enough; however, Myers ratchets up the tension surrounding the game a great deal by having mob gambling money riding on the outcome of the game. In this case, Cal is supposed to bench Lonnie to help make sure that the team loses. Cal initially does this, but he eventually puts Lonnie in the game, and Lonnie helps lead the team to victory. This winning moment is the climax of the book, and it leads into the falling action of Cal being stabbed to death as a punishment for his actions.
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