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Four bullpen sessions had been written into Doc Alleyne’s file on four Mondays in April, and on every one of those Mondays the ballpark had been dark.

Winston “Doc” Alleyne has been the athletic trainer for the Chattanooga Riverkings for six years, and in twenty-one years in the game he has never had a page of his own work questioned. Then he pulls the club’s calendar against his own medical file and finds four supervised bullpen sessions logged under his credential, at one in the morning, on four off days, for a pitcher who was two thousand miles away. The machine that wrote them thought it was sitting in the Atlantic time zone.

What starts as a paperwork error becomes a question about a hand, and then about eleven people who came into this country hung off one man’s itinerary. Doc can prove what he knows. Proving it means handing over a form he signed in June that says he watched two things he did not watch.