What best explains the "sickly silence" that falls on the mudville fans in the first stanza? a. casey is coming to bat. b. their team is not even trying to win the game. c. their team is very close to losing the game. d. casey does not swing at the two first pitches.

Choose the sentence that is not logically connected in the paragraph. (1) doctor henderson was a kind and gentle man. (2) his patients loved and respected him. his death made many of them sad. (3) as a young man, he decided to become a doctor and pursue a life of healing and comforting. (4) his work will long be remembered by the citizens of battle creek, michigan.