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Twelve Times Yes — A Song Inspired by Kansas City Royals infielder Tyler Tolbert ties an MLB record by collecting hits in 12 consecutive plate appearances, turning repetition and contact into a surreal baseball streak.

Jul 08, 2026

📖 The Story

Tyler Tolbert tied an MLB record by collecting hits in 12 consecutive plate appearances, turning a hot streak into a shared dugout ritual.

The source story: Kansas City Royals infielder Tyler Tolbert ties an MLB record by collecting hits in 12 consecutive plate appearances, turning repetition and contact into a surreal baseball streak.. Galaxy Transmissions translated that headline into a song about Momentum becomes a room everyone can hear counting..

Musically, the track leans into clubhouse power-pop funk with stop-start dugout tension, using the sound palette as part of the reporting: not just what happened, but what it felt like.

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💜 Emotional Core

Dominant

Momentum becomes a room everyone can hear counting.

Secondary

The ordinary act of making contact keeps crossing the line into disbelief.

Counter

Anyone who has had a rare run of yes after too many noes knows the terror of stepping up one more time.

🌊 Metaphor Seeds

the streak as a live wire

baseballs as little white moons

the dugout rail as a held-breath metronome

chalk lines opening like gates

the count as a spell nobody wants to scare away

🎸 The Sound

clubhouse power-pop funk with stop-start dugout tension

clubhouse power-pop funk, snapping snare, organ stabs, slap bass, handclap backbeat, baritone lead vocal, crowd-shouted refrain, clean riff guitar, scoreboard synth blips, stop-start groove, joyful tension

clubhouse power-pop funk snapping snare organ stabs slap bass handclap backbeat baritone lead vocal crowd-shouted refrain clean riff guitar scoreboard synth blips stop-start groove joyful tension

🎶 Music Lessons Used

Bob Dylan Like a Rolling Stone Electric folk-rock organ rupture

📝 Lyrics

[Intro]
Again, again, again, again
Hands on the rail, do not tell the wind

[Verse]
We counted with our knuckles underneath the rail
One found daylight, two left a trail
Three made the pine tar smell like rain
Four put a grin on the mouth of the game

[Pre-Chorus]
Five was a spark, six was a door
Seven made the quiet ask for more

[Chorus]
Twelve times yes, keep it off your tongue
The streak is a wire and the wire is young
Twelve times yes, let the whole bench sway
The little white coin found green all day

[Verse]
Eight came grinning, nine came thin
Ten made the room forget where it had been
Eleven walked in with a crooked crown
Twelve knocked every no to the ground

[Bridge]
Do not call it easy, do not call it fate
Pressure has teeth when it waits at the plate
We held our breath till the seams went by

[Final Chorus]
Twelve times yes, say it now, say it loud
Twelve sparks jumping through a held-breath crowd
Twelve times yes, and the rail gave way
We slapped the rhythm till the doubt lost its name

[Tag]
Again, again, again, again
The little white moon came back again
Again, again, again, again
Twelve times yes, then yes again

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