''[[https://caseyatb.com/ Casey at the Bat]]'' is a gay-themed, sports-focused webcomic created by Bob Glasscock. After a five-year relationship, Casey Wilkes's boyfriend leaves him by surprise and moves to another city. Casey tries to get his groove back by reconnecting with old friends, joining an amateur softball league, and making new friends. Cue new opportunities, new romance... and new drama, when he finds himself facing the chance of a new relationship that he might not be ready for.

Not to be confused with [[Literature/CaseyAtTheBat the 1888 poem with the same title]].

!! Tropes found in "Casey at the Bat":


%%* AgeGapRomance: Tom is quite prone to these.
* AllGaysArePromiscuous: Well, when they are single. When they find themselves in a relationship most of them keep things monogamous.
* AllJustADream: Right before Wally departs for Chicago, Casey has a long ''Franchise/StarWars'' inspired dream about losing him just like he lost Tom.
* AmIJustAToyToYou: When Joey confronts Casey about his lack of commitment.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Casey tries this with Joey. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]
* BelatedLoveEpiphany: Casey gets this towards Joey.
%%* BenevolentBoss: Dougie towards his employees at the bakery
* BetaCouple: Spencer and George are married, commited, and refreshingly free of drama while everybody else is doing a DatingDoSiDo.
* CampGay: Wally Woodcock, a professional piano player that tours as part of a teather ensemble.
* CardboardBoxOfUnemployment: When Joey loses his job at the cable company he's seen with this.
* CareerEndingInjury: Spence was an Olympic gymnast until he suffered from an injury [[UnreliableNarrator that grows bigger every time he narrates the story]] that put an end to his dreams.
* CastFullOfGay: 99% of the characters are gay men.
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: 90% of the characters are gay men, into sports, and athletic.
* DerailingLoveInterests: Pete gets the short end of the stick in his relationship with Joey.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The first big trouble Casey has with Wally is that Wally is too absorbed in his work and performance to pay attention to him. A similar issue caused the breakup of Casey with Tom... and the breakup of Wally with his prior boyfriend Trevor.
* FieryRedhead: Spence is a ginger with quite a short temper. Averted with Wally, who is just as ginger and very chill.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: After his breakup with Tom, Casey spends a long time not being ready to date again.
* FlyingUnderTheGaydar: Inverted for Troy, who goes to Spence and George's wedding passing as Casey's date, even if he's straight.
%%%* GayConservative: George is mentioned as a Republican.
%%* GymBunny: Most of the cast.
%%* HappilyMarried: George and Spencer.
* IDontWantToRuinOurFriendship: Casey uses this as an excuse to not get together with Joey. [[spoiler:then he ends up ruining the friendship anyway.]]
* LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Pete is showing up to do this after he breaks up with Joey.
* LostLoveMontage: We get one of these with Casey and Tom.
* LoveBubbles: Used several times.
* MistakenForCheating: During the wedding chapter, everyone thinks Casey cheated on Troy with Wally. In an unusual case of this trope, he actually slept with Wally, but it's not cheating because he and Troy are not together.
* NoRomanticResolution: Casey and Joey get this. They are both happily dating other people, but what could have been between them is never addressed.
* ObliviousToLove: Joey spent a long time blissfully unaware that Zack had feelings for him.
* OnceASeason: The yearly Eurovision and Christmas strips.
* ReallyGetsAround: In a cast where EverybodyHasLotsOfSex, Dougie stands out as having zero relationship commitments... and a different guy for each time. Including once a pair of twins.
* RefugeInAudacity: In the A Night Out arc, Zack introduces himself as Joey's boyfriend when Joey isn't even sure they're in a date. [[spoiler: It works.]] At the beginning of the same arc, Pete just takes Spence for drinks and texts Spence's husband George not to wait up.
* RelationshipUpgrade: When Wally introduces Casey as his boyfriend.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Out of the blue Russ introduces his new boyfriend, Logan, who looks almost exactly like Casey.
* SexEqualsLove: How things started for Casey and Wally.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: "There is no this between Joey and I! We're thisless!"
* SorkinRelationshipMoment: Casey and Tom are unable to be chill around each other.
* StalkerWithACrush: Zack has signs of this towards Joey.
* StraightGay: Nearly all of the characters are mostly this. They have their shades of camp, but the only one that may qualify as CampGay would be Wally.
* SuperRinger: Guys in the hockey league wonder if Joey is one of these.
* SweetBaker: Dougie is hands down one of the nicest characters in the strip.
* TwiceShy: Basically, what happened with Casey and Joey.
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Casey is a shopaholic, so he always has a huge reserve of clothes to choose from.
* WebcomicTime: The long updating intervals make this necessary. For example, chapter 15 takes place in a single night and 20 strips that took ten months to upload. Similarly, the two days in Spencer and George's wedding took eight months in real life.
* WhiteCollarWorker: Casey, Troy, and the rest of his coworkers.
* WhoNeedsOverTime: Casey forces this at the end of the hockey game in the wedding arc, by scoring a goal [[TakeAThirdOption while all the other players are debating whether to have overtime or not.]]
* YourFavorite: Wally knows Casey's favorite music and plays it at a bar.