Webcomic / Casey at the Bat

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 the 1888 poem with the same title.

Tropes found in "Casey at the Bat":

• All Gays are Promiscuous: Well, when they are single. When they find themselves in a relationship most of them keep things monogamous.
• All Just a Dream: Right before Wally departs for Chicago, Casey has a long Star Wars inspired dream about losing him just like he lost Tom.
• Am I Just a Toy to You?: When Joey confronts Casey about his lack of commitment.
• Anguished Declaration of Love: Casey tries this with Joey. It doesn't work.
• Belated Love Epiphany: Casey gets this towards Joey.

• Beta Couple: Spencer and George are married, commited, and refreshingly free of drama while everybody else is doing a Dating Do-Si-Do.
• Camp Gay: Wally Woodcock, a professional piano player that tours as part of a teather ensemble.
• Cardboard Box of Unemployment: When Joey loses his job at the cable company he's seen with this.
• Career-Ending Injury: Spence was an Olympic gymnast until he suffered from an injury that grows bigger every time he narrates the story that put an end to his dreams.
• Cast Full of Gay: 99% of the characters are gay men.
• Cast Full of Pretty Boys: 90% of the characters are gay men, into sports, and athletic.
• Derailing Love Interests: Pete gets the short end of the stick in his relationship with Joey.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: 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.
• Fiery Redhead: Spence is a ginger with quite a short temper. Averted with Wally, who is just as ginger and very chill.
• The First Cut Is the Deepest: After his breakup with Tom, Casey spends a long time not being ready to date again.
• Flying Under the Gaydar: Inverted for Troy, who goes to Spence and George's wedding passing as Casey's date, even if he's straight.

• I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: Casey uses this as an excuse to not get together with Joey. then he ends up ruining the friendship anyway.
• Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Pete is showing up to do this after he breaks up with Joey.
• Lost Love Montage: We get one of these with Casey and Tom.
• Love Bubbles: Used several times.
• Mistaken for Cheating: 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.
• No Romantic Resolution: Casey and Joey get this. They are both happily dating other people, but what could have been between them is never addressed.
• Oblivious to Love: Joey spent a long time blissfully unaware that Zack had feelings for him.
• Once a Season: The yearly Eurovision and Christmas strips.
• Really Gets Around: In a cast where Everybody Has Lots of Sex, Dougie stands out as having zero relationship commitments... and a different guy for each time. Including once a pair of twins.
• Refuge in Audacity: In the A Night Out arc, Zack introduces himself as Joey's boyfriend when Joey isn't even sure they're in a date. 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.
• Relationship Upgrade: When Wally introduces Casey as his boyfriend.
• Replacement Goldfish: Out of the blue Russ introduces his new boyfriend, Logan, who looks almost exactly like Casey.
• Sex Equals Love: How things started for Casey and Wally.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: "There is no this between Joey and I! We're thisless!"
• Sorkin Relationship Moment: Casey and Tom are unable to be chill around each other.
• Stalker with a Crush: Zack has signs of this towards Joey.
• Straight Gay: Nearly all of the characters are mostly this. They have their shades of camp, but the only one that may qualify as Camp Gay would be Wally.
• Super Ringer: Guys in the hockey league wonder if Joey is one of these.
• Sweet Baker: Dougie is hands down one of the nicest characters in the strip.
• Twice Shy: Basically, what happened with Casey and Joey.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: Casey is a shopaholic, so he always has a huge reserve of clothes to choose from.
• Webcomic Time: 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.
• White Collar Worker: Casey, Troy, and the rest of his coworkers.
• Who Needs Over Time: Casey forces this at the end of the hockey game in the wedding arc, by scoring a goal while all the other players are debating whether to have overtime or not.
• Your Favorite: Wally knows Casey's favorite music and plays it at a bar.