Which line from Brighton Beach Memoirs best helps the audience understand Eugene's perspective that he is treated unfairly? One pitch, Mom? I think I can get him to pop up. I have my stuff today. I got hit with a baseball right in the back of the skull, I saw two of everything for a week and I still had to carry a block of ice home every afternoon. How am I ever going to play for the Yankees with a name like Eugene Morris Jerome? You have to be a Joe… or a Tony… or Frankie… If only I was born Italian. My mother makes spaghetti with ketchup, what chance do I have?