Rubén Blades's song "La Segunda mitad del Noveno" speaks mainly about hope, when everything is against you, never give up, so this song-writer makes the game of baseball as a metaphor, when you go for the second half of the ninth (the title of this song) and the game is against you, you must decide what to do, not just talk and plan and do nothing, we must act. In the last verse of this song says, “playball says the "umpire". In this particular part I think the author is trying to say wake up! There´s still hope.