Since I don't know what word is underlined, I will just list everything. 'Marty' is a noun, 'sensed' a verb, 'his' pronoun, 'baseball' noun, 'team' noun, 'was' verb, 'in' preposition, 'trouble' noun.
it allows the reader to feel empathy towards the scene or what is going on, it begins to reveal a message and depending on how its given, it shows what is going on without actually saying what's happening