In "The Slump," John Updike uses the national pastime, baseball, as the setting to explore one individual's frustration with the world. The story is told by a professional ballplayer who finds himself, for no identifiable reason, unable to hit as well as he once did. He thinks about why this might be, but not very deeply; for the most part, he accepts this slump as his fate and considers what it says about life in general. The story depicts the superstitious nature of athletes in the way that its narrator hopes for better days without having any hope that anything he can do would make his luck return.
The underlined verb in the sentence is have visited.In this case, the tense of the underlined verb is B. future perfect. Future perfect tense is used to refer to events that would have happened if a possible event has happened first. This is the case of how the verb is used in the sentence
