he bent to pick up the hammer , then whirled around so clumsily he almost fell , sure that the wolf would be on its feet and coming for him again ; there was no way he could have gotten it with the hammer like that , absolutely no way , that baby had been going high , your muscles remembered what it felt like when you 'd uncorked one that was going all the way to the backstop , they remembered it very well but the wolf lay where it had fallen .