The 9-year-old girl who gets lost in the woods in Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is Trisha McFarland.
Trisha becomes separated from her mother and older brother during a family hike in the Maine woods. After leaving the trail, she tries to find her way back but travels deeper into the forest, carrying only limited food, water and a portable radio or Walkman.
Baseball helps Trisha endure the ordeal. She listens to Boston Red Sox games and follows relief pitcher Tom Gordon, whose presence becomes a source of comfort and imagined guidance. Her growing fear, exhaustion and illness blur the line between reality and hallucination.
Readers sometimes confuse Trisha with Stephen King characters such as Carrie White or Beverly Marsh, but those girls belong to different novels. Trisha is the central character of this 1999 psychological horror story, which focuses as much on survival and imagination as on the supernatural threat she believes is pursuing her.