The Benchwarmers (2006)
“The game of baseball has always been play with dignity and grace, until now……”
When a nerdy boy named Nelson is playing around in the baseball field, group of bullies came and bully him. Gus, Clark, and Richie run after the bullies and end up challenge them to play baseball for the field. The game that is played by 9 kids and 3 adults won by Gus, Clark, and Richie. Nelson’s father, Mel, who watched the game fascinate by their play. He invite the three of them to play in a league, which the winners will be given access to a new multi-million dollar baseball park that he’s building. So that if they win the tournament, kids like Nelson will get respect.
To present the kids, they form “The Benchwarmer Team” which consists of three adult players, Gus, Clark and Richie, which will play against 9 kids per team.
In the middle of the league, Gus, the star of the team got kicked off. The star that has given hope and inspired the nerd kids in town apparently had bully a guy named Marcus and that cause him brought to the institution. By the suggestion of Gus’s wife, he asked Marcus an apology. In the final game, Gus, Richie and Clark did not play, they give a chance to the Nelson team to play. Marcus becomes their third-base coach. Even though they loose with 42-1 as the final score.
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