The year 2006. The College Baseball Championship. The second half of the ninth inning. After hitting a solo homer, left outfielder Zhijie dove... More

The year 2006. The College Baseball Championship. The second half of the ninth inning. After hitting a solo homer, left outfielder Zhijie dove acrobatically and caught a fly ball. Overjoyed, Taichang the catcher and rest of the champion team dashed toward the mound and tossed Shenghong the pitcher into the air to congratulate him on the perfect game he had just pitched. When the jubilation died down, they discovered Zhijie was still lying in the outfield, his arm broken when he raced backward to intercept the hit. Three years later, with his arm injuries still plaguing him, Zhijie met with little success in his baseball career. Working as a janitor at a batting practice range, he occasionally gave a few pointers to youngsters working on their swings. One day, word reached him that his coach, who treated him like a son, had died of cancer. At the coach’s funeral, Zhijie ran into Changtai. The two chitchatted about Shenghong, who was now a player in Japan’s pro baseball league. Speculation was running rampant that Shenghong might not get his contract renewed the next season as a result of his declining performance. Afterwards, the coach’s daughter told them the old man’s last wish was to have one of them coach a high school baseball team. The three ex-teammates end up coaching a high school team. But how are these three men, each with his own emotional baggage, going to put a badly beaten team back in fighting form? How are they going to resolve the rivalry among themselves?  Close