The SandLot

Characters

Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez -- is the leader of the group the captain. He becomes Scotty smalls best friend and teaches him how to play baseball. Also, gets him out of the biggest pickle he will ever get himself into.

Scotty Smalls -- doesn't know how to play baseball. When he knocks his step dads signed baseball by Babe ruth into the yard over, he's in a heap of trouble unless he can get it back. The only problem is the yard is protected by a big gorilla creature or so the boys think.

Then there is the other guys on the team: Michael "Squints" Palledorous, Kenny DeNunez, Hamilton "Ham" Porter, Tommy Timmons, Timmy Timmons, Alan "Yeah-Yeah" McClennan,

Bertram Grover Weeks. The helped with getting the ball back.

Plot

The SandLot begins with Scotty as a grown up walking in to a press box talking about the the 1943 world series. It is quoted in the movie,  The story goes that in the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs,a full count and the tying run on base, Babe Ruth raised his arm and pointed to the center field bleachers. No one believed it, because nobody had ever done it before. But The Babe was calling his shot. On the next pitch, the Great Bambino hit a towering home run. And even although he'd been a hero before that, that's pretty much how he became a legend." That's when Scotty talks about Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez  who gave him the best summer ever and got him out of the biggest pickle hes ever been it. Its the first day of summer and Scotty had no time to make friends. One day he saw that some boys went to the sandlot and decided to follow them there. Scotty stands out in the outfield and tries to catch a ball misses and everyone laughs at him he runs off home. The next day Scotty is sitting on the front porch looking at his broken glove when Benjamin Rodriguez walks up and asks if he wants to play ball with them. Scotty says no my mitt broke. Benjamin Rodriguez pulls a mix out of his back pocket and gives it to Scotty. They go down town off to the side of a building and Benjamin introduces everyone to Scotty this is when he gets the nickname smalls. They head to the sandlot, they hit the ball in to some bushes Scotty runs after it and goes in the bush to get the ball. This is where he sees the fence shake grabs the ball and runs back out where the boys are waiting for him to throw the ball back. Scotty tries to throw it and fails, then picks up the ball and runs it to home then runs back to the outfield.  Benjamin runs out and to talk to Scotty and says that he can catch it. Scotty disagrees and says hes going home. Benjamin stops him and talks to him the scene went something like this:

Benjamin: Hey, hey. You think too much.

Benjamin: I bet you get straight A's and shit, huh?

Scotty Smalls: No, I got a "B" once.

Scotty Smalls: Actually an A-minus. But it should've been a "B."

Benjamin: Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking.

Benjamin: You just have fun.

Benjamin explains that throwing a baseball is like throwing paper. Scotty asks how to catch it? Benjamin says just hold your arm way out in the air he'll take care of it. He runs back to home and hits the ball in the air and just like that it lands in Scotty's glove. He throws in the pitcher and from that point on all the boys are cool with him. The next day Ham hits the ball over the fence and all the boys are mad at him because now they can't play anymore. Scotty doesn't think its a big deal and goes to jump the fence. The other boys run after him and pull him off the fence. Ask ask him what he was doing? Asks if was trying to get killed? Scotty explains that he was going to get the ball. The boys explained that he can't go over there, he asks why and they tell him to go look in the hole in the fence. Scotty looks in the hole and a big paw swipes the ball. He Scotty asks when it was. They decide to camp out in the tree  house that is on the sandlot to explain the story. They explain it as a gorilla beast that use to protect the junk yard. The police had to retire the dog because he was to good at his job. Mr. Mertle asked how long he had to keep the beast tied up they said for-ever for-ever. Scotty said that they were joking they didn't believe them, but they said stick your head out the window and look down. Scotty looked out the window and learned that over 100 balls went over the fence and he didn't see a solid one they were gone.

The next day when the boys were playing ball and the league team came to see the boys from the Sandlot and they start talking trash to each other and by the end of it they agreed to a game the next day.

The Sandlot kids won, really they beat the crap out of them. They all went out for victory at the fair when they all decide to chew tobacco and go on a ride. That was a big mistake because they all end up barfing their brains out. After that night they decide to just stick with Bazooka. The day they all got back to play baseball Benjamin hit the ball so hard he tore the cover off the ball. Everyone was outstayed except Benjamin because now they can't play anymore. That's when Scotty says he has a ball and swipes his step dads baseball singed by Babe Ruth. Scotty was up to bat he hit the ball over the fence. Scotty was freaking out no one understood why until he told them. Everyone was shocked that he was going to play with a ball that was singed by Babe Ruth. Scotty didn't know who he was and everyone was shocked. They started from square one, first they got a ball and wrote Babe Ruth on it. To fool his mom, his step dad was on a business trip in Chicago. Then they tried all sorts of different things to get the baseball back, but the dog kept destroying everything they tried. Spoiler Alter Then one night Benjamin had a dream where he met Babe Ruth. Babe gave him some advice. "Everybody gets one chance to do something great. Most people never take the chance, either 'cause they're too scared...or they don't recognize it when it spits on their shoes". The next day Benjamin told everyone he was going to get the ball. He jumped the fence and grabbed the ball and ran all over town and ended up back at the sandlot in the end the fence fell on the dog, but didn't kill him. Scotty and Benjamin helped pull the fence off of the dog. The dog didn't attack them, but licked them. They returned the dog and the man asked why they just didn't knock on the door he would of gotten it for him. Scotty said sorry and the man traded him a ball that was worth more than his ball. He said that he would clean up the mess if they came and talked baseball with him. They agreed. In the end they learned the dog name was Hercules and Scotty's dad only grounded him for a week when he learned he stole his baseball. Instead for the rest of his life. In the end Benjamin got the nickname Benny-the-jet and it stuck with him for the rest of his life. Flashes back to when Scotty is an adult and is announcing for a baseball game and on the field is no other then his friend Benjamin

Favorite quote of movie: "Your killing me smalls!"


My opinion of the movie
I love the sandlot even though I don't know a lot about baseball. That doesn't matter the story line is great a priceless baseball that got knocked into the clutches of a beast. In the end everything turns out to be fine. Out of everything my favorite thing in this movie is the quotes. This movie always makes me laugh and my cousins and I always act out scenes from it. It's just one of those movies that never get old no matter how old you get.

Favorite song from movie



Resources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0VARef7k_U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVscCNZsYSY
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2857096192/tt0108037?ref_=tt_ov_i#
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUM23-nivFY