In the summer of 1962, awkward new kid Scotty Smalls moves into a Los Angeles neighborhood and knows absolutely nothing about baseball. After local legend Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez takes him under his wing, Smalls joins a ragtag group of sandlot players and spends the summer learning the game, making friends, and surviving childhood adventures involving rival teams, pool crushes, chewing tobacco, carnival rides, and a terrifying backyard dog known as “The Beast.” But when Smalls accidentally uses his stepdad’s Babe Ruth-signed baseball, the boys launch an all-out rescue mission that turns a neighborhood myth into a summer they will never forget.