The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.

"Danny Connelly, the Dulaney Orioles' back-up pitcher, must step up to the plate and out of his brother's shadow to become the dependable closer his team needs"--

Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.

Fourth-graders Ellie and Colt have been best friends since kindergarten, but when Colt starts treating Ellie badly and even ignores her younger, deaf brother, she wonders if she should continue to pray for a horse for Colt, as she has been ever since she got her own horse.

It's one, two, three strikes, you're out, as the Cream Puffs seek sweet revenge!