In the previous MLB baseball screening hall, we once introduced a funny and bloody baseball movie "Major League". After reading this article, do you think that this strange team will be able to walk on the road of prosperity after winning the division championship by "making the heart go to one place and twisting it in one place"? It turns out that it is the most difficult thing to still be able to control the original intention after victory. Today we are going to introduce this interesting sequel movie: "Major League 2".
Review of previous events
It is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to defend the country
The Indians, who won the division championship last season, have a new season, and last year's playoffs have made the team highly anticipated by fans, and the team has ushered in many changes. The boss was replaced by Donn, who was the team's third baseman last season, and he also signed heavy gun catcher Berkman at the free market, while veteran catcher Jack Taylor had to take a second-line back to become a coach of the team because of a knee injury. Even if the heart is unwilling, but every professional baseball player's dream is to stand on the stage of the World Series, even if it is to contribute the most inconspicuous strength to the team, to do their best is the original intention of professional athletes.
However, last season's main players returned to the team not only in no state, but also in a ghostly state:
Pitcher Rick Vann, who is obsessed with his own business development and has lost his ball speed:
Fast-legged Hayes, who only wanted to be a heavy gunner after going to the movie off-season:
Soriano, the heavy gunner of "Peace & Love", who converted to other religions:
The same is only the same bad spring training as last season, and the team hastily started the new season in this unstable situation.
The team in this state naturally can't achieve good results, the ace pitcher is constantly blown up by the other side, the base king has been hitting the high fly ball and can't get on the base, the heavy gunner is even more heartless after hitting a pigeon, only the safety of the pigeon is concerned, only the newly signed catcher Birkman is superior, relying on his own heavy artillery fire to drag the team forward. Unstable factors continue to spread within the team and erupt at any time. Compared with last season's unpromising success, the team with higher expectations has lost its desire for victory, and the team seems to have reached the point of falling apart.
Contradictions erupted and fell to the bottom
When the team's new owner, Donn, found himself running out of all his savings, had to sell out the team's only fighting power, Berkman, and signed a new fielder from the Giants to make up for the lack of playing.
And this giant is not another giant, the debt-ridden Donn naturally can not trade the giants' star players, but from the Japanese giants to find a Japanese player Tanaka Hiroshi.
After some operation, Donne found that the finances had not improved, and the team still could not achieve good results, so he had to sell the team back to the former boss lady Donna, and the evil Donna returned to the team. The coach, who was also angry, suffered a heart attack and was admitted to the hospital, and had to ask Jack Taylor to lead the team through the rest of the season. As a rookie coach, Taylor has to face the mess in front of him. But the dream still stands in front of their eyes, no matter what, first find a way to adjust the state of the players, starting from the smallest change, step by step to the stage of the World Series.
The reality is harsh. Taylor's team is back to the same situation as last season, hoping that the team will lose so that the team will move to Miami's boss lady, bad players, angry fans, everything seems to be no worse, and the team has completely fallen to the bottom. The loss of the manager also made the players more unscrupulous, with Rick Fann and Hayes complaining about each other on the pitch and making a big fight, and other players joining the battle, the scene was very chaotic.
Breaking the boat and bottoming out
Just when the whole team seemed to be in a negative chain and things couldn't get any worse, the turnaround came. When they see the team's rookie catchers fighting hard to cherish their playing time, they seem to have found their former selves, recalling when they first joined the major leagues, recalling the time when they were almost released and sent down. It could be some kind of mechanism called bottoming out, and when they realized that only when everyone led by example could the team play to what it should be, the group of division champions came back!
The team's baseman, Hayes, is in full swing, accelerating at full speed with each base; "the player should be a warrior rather than a monk", Soriano was ignited by the new Japanese players, and the team's heavy gunners found their killer nature and constantly blasted the small white ball out of the field; only the "wild thing" Rick Vann, still can't find the speed of the fireball ball, became the team's drag bottle. What Rick Vann didn't understand was that baseball was a pure sport. Duels between pitches often can't be mixed with other complex ideas. Worrying about injury and thinking of prolonging their professional life is often the worship of the devil, but they are afraid of their hands and feet and cannot exert their own strength.
Fortunately, thanks to the excellent performance of their teammates, the Indians still managed to squeeze into the playoffs and made it all the way to the American League Championship Series.
Facing their rival White Sox, who swept through their opponents in last year's playoffs, everyone was not optimistic about the Indians' prospects for the World Series. Surprisingly, however, the Indians quickly won the first three games without bloodshed, and as long as they won one more game, they could enter the World Series, which was the most important moment in the history of the team. Unfortunately, in the fourth game, Rick Fann still performed badly, burying the team's hopes of sweeping the opponent. Former teammate Burkeman hit a goodbye home run against Rick Fann, and the trend of the entire series also came to the white Sox side, they won three games in a row, and the two sides came to a 3-3 situation.
“Win or go home”
In the seventh life-and-death game, the two sides were inextricably matched, and Hayes even made Ichiro Suzuki's classic home run to give the Indians a 3-2 lead in the bottom half of the fifth inning.
However, the White Sox Burkeman faced the old owner and his former teammates he despised, and hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning, once again giving the White Sox a 5-3 lead, and the whole stadium booed, but even the most loyal fans have begun to lose their temper, and the Indians' World Series dream is likely to come to an abrupt end because of this big home run.
Fortunately, not wasting every seat is the first condition for reversing the victory. Interim head coach Jack Taylor made a strange move in the eighth inning, knowing that the opposite pitcher liked the Sene corner, let the home batter stand closer to the home base, deliberately faced the inner corner to form a touch ball on the base, the team's strong baseball Soriano lived up to expectations, first using garbage words to deliberately lure the white Sox catcher strategy, and then hit a large three-point home run to give the team a 6-5 lead again.
The game moved back to the suffocating ninth inning, and Jack Taylor decided to send Rick Fann to close the scoring again. Rick Fann, who has been wearing a suit and leather shoes and a neat hairstyle all season, finally changed his mind the night before the game, put on a denim jacket jacket again, shaved into a punk hairstyle, put on the familiar black-rimmed glasses, accompanied by the debut music "Wild Thing" that made the fans bloody, Rick Fann was ready to win for the team again.
Faced with a two-out situation, Rick Vann chose to protect the White Sox batter, because the next stick was Berkman, and Rick Vann had to face the opponent's strongest hitter with his fastest ball speed.
On the first goal, Berkman missed with a swing of the bat, and the ball was 99 miles.
On the second goal, Burkeman followed the straight ball and hit it out of bounds.
Third goal, 102 miles! Breaking through 100 miles of fireball triple-strike Burkeman also sent the Indians to the stage of the World Series!
The film ends here, unfortunately, the original crew was not able to reunite to shoot the story of the third World Series, and fans did not have the opportunity to see Rick Fann standing on the stage of the World Series. However, reality and the world in the movie are so close, although the Indians entered the long-lost World Series in 2016, the Guangxu Bear became the insurmountable gap between them and the trophy. Today's Indians not only need to go through a rebuilding period, but also change their name and become a brand new team. Just as the team in the film bottomed out, Indians fans are waiting for another dynasty for the team and will wait for their long-awaited World Series trophy.
How do you think Major League 2 compares to the previous one? Do you expect your home team to make a movie of your own? Feel free to share it with us in the comments section!