2. Do you expect Gus Sinski’s talk to have any eff ect on Chapel? If it will, what will be the eff ect?

Why? Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner), a 20-year veteran pitcher with the Detroit Tigers, learns just before the season’s last game that the team’s new owners want to trade him. He also learns that his partner, Jane Aubrey

(Kelly Preston), intends to leave him. Faced with these daunting blows, Chapel, who decides to retire, wants to pitch a perfect fi nal game. Director Sam Raimi’s love of baseball shines through in some striking visual eff ects.

This scene is a slightly edited version of the “Just Throw” sequence, which begins the fi lm’s exciting closing scenes in which Chapel pitches his last game. In this scene, the Tigers’ catcher Gus Sinski (John C. Reilly) comes out to the pitching mound to talk to Billy