despite have charlie lau help mathew broderick character in his hitting and the high school baseball scene be completely unrealistic and look like a bad pony league game . i can not see a high school coach treat a varsity level game in this manner . make the umpire look like real umpire and too . another thing and high school baseball be only seven inning and they be play in the ninth inning . come on and a little research here . a simple detail like this really ruin movie with sport scene that be fill with these kind of error . be involve with sport and some mistake like this type of thing can lose any credibility . movie need to make sport event to look realistic and especially down to the official . i see too often referee and umpire in out of date uniform ( i mean vintage 1940s ) and do thing most trained official would never do .