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Today, we will
witness the first co-ed team

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in professional baseball
since the 1950s.

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You see baseball all the time,

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but you never think about
seeing a woman out there.

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I don't know why
they get so hung up on this.

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There's nothing wrong with
being not so great at sports.

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Like I can't cook
a good soufflé.

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What you're about to see

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is not a work of fiction,

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but it is a story of many dreams

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that you've likely never seen it or heard of it before.

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A pivotal Group C matchup today.

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Two teams collide
on a huge stage.

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Both need a victory to advance.

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Holmes and her
first triple, the play today,

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a double to left
that brought home two runs.

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Courage, passion,

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perseverance against all odds.

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This is the world
of women's baseball.

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-Let's go, Ebony, let's go.
-Let's go, Ebony, let's go.

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-Let's go, Ebony, let's go.
-Let's go, Ebony, let's go.

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People wouldn't believe me

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when I'd say I play baseball.

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They're like,
"Oh, you mean softball."

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I'm like, "No, I play baseball
with all the guys."

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And you have to actually do
the function,

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-like not this, but...
- Yeah, you can't do it

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-like this.
-Yeah.

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My coach said
"I don't think you should play

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for my team anymore,
because you're taking spots away

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from boys that could potentially
be college prospects.

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It was after a game,

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and this guy had tweeted,

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"Why aren't you
playing softball?"

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Baseball is for boys
and softball is for girls.

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That's something
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in people's head for so long.

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I played baseball
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and ever since then,

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I just fell in love
with the game.

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I played till I was 14.

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Went to high school,
they didn't let me play.

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I think that's just something

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that we have to deal with

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being women playing
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Women play rugby,
women play soccer,

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women play basketball,
mixed martial arts.

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Women do all these
violent sports.

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What is the issue with baseball?

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Whoa!

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Good job, Marti,
way to hit the ball, all right.

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You are the next
Nomar Garciaparra, baby!

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I grew up playing baseball
in Southern California.

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My dad trained me
before I could walk.

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Marti was adorable.

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She looked like Shirley Temple,

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striking out boys when
she's seven, eight years old.

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KNBC and KABC
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They thought she was the mascot
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and then they would see
the windup,

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pretty much the same windup
she has now

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that she had at seven,

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and it just made
for pretty good TV.

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Well, it looks like you enjoy
playing baseball,

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-is that right?
-Yeah.

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If you could have
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what would it be?

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That I can be
in the major leagues.

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-The major leagues? -Mm-hmm.

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As far back as I can remember,

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I've played baseball
and I've loved the game.

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I used to turn on
a baseball game

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and fall asleep on the couch,

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and my brother would walk in
and change the channel

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and I would immediately wake up.

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And I would say,
"Hey, I was watching that."

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And he would say,
"You were sleeping!"

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And I said,
"No, I was watching it."

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I like that baseball
is way more complicated

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than people think.

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The average fans sees the game,
they see home runs,

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-they see strikeouts...

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and that's about
as deep as they get.

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But it's so much more
complicated than that.

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There's so much more going on.

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I can't say that at five,
I appreciated all those things,

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but certainly,
the seed was planted.

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We start in tee-ball and there's
a handful of other girls,

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and then you get to machine
or coach pitch, and...

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there are fewer girls.

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Then you get to kid pitch
and I was the only girl.

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But I love the game.

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In 1931, The Yankees were on their way back

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from spring training
when they stopped

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in Chattanooga, Tennessee
to play an exhibition game.

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There, they faced
Jackie Mitchell

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who struck out both Babe Ruth
and Lou Gehrig.

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The next day in the paper,

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Babe Ruth was quoted, saying,

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"I don't know
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if they begin
to let women in baseball.

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Of course,
they will never make good.

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Why?

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Because they are too delicate."

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No one knows for certain why.

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But the next day,

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Jackie Mitchell's contract
was voided.

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Since then, no woman has played

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on a Major League
affiliated team.

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Ever since I was six,
I've been playing baseball.

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My dad kinda got me into it.

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When she was a very young age,

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you know, I would teach her
the proper mechanics

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to throwing, balance,
the swing mechanics.

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I would video tape her,

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we'd break it down,
she'd get to watch it.

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It got to the point
where he was like,

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"Well, don't you wanna get
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and don't you wanna play?"

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And I kept saying no.
I didn't want to do it.

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And one of my biggest concerns,
I was like,

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"Well, if I gotta play,
do I have to have my hair up?"

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She saw every girl

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that had her hair in a ponytail,

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assumed that it had to be
that way.

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I said, "You can have your hair
any way you want to,

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first of all."

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"Then I wanna play baseball."

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At 11 and 12, you know,

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I kept getting people
that would say, "Well, you know,

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when the boys start getting
stronger and faster,

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things are gonna change
a little bit,

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and they never did.

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She was a baseball player.
You know?

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And it wasn't she threw
like a girl or threw like a boy,

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she threw like an athlete.

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And then high school
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she's like,
"I wanna play baseball."

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I'd always wanted to be
on the Dodgers.

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And I kept having
these fantasies,

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this might be why I became
a political scientist,

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that they would change the law

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by the time I got to be nine
and I could play Little League.

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In 1973,
there were lawsuits

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to allow girls
to play Little League Baseball.

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One team physician said,

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"No, girls' bones are softer
at this age.

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They break much easier."

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Or there was talk about

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if a girl gets hit in the chest
with a ball,

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she's gonna get
breast cancer later.

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I mean, this is just
crazy science

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to keep little boys
and little girls segregated.

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Little League
Baseball lost in 1973,

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and the Hoboken,
New Jersey Little League

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shut down for a year rather than let girls play with boys.

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Of course,
legally they couldn't stop

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the two girls that played
with the boys,

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but they certainly
didn't support them.

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Instead of starting
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or welcoming co-ed baseball,

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they created
the softball league.

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And that sort of
became the popular version

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of this is what girls do
and this is what boys do.

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Totally two different sports.

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We're two different sports.

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I relay to this
as tennis and ping-pong.

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It's the same concept,
different dimensions,

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but totally different sport.

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She can hit, she can pitch,

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but Stacy Piagno
doesn't play softball.

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As Fox30's
Brent Martineau explains,

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like the movie, Stacy,
she's in a league of her own.

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The fastball
is pretty good.

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The curveball can be nasty.

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Strike!

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Not bad stuff
for a pitcher with a ponytail.

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This is normal for me, you know.

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I've always played baseball
since I was little.

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Stacy Piagno
is one of the guys.

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I grew up playing
when I was younger.

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You know, it just started off
as something fun to do.

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Me and my brother,
we both played.

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As I got older, um, I definitely
fell in love with the sport,

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just how, you know, anybody
falls in love with what they do.

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And I had a pretty
easygoing past.

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You know, I was always pretty
accepted growing up

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with my coaches and teammates.

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But it got
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I have to either, you know,

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work my butt off to stay in
this sport or just slide out.

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I played high school
baseball with the boys,

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then I went to college
and I ended up playing softball.

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Softball,
it is a different sport,

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but at least I was,
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and throwing something.

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It's tough
being the only one.

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You just gotta work
a hundred times harder

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to fit in, to earn respect,
and to, to do well.

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Whenever I came
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I was a little nervous,
I was a little scared.

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I didn't know what to expect.

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I wasn't like the guys
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to change in the locker room.

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I changed in the restroom.

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As I was walking
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I literally asked myself,
"Do I want this?"

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Like, is this something
I really want?

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I, like, paused and I was like,
"Yeah, I want this."

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Run! Go!

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I definitely had that dream
as a kid.

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I wanted to be the first woman
in professional leagues.

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I, I think I probably wrote
some story

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for some
elementary school essay.

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I decided
I was gonna give it a shot

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at the high school level.

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I actually wrote a letter
to all the high school coaches

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uh, at schools
that I could attend.

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I wasn't asking
for special treatment,

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I was simply asking
for a fair shot.

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Frankly, some coaches said no,
there's a softball team,

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um, and a handful
of coaches said,

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"Sure, if you're good enough,
you can come play."

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I stopped going to the games

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because the boys
were hurting her.

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At that time,
she played second base.

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There was a man on first,
there was a ball hit to second.

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She charged the ball
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put his knee right into her head

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as she was going for the ball
and knocked her out.

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And I was done,
'cause I was gonna kill somebody

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if I continued to watch
what was going on in the field.

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For nearly a century,

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there were only
two opportunities

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for women to play baseball.

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In the 1940s, while the men
were away at war, women played

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in the All-American Girls
Professional Baseball League

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as portrayed in the movie
A League of Their Own.

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Even though by the 1990s
the ban on girls

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in Little League
had been lifted,

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in practice,
very little changed.

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From 1994 to 1997,

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a few women got to play
for the Silver Bullets,

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a professional women's team
that barnstormed the country

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playing against men.

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Otherwise, girls who play
have no choice

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but to play on boys teams
if they're fortunate enough

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to have school, league,
and parental support.

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-Hooray!
-Hoo-rah!

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Every time I go out
to pitch against a guy team,

254
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I hear chatter.

255
00:10:40,204 --> 00:10:42,554
I've been trained
by doing this so many times

256
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that I kinda,
it's like, mute them out.

257
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Come on, dummy,
get 'em out!

258
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-The boy can play!
- Let's go!

259
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Tie game!

260
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What? No.

261
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Got 'em at three!

262
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There were times
I would feel

263
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left out as an athlete.

264
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People in the crowds would,

265
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would sometimes
think differently.

266
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Guys on the other team
would make it a big deal.

267
00:11:03,358 --> 00:11:05,708
One dad
came up to my dad and said,

268
00:11:05,752 --> 00:11:07,710
"She'll never play high school
baseball in this town.

269
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Not as long as I'm around."

270
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I've had people try to peg me.

271
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They went after her
all the time.

272
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They hit her like six
or seven times with a pitch.

273
00:11:22,464 --> 00:11:25,902
Talk about pursuing a dream.
It takes a lot of courage

274
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to come out to this field.

275
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When I finished my senior year,

276
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for all intents and purposes,

277
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I thought that baseball
was over for me.

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I wanted to go
to a big Division 1 school,

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I wanted to have
that experience.

280
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The best way for me to do that

281
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was to use volleyball
as a means to get a scholarship.

282
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You can't go anywhere
with baseball

283
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if you're an athletic girl.

284
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And, and that's,
that's a real roadblock.

285
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Whenever
people doubted me,

286
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I would take that energy
and that would fuel me.

287
00:12:01,198 --> 00:12:03,113
That's what made me keep going.

288
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Go, go, go! More!

289
00:12:04,941 --> 00:12:07,335
Sometimes baseball
will be tough and it'll be hard,

290
00:12:07,378 --> 00:12:08,597
and I get frustrated with it,

291
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so I'd want
to do something else.

292
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I liked being with women
athletes like my own.

293
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There are times I, I would want
to pursue soccer or golf,

294
00:12:18,085 --> 00:12:20,087
and then there are times
I just thought like,

295
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I just, I just really
love baseball.

296
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Like I just can't imagine
stopping.

297
00:12:24,831 --> 00:12:27,007
- Woo!

298
00:12:28,182 --> 00:12:32,839
I was Googling women's baseball,

299
00:12:32,882 --> 00:12:34,231
men's league,

300
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I was just looking for anything,

301
00:12:36,059 --> 00:12:40,281
and I stumbled
on the fact that USA Baseball

302
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had a women's team,
which I didn't know,

303
00:12:41,848 --> 00:12:43,153
and they were having
open tryouts

304
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for the 2006 National Team

305
00:12:45,025 --> 00:12:47,505
that was going to play
in the World Cup in Taiwan.

306
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I thought, well,
I haven't played in a while

307
00:12:48,855 --> 00:12:50,682
but I'm gonna give it a shot.

308
00:12:57,167 --> 00:12:58,734
USA Baseball
is the governing body

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for the sport of baseball.

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All Olympic sports have one.

311
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One of our jobs
is fielding national teams

312
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to be able to complete
with the best in the world.

313
00:13:08,091 --> 00:13:09,136
Life is such
a special thing,

314
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where you get to come out

315
00:13:10,485 --> 00:13:12,704
and finally, you know,
play baseball together.

316
00:13:12,748 --> 00:13:14,706
So we don't get paid,
we don't have salaries.

317
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It's not like that.

318
00:13:15,969 --> 00:13:18,798
This is purely
the love of the game.

319
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In 2004,

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the first Women's Baseball
World Cup was held,

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00:13:22,976 --> 00:13:25,369
providing international
playing opportunities,

322
00:13:25,413 --> 00:13:27,850
and giving women
their only chance to play

323
00:13:27,894 --> 00:13:31,549
high-level amateur baseball
once every two years.

324
00:13:31,593 --> 00:13:35,031
And in 2015,
women's baseball was included

325
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in the Pan American Games
for the first time.

326
00:13:37,686 --> 00:13:40,210
Team USA won the gold.

327
00:13:40,254 --> 00:13:44,301
The World Cup in South Korea
is next and that's our focus.

328
00:13:44,345 --> 00:13:46,086
We're currently
number two in the world,

329
00:13:46,129 --> 00:13:48,044
but we wanna be number one.

330
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The top 40 female
baseball players in the USA

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compete to represent
their country

332
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and the sport they love.

333
00:13:54,659 --> 00:13:57,793
I hope it goes further
than, you know, just this year,

334
00:13:57,837 --> 00:13:59,142
this, this go around.

335
00:13:59,186 --> 00:14:00,752
It'd mean the world
to me to go play,

336
00:14:00,796 --> 00:14:02,493
especially
for the United States.

337
00:14:02,537 --> 00:14:04,452
Only 20 will make the cut

338
00:14:04,495 --> 00:14:06,193
for the rare opportunity

339
00:14:06,236 --> 00:14:09,022
to play baseball with women
and against women.

340
00:14:11,241 --> 00:14:13,156
Every year, we get more girls

341
00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,724
that find out about the team
and try out,

342
00:14:15,767 --> 00:14:18,422
and each year it gets better,
and stronger, and bigger

343
00:14:18,466 --> 00:14:20,250
and more of a program.

344
00:14:22,949 --> 00:14:24,385
Did you ever pitch 'em on top?

345
00:14:24,428 --> 00:14:26,866
I did, actually
was a... pitched quite a bit,

346
00:14:26,909 --> 00:14:28,911
-about 400 years ago, but...

347
00:14:28,955 --> 00:14:30,304
I probably crossed.

348
00:14:30,347 --> 00:14:31,566
I was really hurt too.

349
00:14:31,609 --> 00:14:32,959
I got pulled out
of the first inning.

350
00:14:33,002 --> 00:14:34,961
Oh, yeah, you were hurt?
You started? And mentally?

351
00:14:35,004 --> 00:14:36,397
I'm actually gonna go
take pitching lessons

352
00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:37,920
and come back to the team

353
00:14:37,964 --> 00:14:39,661
so that I can pitch one inning
and redeem myself.

354
00:14:39,704 --> 00:14:40,923
I got you, Holmsie.

355
00:14:40,967 --> 00:14:42,229
I've never been
more butthurt in my life.

356
00:14:42,272 --> 00:14:43,621
It was awful.

357
00:14:43,665 --> 00:14:46,842
Tamara, she's just like
a goofball, to be honest.

358
00:14:46,886 --> 00:14:48,278
She's just great
to have around,

359
00:14:48,322 --> 00:14:51,107
and it's funny,
'cause she's so intimidating.

360
00:14:51,151 --> 00:14:52,717
Like, physically.

361
00:14:52,761 --> 00:14:56,286
But she's the nicest person
that you've ever met.

362
00:14:56,330 --> 00:14:58,158
Being the oldest
person on the team,

363
00:14:58,201 --> 00:15:00,595
you know, I'm gonna get beat up
with the old person jokes,

364
00:15:00,638 --> 00:15:03,337
but at the same time,
they have to carry the equipment

365
00:15:03,380 --> 00:15:05,426
so it's good to have
the youngins around.

366
00:15:06,949 --> 00:15:08,646
My biggest responsibility

367
00:15:08,690 --> 00:15:11,519
is to, is to lead by example,

368
00:15:11,562 --> 00:15:15,697
and help groom them
in the USA Baseball way.

369
00:15:17,351 --> 00:15:19,353
You can look
at any high-end elite athlete

370
00:15:19,396 --> 00:15:22,225
and you see that, that
what we call that it factor.

371
00:15:22,269 --> 00:15:23,444
You gotta have that heart

372
00:15:23,487 --> 00:15:24,749
and you gotta have
that confidence.

373
00:15:24,793 --> 00:15:26,447
A lot of times,
you can't teach that.

374
00:15:29,276 --> 00:15:32,192
I work as a full-time
firefighter in Oakland,

375
00:15:32,235 --> 00:15:35,978
and I run a CrossFit gym
in my off days

376
00:15:36,022 --> 00:15:38,459
when I'm not playing baseball.

377
00:15:38,502 --> 00:15:41,418
Up in my 20s,
I played the last two years

378
00:15:41,462 --> 00:15:42,898
with the Silver Bullets,

379
00:15:42,942 --> 00:15:45,248
and then USA Baseball
came around

380
00:15:45,292 --> 00:15:48,077
and that also provided
another high level of play.

381
00:15:48,121 --> 00:15:49,557
We can try it out.

382
00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:50,906
Yeah, we need to get it.

383
00:15:50,950 --> 00:15:52,255
There are
a handful of us

384
00:15:52,299 --> 00:15:55,737
who have been playing together
since 2006,

385
00:15:55,780 --> 00:15:58,740
and we've built
a very good camaraderie

386
00:15:58,783 --> 00:16:00,307
and some really
close friendships.

387
00:16:00,350 --> 00:16:01,961
This is what we look like
when we play catch

388
00:16:02,004 --> 00:16:03,658
and Catchphrase.

389
00:16:03,701 --> 00:16:06,356
Recently got married
and then a handful of players

390
00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:09,359
that I'm the closest to
came to my wedding,

391
00:16:09,403 --> 00:16:12,667
so, you know, we are,
in fact, a family.

392
00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:20,066
-Yeah!
-Yeah!

393
00:16:28,248 --> 00:16:31,468
I anticipate this
being my last World Cup.

394
00:16:31,512 --> 00:16:33,775
I'm definitely gonna go down
swinging for sure,

395
00:16:33,818 --> 00:16:35,559
but I don't feel
any extra pressure.

396
00:16:35,603 --> 00:16:36,647
- Yeah.

397
00:16:36,691 --> 00:16:38,214
I come and sit here
all the time.

398
00:16:39,563 --> 00:16:40,782
More, more, more!

399
00:16:40,825 --> 00:16:42,523
Hit me, hit me!

400
00:16:42,566 --> 00:16:45,656
Ones are at the 45,
twos are at first base.

401
00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:48,050
How I got into women's baseball
is somewhat of a funny story.

402
00:16:48,094 --> 00:16:50,270
I'd finished up
my college playing career

403
00:16:50,313 --> 00:16:51,880
and my college coach called me,

404
00:16:51,923 --> 00:16:53,360
and he's like,
"Hey, you just graduated."

405
00:16:53,403 --> 00:16:54,883
He's like, "What are you doing
this summer?"

406
00:16:54,926 --> 00:16:57,407
It was an opportunity
to coach and I jumped on it.

407
00:16:57,451 --> 00:16:59,583
When I found out
it was women's baseball,

408
00:16:59,627 --> 00:17:01,368
I went into it
like every other guy.

409
00:17:01,411 --> 00:17:03,370
I was like, "Oh, are they gonna
be able to reach the play?

410
00:17:03,413 --> 00:17:05,502
Are they gonna be able
to hit it out of the infield?"

411
00:17:05,546 --> 00:17:08,549
And I was very pleased

412
00:17:08,592 --> 00:17:11,726
to see within minutes
of being on field

413
00:17:11,769 --> 00:17:14,598
that my ignorance
was inexcusable.

414
00:17:14,642 --> 00:17:16,905
Not only was I amazed
and impressed

415
00:17:16,948 --> 00:17:18,080
with their athletic ability,

416
00:17:18,124 --> 00:17:20,213
their coachability
is off the charts.

417
00:17:21,649 --> 00:17:25,348
The intensity, the drive to win,
the compete level.

418
00:17:25,392 --> 00:17:27,829
I mean, I look for all
those things in my athletes,

419
00:17:27,872 --> 00:17:29,396
you know, at WPI.

420
00:17:29,439 --> 00:17:31,789
Every single one of these girls
has that level about 'em.

421
00:17:31,833 --> 00:17:33,356
And again,
I think part of that

422
00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:34,531
is that path they've taken.

423
00:17:34,575 --> 00:17:36,229
Plenty of sacrifices
they had to make.

424
00:17:36,272 --> 00:17:38,144
So we're lucky as coaches

425
00:17:38,187 --> 00:17:39,928
that we're gonna be dealing
with those type of athletes.

426
00:17:41,234 --> 00:17:42,757
- To two!
- Two!

427
00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:43,975
I love it.

428
00:17:44,019 --> 00:17:46,282
I mean, shoot,
I, when I came walking in,

429
00:17:46,326 --> 00:17:47,849
I saw the third baseman
make a play that,

430
00:17:47,892 --> 00:17:49,372
I mean, it's do or die.

431
00:17:49,416 --> 00:17:51,331
-And she made it look easy.

432
00:17:51,374 --> 00:17:52,941
So that's the need to see.

433
00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,466
I mean, these girls are playing

434
00:17:56,510 --> 00:17:59,121
and everything full board.

435
00:17:59,165 --> 00:18:00,992
More of like,
old time baseball,

436
00:18:01,036 --> 00:18:02,994
like a manufacture runs
and stuff.

437
00:18:03,038 --> 00:18:05,127
Tell me again
uh, what you do.

438
00:18:05,171 --> 00:18:06,650
-I'm a scout
- All right.

439
00:18:06,694 --> 00:18:09,697
for the Toronto Blue Jays.

440
00:18:09,740 --> 00:18:12,134
I have dreams
about old baseball at night,

441
00:18:12,178 --> 00:18:14,919
like living in Brooklyn
and the Dodgers and stuff.

442
00:18:14,963 --> 00:18:17,139
Baseball was played
totally different.

443
00:18:17,183 --> 00:18:19,272
Power's an added thing to it.

444
00:18:19,315 --> 00:18:21,143
Now that it's so individualized,

445
00:18:21,187 --> 00:18:22,666
everyone wants to see
the guy throwing

446
00:18:22,710 --> 00:18:26,714
a hundred miles an hour
and hitting 495-foot home runs.

447
00:18:26,757 --> 00:18:29,064
You kinda lose
the whole team thing.

448
00:18:29,108 --> 00:18:30,457
While bat and ball games

449
00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:33,199
go back as far as ancient Egypt,

450
00:18:33,242 --> 00:18:36,332
one of the more direct ancestors of the game

451
00:18:36,376 --> 00:18:39,030
was invented by women.

452
00:18:39,074 --> 00:18:41,163
Milkmaids in the 15th century

453
00:18:41,207 --> 00:18:43,731
were the ones
that have been credited

454
00:18:43,774 --> 00:18:46,081
with inventing
a game called stoolball.

455
00:18:46,125 --> 00:18:48,953
They set their
milking stools in a circle.

456
00:18:48,997 --> 00:18:50,738
One served the rock
to the other,

457
00:18:50,781 --> 00:18:53,741
and the other one hit it
and ran to the first stool.

458
00:18:53,784 --> 00:18:57,179
And you got out if a fielder
picked up the rock

459
00:18:57,223 --> 00:18:59,094
and threw it at you
before you got to base.

460
00:18:59,138 --> 00:19:01,009
I mean, you know, simple, right?

461
00:19:01,052 --> 00:19:02,184
Very feminine.

462
00:19:02,228 --> 00:19:03,533
But it wasn't a boys' game.

463
00:19:14,892 --> 00:19:18,026
Twenty women
will go home, and 20 will stay

464
00:19:18,069 --> 00:19:22,422
for a bi-annual opportunity
to play competitive baseball.

465
00:19:22,465 --> 00:19:25,338
The ones who don't make the cut will have to wait two years

466
00:19:25,381 --> 00:19:27,775
for this opportunity
to come around again.

467
00:19:29,733 --> 00:19:31,387
So this next year coming back,

468
00:19:31,431 --> 00:19:34,347
I will definitely be
way more prepared.

469
00:19:35,870 --> 00:19:37,480
It is sad, you know,
you're not going

470
00:19:37,524 --> 00:19:38,916
to South Korea or playing,

471
00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:41,832
but it wouldn't help at all
if we didn't come back.

472
00:19:41,876 --> 00:19:43,530
And then when you go
to your exit meetings

473
00:19:43,573 --> 00:19:44,922
and the coaches sit down
and talk to you

474
00:19:44,966 --> 00:19:46,446
and tell you, you know,
what you're gonna work on,

475
00:19:46,489 --> 00:19:48,448
the positive things
they have to say about you,

476
00:19:48,491 --> 00:19:51,320
it's just motivation
to come back.

477
00:19:51,364 --> 00:19:55,150
The competitiveness of
breaking down to 20 is so hard.

478
00:19:55,194 --> 00:19:56,673
And that sometimes
it's gonna mean

479
00:19:56,717 --> 00:19:58,849
you're not gonna make
that final 20

480
00:19:58,893 --> 00:20:00,764
and it's gonna be devastating.

481
00:20:00,808 --> 00:20:02,549
And it happens
in all sports, right?

482
00:20:02,592 --> 00:20:05,334
I mean, you sign up for that.

483
00:20:11,514 --> 00:20:14,474
-Say home team.

484
00:20:14,517 --> 00:20:16,084
So it's gonna be
a culture shock for me,

485
00:20:16,127 --> 00:20:18,434
'cause I'm in little
Southern Louisiana, you know?

486
00:20:20,262 --> 00:20:22,743
In middle school,
everyone always said like,

487
00:20:22,786 --> 00:20:25,049
"No one's gonna take you
in high school for baseball,

488
00:20:25,093 --> 00:20:28,052
but I'm glad
I picked it back up.

489
00:20:28,096 --> 00:20:29,315
I'll send it to Mom.

490
00:20:32,666 --> 00:20:36,278
It's going to be a battle
of who's closer to perfection.

491
00:20:36,322 --> 00:20:38,933
Any of you that have been
at international games,

492
00:20:38,976 --> 00:20:40,674
am I over-exaggerating?

493
00:20:42,328 --> 00:20:44,286
At the high-stakes table
we're at,

494
00:20:44,330 --> 00:20:46,027
that means we let somebody come

495
00:20:46,070 --> 00:20:47,985
and take a gold medal
off your neck.

496
00:20:48,029 --> 00:20:49,160
Give me that ring.

497
00:20:49,204 --> 00:20:50,553
They're taking that ring
off your finger,

498
00:20:50,597 --> 00:20:53,077
and then bring it back
to wherever they're from.

499
00:20:53,121 --> 00:20:54,818
A good solid core

500
00:20:54,862 --> 00:20:56,646
has played together
for long enough,

501
00:20:56,690 --> 00:20:58,996
and that's starting
to show in our play.

502
00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,129
And even though
we've gotten beat by Japan

503
00:21:01,172 --> 00:21:03,044
in the last couple
of World Cups,

504
00:21:03,087 --> 00:21:05,351
we're still at least
the number two player.

505
00:21:05,394 --> 00:21:08,832
And I feel like this is gonna be
our year to surpass that

506
00:21:08,876 --> 00:21:10,443
and bring
that championship back.

507
00:21:10,486 --> 00:21:11,531
We're gonna say on three.

508
00:21:11,574 --> 00:21:12,619
One, two, three.

509
00:21:12,662 --> 00:21:13,837
USA!

510
00:21:28,548 --> 00:21:31,333
♪ Give me a game
Underneath the lights ♪

511
00:21:31,377 --> 00:21:33,509
♪ Give me the roar of the fans

512
00:21:33,553 --> 00:21:36,295
♪ Give me the sound
Of the big bat swinging ♪

513
00:21:36,338 --> 00:21:38,862
♪ Best of the best in the land

514
00:21:38,906 --> 00:21:41,648
♪ Just load up the bases

515
00:21:41,691 --> 00:21:44,085
♪ Fire up the crowd

516
00:21:44,128 --> 00:21:47,001
♪ Let's clear out the dugout

517
00:21:47,044 --> 00:21:49,351
♪ We're gonna get real loud

518
00:21:49,395 --> 00:21:52,223
♪ Just throw me a fastball

519
00:21:52,267 --> 00:21:54,356
♪ Smoke from the mound

520
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,141
♪ We're gonna end this thing
With just one swing ♪

521
00:21:57,185 --> 00:21:59,753
♪ I'm gonna knock one out

522
00:21:59,796 --> 00:22:02,669
Freaking L.A. to Tokyo.

523
00:22:03,626 --> 00:22:05,585
Boarding.

524
00:22:05,628 --> 00:22:07,935
-Jessica!
-Ready for takeoff.

525
00:22:07,978 --> 00:22:09,240
Don't wiggle next to us.

526
00:22:09,284 --> 00:22:10,938
When I was playing
in high school,

527
00:22:10,981 --> 00:22:13,810
in my first couple years
playing USA Baseball,

528
00:22:13,854 --> 00:22:15,203
I was playing
'cause I love to play.

529
00:22:16,030 --> 00:22:18,946
Now at 35,

530
00:22:18,989 --> 00:22:23,385
I see the impact that our
success can have on the sport.

531
00:22:23,429 --> 00:22:25,169
Friend,
how was your flight?

532
00:22:26,170 --> 00:22:28,259
I'm hangry.

533
00:22:28,303 --> 00:22:30,479
Every time we play
in the World Cup,

534
00:22:30,523 --> 00:22:32,655
it's like,
"Oh, women play baseball?"

535
00:22:32,699 --> 00:22:34,396
And then two years later,
people forgot

536
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:35,702
that somebody already wrote
that article.

537
00:22:37,094 --> 00:22:39,967
We almost reiterate
that it's abnormal

538
00:22:40,010 --> 00:22:42,361
in some of the exposures
that we do.

539
00:22:42,404 --> 00:22:43,840
It's nice when they're little.

540
00:22:43,884 --> 00:22:46,452
Everybody appreciates
Mo'ne Davis.

541
00:22:46,495 --> 00:22:47,583
- Give it up, everyone.

542
00:22:47,627 --> 00:22:49,803
Mo'ne Davis
from the Taney Dragons!

543
00:22:49,846 --> 00:22:51,457
Remember her name!

544
00:22:51,500 --> 00:22:55,330
It was a sensational
story while she was doing it,

545
00:22:55,374 --> 00:22:57,985
and nobody recognized the fact
that there are thousands

546
00:22:58,028 --> 00:23:00,030
of other girls playing
Little League Baseball.

547
00:23:00,074 --> 00:23:01,423
There are...

548
00:23:01,467 --> 00:23:03,164
At the time, there were women

549
00:23:03,207 --> 00:23:05,775
playing in the Pan Am Games.

550
00:23:05,819 --> 00:23:09,518
And no announcer
even mentioned it.

551
00:23:09,562 --> 00:23:11,259
There's more to this.
It's not just, you know,

552
00:23:11,302 --> 00:23:13,000
us going and trying to win
a gold medal.

553
00:23:13,043 --> 00:23:15,263
Let's, let's pave the way
for these other girls.

554
00:23:15,306 --> 00:23:16,743
-Woo!
- We had the YouTube

555
00:23:16,786 --> 00:23:18,092
streams this year,

556
00:23:18,135 --> 00:23:20,790
and media coverage
has gotten better.

557
00:23:20,834 --> 00:23:24,141
The idea of a woman
playing baseball

558
00:23:24,185 --> 00:23:27,449
to stop being an anomaly
and to be normal.

559
00:23:27,493 --> 00:23:29,495
And that's what
we're shooting for.

560
00:23:29,538 --> 00:23:31,018
Thank you.

561
00:23:31,061 --> 00:23:33,542
-Next stop, South Korea.
-Woo!

562
00:23:39,505 --> 00:23:41,332
-We love USA!
-We love USA!

563
00:23:41,376 --> 00:23:43,247
-We love USA!
-We love USA!

564
00:23:43,291 --> 00:23:45,467
-We love USA!
-We love USA!

565
00:23:45,511 --> 00:23:47,469
-We love USA!
-We love USA!

566
00:23:47,513 --> 00:23:49,558
-We love USA!
-We love USA!

567
00:23:49,602 --> 00:23:52,605
-We love USA!
-We love USA!

568
00:23:52,648 --> 00:23:54,258
It's great to be here
in South Korea.

569
00:23:54,302 --> 00:23:55,782
We're really looking forward
to the tournament

570
00:23:55,825 --> 00:23:57,392
and feel very welcome.

571
00:23:57,436 --> 00:23:58,654
Thank you very much.

572
00:23:58,698 --> 00:23:59,786
- Bye!
- It's like taking

573
00:23:59,829 --> 00:24:02,615
women's baseball
out of the closet.

574
00:24:02,658 --> 00:24:05,444
You're catching a lot
of media exposure,

575
00:24:05,487 --> 00:24:07,489
and people are asking,
"Well, what is that?"

576
00:24:07,533 --> 00:24:08,925
The chapter
of the United States.

577
00:24:08,969 --> 00:24:11,493
We'd like to thank everyone
for their hospitality,

578
00:24:11,537 --> 00:24:13,364
and we very much look forward
to competing

579
00:24:13,408 --> 00:24:15,976
with so many great ball clubs
from all over the world,

580
00:24:16,019 --> 00:24:20,067
um, in such a great baseball
country as South Korea.

581
00:24:20,110 --> 00:24:21,808
So we're very excited.

582
00:24:31,208 --> 00:24:32,949
These new teams coming in

583
00:24:32,993 --> 00:24:34,603
are definitely gonna bring
a good energy

584
00:24:34,647 --> 00:24:36,213
and it's exciting to see it.

585
00:24:36,257 --> 00:24:38,694
We had like,
Pakistan and India, like,

586
00:24:38,738 --> 00:24:41,044
teams that traditionally
would not have been there,

587
00:24:41,088 --> 00:24:42,219
and that's amazing.

588
00:24:52,491 --> 00:24:55,537
Women baseball,
you see a big potential

589
00:24:55,581 --> 00:24:57,017
for this sport in the world.

590
00:24:57,060 --> 00:25:00,237
The last editions of our
World Cup was only eight teams.

591
00:25:00,281 --> 00:25:02,762
We increased that.
Now we have 12 teams.

592
00:25:02,805 --> 00:25:04,981
It's the first time
we ever had live coverage.

593
00:25:06,940 --> 00:25:09,116
They built here in Korea
this new facility,

594
00:25:09,159 --> 00:25:11,118
mainly although for this event,

595
00:25:11,161 --> 00:25:12,772
and for the women's baseball.

596
00:25:46,501 --> 00:25:48,634
I got a group
of women to start a team,

597
00:25:48,677 --> 00:25:50,853
then I did my best
to develop an environment

598
00:25:50,897 --> 00:25:52,420
where they could begin
to play baseball.

599
00:25:54,509 --> 00:25:56,337
We have a specific league
in Australia

600
00:25:56,380 --> 00:25:57,773
for women's baseball.

601
00:25:57,817 --> 00:25:59,775
Well, we have 14 teams
in Sydney.

602
00:25:59,819 --> 00:26:02,212
They all play
in the competitions.

603
00:26:02,256 --> 00:26:04,475
The women's game
is the dirty little secret

604
00:26:04,519 --> 00:26:06,216
that's swept under the rug.

605
00:26:06,260 --> 00:26:08,958
And it won't get on ESPN,

606
00:26:09,002 --> 00:26:13,223
but you put on chess
and you put on poker,

607
00:26:13,267 --> 00:26:15,399
and you put on the spelling bee.

608
00:26:16,749 --> 00:26:18,228
Why wouldn't there be
one highlight?

609
00:26:18,272 --> 00:26:19,360
Women's World Cup today.

610
00:26:19,403 --> 00:26:20,448
Blah, blah, blah.

611
00:26:20,491 --> 00:26:23,233
It's a beautiful event.
Looks great.

612
00:26:23,277 --> 00:26:25,061
The top two teams
from each group

613
00:26:25,105 --> 00:26:27,847
move on to compete
for the gold medal in games

614
00:26:27,890 --> 00:26:30,676
broadcast on live TV
in several countries.

615
00:26:30,719 --> 00:26:31,981
And for the first time,

616
00:26:32,025 --> 00:26:34,723
streamed on the Web
around the globe.

617
00:26:34,767 --> 00:26:37,160
The remaining teams will play
consolation games

618
00:26:37,204 --> 00:26:39,162
before returning home
empty handed.

619
00:26:41,338 --> 00:26:43,297
Women play
on the same field as the men.

620
00:26:43,340 --> 00:26:45,604
There are only
a few differences.

621
00:26:45,647 --> 00:26:48,084
The women play
with an aluminum bat,

622
00:26:48,128 --> 00:26:51,305
the outfield fence
is moved in about 15 feet,

623
00:26:51,348 --> 00:26:53,437
and they play
seven-inning games.

624
00:26:58,442 --> 00:26:59,661
And with that,
a very warm welcome

625
00:26:59,705 --> 00:27:01,097
to Gijang, South Korea

626
00:27:01,141 --> 00:27:03,796
and the 2016 Women's
Baseball World Cup.

627
00:27:03,839 --> 00:27:06,146
The U.S. has been shut out
of the top spot

628
00:27:06,189 --> 00:27:07,800
over the last four editions
of this tournament

629
00:27:07,843 --> 00:27:09,671
by a dominant
Japan national team,

630
00:27:09,715 --> 00:27:11,630
and the Americans looking
to atone for that.

631
00:27:11,673 --> 00:27:13,936
Stacy Piagno gets to start
for the United States

632
00:27:13,980 --> 00:27:16,112
this afternoon,
as the U.S. takes on Hong Kong.

633
00:27:19,463 --> 00:27:20,682
Piagno is a member
of last year's

634
00:27:20,726 --> 00:27:21,901
United States National Team

635
00:27:21,944 --> 00:27:23,642
that won gold
at the Pan American games.

636
00:27:23,685 --> 00:27:25,339
She made history
in that tournament,

637
00:27:25,382 --> 00:27:26,557
tossed the first no-hitter

638
00:27:26,601 --> 00:27:28,603
in women's baseball
at the Pan Am Games.

639
00:27:32,781 --> 00:27:35,044
Piagno to second,
and on to first,

640
00:27:35,088 --> 00:27:37,133
there is a 1-6-3 double play

641
00:27:37,177 --> 00:27:39,222
that cuts down the inning
for Hong Kong.

642
00:27:39,266 --> 00:27:40,920
The United States coming up.

643
00:27:43,357 --> 00:27:44,706
- There's a swing

644
00:27:44,750 --> 00:27:46,229
and a drive off the bat
of Baltzell out to center.

645
00:27:46,273 --> 00:27:48,275
That'll get down,
and it'll roll toward the wall.

646
00:27:48,318 --> 00:27:50,538
In to score from second base
is Brittany Gomez.

647
00:27:50,581 --> 00:27:52,192
Right on her heels
flying all the way

648
00:27:52,235 --> 00:27:54,020
around from first,
Jade Gortarez.

649
00:27:54,063 --> 00:27:57,197
The first three U.S. hitters
reached two or home

650
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:58,894
on Baltzell's two-run double,

651
00:27:58,938 --> 00:28:00,461
and the United States
is on the board quickly

652
00:28:00,504 --> 00:28:01,549
in the bottom of the first.

653
00:28:09,775 --> 00:28:11,385
Malaika Underwood,
one of the best pure athletes

654
00:28:11,428 --> 00:28:14,214
in this tournament, and probably
anywhere else too.

655
00:28:14,257 --> 00:28:17,043
This is her sixth straight
Women's Baseball World Cup,

656
00:28:17,086 --> 00:28:19,959
and her second hit
of the day already.

657
00:28:22,918 --> 00:28:25,399
That brings up
Tamara Holmes.

658
00:28:25,442 --> 00:28:28,097
Ho-Ying Au pitching from the
first base side of the rubber.

659
00:28:28,141 --> 00:28:29,751
Hopefully, it's not just one.

660
00:28:29,795 --> 00:28:32,101
Lifts it down
the left field line.

661
00:28:32,145 --> 00:28:35,061
Seven-inning games here
for this tournament.

662
00:28:35,104 --> 00:28:37,585
U.S. raised out to an early lead
in the first inning.

663
00:28:38,804 --> 00:28:39,892
Americans
have not looked back

664
00:28:39,935 --> 00:28:41,676
as there is a foul tip
into the glove

665
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,201
of evading backstop
by the plate, A.J. Hamilton.

666
00:28:45,245 --> 00:28:46,725
And that'll do it
as the United States

667
00:28:46,768 --> 00:28:48,770
wraps up a tournament
opening victory.

668
00:28:48,814 --> 00:28:51,555
It's the U.S., nine,
and Hong Kong, one.

669
00:28:51,599 --> 00:28:54,950
The American improve to 1-0,
Hong Kong falls to 0-1.

670
00:28:54,994 --> 00:28:56,735
You all today picked
them up, did a really good job.

671
00:28:58,780 --> 00:29:00,826
Malaika gets up, one of
the best players on Earth,

672
00:29:00,869 --> 00:29:02,610
and changes that line drive.

673
00:29:02,653 --> 00:29:03,959
Holmsie, one of the best hitters

674
00:29:04,003 --> 00:29:05,656
in the history of women's
baseball gets up,

675
00:29:05,700 --> 00:29:07,746
and she's willing
to show bunt, pull it back,

676
00:29:07,789 --> 00:29:09,356
and that ball gets into
the backstop, we score a run.

677
00:29:09,399 --> 00:29:11,401
You see what I'm saying?
That's that veteran leadership

678
00:29:11,445 --> 00:29:13,012
that I hope you guys
are picking up on,

679
00:29:13,055 --> 00:29:14,622
and that's how you adjust
to the game.

680
00:29:17,016 --> 00:29:20,062
There's a long history
of women playing baseball.

681
00:29:20,106 --> 00:29:23,152
You can't imagine how
comfortable that uniform was.

682
00:29:23,196 --> 00:29:25,981
The only problem was sliding.

683
00:29:26,025 --> 00:29:29,419
Would you believe
I'm still digging out gravel

684
00:29:29,463 --> 00:29:31,552
-in my strawberries?

685
00:29:31,595 --> 00:29:34,033
That was the year of 1948.

686
00:29:34,076 --> 00:29:35,556
That's a couple years ago.

687
00:29:35,599 --> 00:29:39,473
We learned a great deal,
we took the bad with the good,

688
00:29:39,516 --> 00:29:42,824
and we bit our lips
when we wanted to cry.

689
00:29:42,868 --> 00:29:44,434
We were just a team,

690
00:29:44,478 --> 00:29:48,743
and I think it's the most
wonderful thing in the world.

691
00:29:48,787 --> 00:29:50,266
You can go back
to the '90s

692
00:29:50,310 --> 00:29:52,747
with Julie Croteaus,
Ila Borders.

693
00:29:54,270 --> 00:29:57,012
Diamonds truly are a girl's best friend.

694
00:29:57,056 --> 00:29:58,492
Baseball diamonds.

695
00:29:58,535 --> 00:30:00,842
That's not a mistake
on your scorecard,

696
00:30:00,886 --> 00:30:04,759
that's Southern California
College freshman Ila Borders,

697
00:30:04,803 --> 00:30:07,544
becoming the first woman
ever to pitch

698
00:30:07,588 --> 00:30:09,546
in a men's college
baseball game.

699
00:30:09,590 --> 00:30:11,853
I got my entire
education paid for,

700
00:30:11,897 --> 00:30:13,986
and then I was able
to play four years

701
00:30:14,029 --> 00:30:17,380
of professional baseball
and get paid for it.

702
00:30:17,424 --> 00:30:19,121
You can keep going
back, and back, and back,

703
00:30:19,165 --> 00:30:21,297
and there are women
in this game,

704
00:30:21,341 --> 00:30:25,562
and I think we need to start
recognizing that fact too.

705
00:30:25,606 --> 00:30:27,129
- There are some basic

706
00:30:27,173 --> 00:30:29,349
unanswered questions about why

707
00:30:29,392 --> 00:30:31,786
male athletes
define athleticism,

708
00:30:31,830 --> 00:30:34,876
and why female athletes

709
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,966
are given the message
at some point or another

710
00:30:38,010 --> 00:30:40,577
that this is not natural
beyond a certain point.

711
00:30:41,927 --> 00:30:43,276
I've been around
baseball forever.

712
00:30:43,319 --> 00:30:44,799
It's been in my blood.

713
00:30:44,843 --> 00:30:46,018
I went to Franklin Pierce,
I was an All-American there.

714
00:30:46,061 --> 00:30:47,367
I got drafted by the Cardinals.

715
00:30:47,410 --> 00:30:48,890
And, um, feels
like every guy,

716
00:30:48,934 --> 00:30:50,892
or at least the baseball players
I was with, was like,

717
00:30:50,936 --> 00:30:51,937
you know, when I have a son,

718
00:30:51,980 --> 00:30:53,634
they're gonna be
a major leaguer.

719
00:30:53,677 --> 00:30:54,896
And I had my girls

720
00:30:54,940 --> 00:30:57,159
that you never trade-in
for the world,

721
00:30:57,203 --> 00:30:58,987
but if my daughter wants
to play baseball,

722
00:30:59,031 --> 00:31:00,771
she's going to play baseball.

723
00:31:03,426 --> 00:31:06,473
We don't really
respect women's athleticism,

724
00:31:06,516 --> 00:31:12,566
and we certainly barely
accept women's team sports.

725
00:31:12,609 --> 00:31:16,613
We teach girls that femininity
is basically disempowerment

726
00:31:16,657 --> 00:31:18,920
or its empowerment
in a devious way.

727
00:31:18,964 --> 00:31:21,792
It's sexual empowerment.

728
00:31:21,836 --> 00:31:24,404
Right, like in middle school,
I was pitching back then

729
00:31:24,447 --> 00:31:27,755
and I thought I was like
the best pitcher there was.

730
00:31:27,798 --> 00:31:28,974
Like, I played on a bunch
of boys' teams

731
00:31:29,017 --> 00:31:30,236
and I was always the best one.

732
00:31:30,279 --> 00:31:31,890
They would always tease me like,

733
00:31:31,933 --> 00:31:34,240
"Oh, you play like a girl,
la, da, da."

734
00:31:34,283 --> 00:31:36,677
Then I would hit bombs
and strike 'em out,

735
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,592
and I'm like, "Okay, well,
if that's what you think

736
00:31:38,635 --> 00:31:41,334
playing like a girl is like,
then I play like a girl."

737
00:31:47,427 --> 00:31:49,429
Big time opening
night matchup

738
00:31:49,472 --> 00:31:51,953
at our main facility here
in Gijang Hyundai Dream Park,

739
00:31:51,997 --> 00:31:53,999
as four-time reigning
champion Japan,

740
00:31:54,042 --> 00:31:55,957
the top-ranked team
in the world,

741
00:31:56,001 --> 00:31:58,829
takes on fourth-ranked Canada.

742
00:31:58,873 --> 00:32:01,049
These games are
on live television in Korea.

743
00:32:01,093 --> 00:32:02,964
They're packing the stands.
I mean, at the main stadium

744
00:32:03,008 --> 00:32:04,444
you couldn't find
a seat anywhere.

745
00:32:08,839 --> 00:32:10,972
Autumn Mills set to deal
the first pitch of the night.

746
00:32:11,016 --> 00:32:12,321
She'll pour in a called strike

747
00:32:12,365 --> 00:32:14,410
to get things started
on the mound for Canada.

748
00:32:14,454 --> 00:32:16,412
Facing Canada, which is like
the greatest rivalry

749
00:32:16,456 --> 00:32:19,111
in like history of women's
sports, especially in baseball.

750
00:32:19,154 --> 00:32:21,330
Last few years
it's been USA-Japan,

751
00:32:21,374 --> 00:32:22,853
USA-Japan in the finals,

752
00:32:22,897 --> 00:32:26,118
so, um, you know, hopefully,
that's starting to change.

753
00:32:27,641 --> 00:32:28,772
Swing and a line
drive back up to center field.

754
00:32:28,816 --> 00:32:30,339
That's a base hit.

755
00:32:30,383 --> 00:32:33,995
Obviously, we wanna be in
that final game, um, next week,

756
00:32:34,039 --> 00:32:37,346
and I, we feel like we have
the players to do that,

757
00:32:37,390 --> 00:32:39,000
and the coaching staff
to help us get there.

758
00:32:40,088 --> 00:32:42,308
They really,
really wanna beat us,

759
00:32:42,351 --> 00:32:45,180
and that's a situation
where it cuffs you.

760
00:32:46,703 --> 00:32:49,228
Beating Japan,
that's certainly, uh, my goal

761
00:32:49,271 --> 00:32:50,533
and high on my list.

762
00:32:52,405 --> 00:32:55,451
I started coaching women's baseball in 2001

763
00:32:55,495 --> 00:32:57,149
before the start
of the World Cup.

764
00:32:57,192 --> 00:33:00,587
Back then, there was no culture of women's baseball in Japan.

765
00:33:00,630 --> 00:33:02,023
I immediately fell in love

766
00:33:02,067 --> 00:33:03,938
with their passion
and will to fight.

767
00:33:05,113 --> 00:33:07,246
It hit me like a bang.

768
00:33:08,551 --> 00:33:10,510
And for the past 15 years,

769
00:33:10,553 --> 00:33:13,165
we have made slow
but steady progress.

770
00:33:13,208 --> 00:33:15,297
And finally, we have
a solid foundation.

771
00:33:16,690 --> 00:33:18,300
And in the next ten years,

772
00:33:18,344 --> 00:33:20,172
our goal is to have
girls baseball

773
00:33:20,215 --> 00:33:21,738
in every high school in Japan.

774
00:33:24,089 --> 00:33:26,439
On the mound for Japan,
Ayami Sato.

775
00:33:26,482 --> 00:33:28,310
Likely the top arm
in this competition

776
00:33:28,354 --> 00:33:30,747
and really in women's
baseball anywhere.

777
00:33:30,791 --> 00:33:32,836
Professionally this year,
a 9-3 record

778
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,579
and 2.17 ERA in 2016.

779
00:33:36,623 --> 00:33:39,321
She's the anchor of this
Japan staff which is in search

780
00:33:39,365 --> 00:33:41,541
of its fifth straight Women's
Baseball World Cup title.

781
00:33:47,764 --> 00:33:49,418
When I first started baseball,

782
00:33:49,462 --> 00:33:52,900
there were no opportunities
for girls to play.

783
00:33:52,943 --> 00:33:56,164
As I kept playing, I thought
about quitting many times,

784
00:33:56,208 --> 00:33:59,254
but the timing was so perfect
for me at every turning point,

785
00:33:59,298 --> 00:34:00,995
and I was able to keep playing.

786
00:34:03,824 --> 00:34:06,392
Now I'm a professional baseball player.

787
00:34:06,435 --> 00:34:08,307
I'm happy that now
there are opportunities

788
00:34:08,350 --> 00:34:09,917
for girls to play baseball.

789
00:34:13,268 --> 00:34:14,965
With the Japanese team,

790
00:34:15,009 --> 00:34:18,230
we always play a very close,
a very tight-knit game,

791
00:34:18,273 --> 00:34:21,102
and it's just all about
who makes that first mistake.

792
00:34:21,146 --> 00:34:22,799
In the last couple
of World Cups,

793
00:34:22,843 --> 00:34:24,801
we didn't make a lot,
but when we did,

794
00:34:24,845 --> 00:34:28,936
they scored the one or two runs
that was needed to beat us.

795
00:34:28,979 --> 00:34:32,113
So I'd like to see us come out
a bit more dominant

796
00:34:32,157 --> 00:34:33,854
with our bats
and tight on defense,

797
00:34:33,897 --> 00:34:37,162
and really just not make
those costly mistakes.

798
00:34:38,163 --> 00:34:39,381
Swing and a miss.

799
00:34:39,425 --> 00:34:40,948
Fastball well spotted
over the outer half,

800
00:34:40,991 --> 00:34:44,778
with the 11th strikeout
of the night from Ayami Sato.

801
00:34:44,821 --> 00:34:47,259
Our final from Gijang
Hyundai Dream Park tonight,

802
00:34:47,302 --> 00:34:50,436
it's Japan, eight,
and Canada, two.

803
00:34:58,313 --> 00:35:00,141
Many of Team USA's players

804
00:35:00,185 --> 00:35:02,404
are recruited
out of Division 1 Softball.

805
00:35:02,448 --> 00:35:04,145
While nearly half of the team

806
00:35:04,189 --> 00:35:05,755
played high school baseball
with boys,

807
00:35:05,799 --> 00:35:08,018
only a select few
had the opportunity

808
00:35:08,062 --> 00:35:10,804
to play competitive baseball
beyond 12th grade.

809
00:35:12,806 --> 00:35:14,721
During summers,
I still plan on trying

810
00:35:14,764 --> 00:35:17,027
to play baseball
and trying to get better at it.

811
00:35:17,071 --> 00:35:19,639
And I was thankful
that Stompers were willing

812
00:35:19,682 --> 00:35:22,337
to give me that opportunity
to prove myself.

813
00:35:22,381 --> 00:35:25,166
Kelsie was drafted
by the Sonoma Stompers.

814
00:35:25,210 --> 00:35:26,820
With the support
of their sponsor,

815
00:35:26,863 --> 00:35:28,648
she became the first woman
to play

816
00:35:28,691 --> 00:35:32,826
men's professional baseball since Ila Borders in the 1990s.

817
00:35:32,869 --> 00:35:36,003
I admire the courage
and the love of sport.

818
00:35:36,046 --> 00:35:38,875
I just would like it
to not happen with one,

819
00:35:38,919 --> 00:35:41,095
it should be four or five

820
00:35:41,139 --> 00:35:43,402
so they have colleagues
on the team.

821
00:35:43,445 --> 00:35:45,055
It's tough being
the only one,

822
00:35:45,099 --> 00:35:47,319
and, yeah, I mean,
I do feel pressured.

823
00:35:47,362 --> 00:35:49,277
I guess that's one
of the reasons why sometimes

824
00:35:49,321 --> 00:35:51,584
I could be so serious
and so hard on myself,

825
00:35:51,627 --> 00:35:55,414
'cause I don't want to hear
people saying this and that.

826
00:35:57,372 --> 00:36:00,375
Being with...
with an all-girls baseball team

827
00:36:00,419 --> 00:36:01,811
is, is a lot different.

828
00:36:01,855 --> 00:36:04,336
And just to come together,
and just to play,

829
00:36:04,379 --> 00:36:06,555
and not feel pressured
is a great feeling.

830
00:36:08,078 --> 00:36:10,516
With a victory today,
one of these teams

831
00:36:10,559 --> 00:36:12,909
will be moving on
to the Super Round,

832
00:36:12,953 --> 00:36:14,737
basically guaranteed
if they trip there,

833
00:36:14,781 --> 00:36:16,043
The United States,

834
00:36:16,086 --> 00:36:17,827
the world's number two
coming into the day off

835
00:36:17,871 --> 00:36:19,873
of that victory
over Hong Kong yesterday,

836
00:36:19,916 --> 00:36:21,962
a big start for the U.S.

837
00:36:22,005 --> 00:36:23,485
Snyder awaits the two, two.

838
00:36:23,529 --> 00:36:25,226
Takes a rip, left side.

839
00:36:25,270 --> 00:36:27,010
A stop there
for Yung-Hsin Cheng.

840
00:36:27,054 --> 00:36:29,491
Bomb thrown to first
from the hole.

841
00:36:29,535 --> 00:36:31,232
Runner breaking for third,
Tamara Holmes.

842
00:36:31,276 --> 00:36:33,843
Very appropriately eased up
on the groundout,

843
00:36:33,887 --> 00:36:35,454
what a great job
of base running.

844
00:36:35,497 --> 00:36:38,761
And she's been a mainstay
on this U.S. roster

845
00:36:38,805 --> 00:36:40,937
for the last two decades.

846
00:36:40,981 --> 00:36:42,069
And in nine games
for the women's team

847
00:36:42,112 --> 00:36:43,897
during 2015 competition,

848
00:36:43,940 --> 00:36:47,248
Tamara got a .345
with an .820 OPS.

849
00:36:47,292 --> 00:36:49,511
They're intrepid
these girls, they're fearless,

850
00:36:49,555 --> 00:36:51,905
and that's the beauty
of watching them.

851
00:36:51,948 --> 00:36:53,211
Born in Newton, Massachusetts

852
00:36:53,254 --> 00:36:54,951
in the United States,
Marti Sementelli,

853
00:36:54,995 --> 00:36:57,563
one of the younger players
on this roster, she's just 23.

854
00:36:57,606 --> 00:36:59,869
But Marti made headlines
back home when she was offered

855
00:36:59,913 --> 00:37:01,567
a partial scholarship
out of high school

856
00:37:01,610 --> 00:37:03,221
to play collegiate baseball.

857
00:37:03,264 --> 00:37:05,962
Former winner of the World Cup's
Best Right-Handed Pitcher Award,

858
00:37:06,006 --> 00:37:08,095
that award came eight years ago

859
00:37:08,138 --> 00:37:12,578
at the 2008 Women's Baseball
World Cup when she was just 15.

860
00:37:14,188 --> 00:37:15,581
That was the first,

861
00:37:15,624 --> 00:37:17,278
a first straight cap
in these towns.

862
00:37:17,322 --> 00:37:19,976
What a good play by
Michelle Snyder on the backside

863
00:37:20,020 --> 00:37:23,110
of the third base bag
to round that baseball.

864
00:37:23,153 --> 00:37:26,418
I thought Marti
was the only one.

865
00:37:26,461 --> 00:37:30,160
And in 2008, they say,
come to Wisconsin.

866
00:37:30,204 --> 00:37:32,250
And there's gonna be
this tryout,

867
00:37:32,293 --> 00:37:33,773
they're gonna play
a bunch of games,

868
00:37:33,816 --> 00:37:38,125
and they're gonna have
the World Cup in 2008 in Japan.

869
00:37:38,168 --> 00:37:40,606
We were shocked
at the talent.

870
00:37:40,649 --> 00:37:46,176
And then she saw other Martis,
she wasn't the only one.

871
00:37:46,220 --> 00:37:48,135
Megan from Stafford, Virginia.

872
00:37:48,178 --> 00:37:50,398
A Longwood University product.

873
00:37:50,442 --> 00:37:53,923
Former Lancer who walked
onto the basketball team there

874
00:37:53,967 --> 00:37:55,664
while playing softball.

875
00:37:55,708 --> 00:37:59,320
Shows you the athleticism of all
the women in this tournament.

876
00:37:59,364 --> 00:38:00,495
- Even just watching this

877
00:38:00,539 --> 00:38:02,149
as Megan gets into this one,
crushes it,

878
00:38:02,192 --> 00:38:03,368
high and deep to right.

879
00:38:03,411 --> 00:38:05,718
Racing back is Shen,
and that ball is gone!

880
00:38:07,502 --> 00:38:11,811
-Yeah, yeah, woo!

881
00:38:11,854 --> 00:38:16,337
♪ You know how lucky they are
Come on take it on ♪

882
00:38:16,381 --> 00:38:17,382
Right in front
of my country

883
00:38:17,425 --> 00:38:18,818
and hitting a home run,

884
00:38:18,861 --> 00:38:20,472
in front of all these fans,
definitely number one.

885
00:38:20,515 --> 00:38:22,952
♪ Then come lady,
Come on, take it on ♪

886
00:38:22,996 --> 00:38:26,913
♪ You know I like it, baby
Come on, take it on ♪

887
00:38:26,956 --> 00:38:30,438
♪ You know I like it, baby
Come on, take it on ♪

888
00:38:30,482 --> 00:38:34,268
♪ You know I like it, baby
Come on, take it on ♪

889
00:38:34,312 --> 00:38:37,793
♪ You know I like it, baby
Come on, take it on ♪

890
00:38:37,837 --> 00:38:39,665
♪ Take it, take it
Take it, take it ♪

891
00:38:39,708 --> 00:38:41,623
♪ Take it, take it
Take it, take it ♪

892
00:38:48,978 --> 00:38:50,676
Gortarez,
it's a first pitch bouncing back

893
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:51,851
to the mound,

894
00:38:51,894 --> 00:38:54,244
if that ball hit off
of her foot,

895
00:38:54,288 --> 00:38:56,725
but the United States
is gonna record the out at first

896
00:38:56,769 --> 00:38:58,640
and record the victory with it.

897
00:38:58,684 --> 00:38:59,815
That is a final.

898
00:38:59,859 --> 00:39:02,296
The 1-3 putout
retires Ya-Zhu Wen,

899
00:39:02,340 --> 00:39:06,866
and the United States moves on
in a tight one to 2-0,

900
00:39:06,909 --> 00:39:08,433
a perfect record
to their start here

901
00:39:08,476 --> 00:39:11,479
at the 2016 WBSC
Women's World Cup.

902
00:39:11,523 --> 00:39:13,220
The U.S., they'll collide
with the Australians,

903
00:39:13,263 --> 00:39:14,352
coming at them tomorrow.

904
00:39:22,272 --> 00:39:23,752
We love you!

905
00:39:23,796 --> 00:39:25,232
We love you!

906
00:39:25,275 --> 00:39:26,364
We love you!

907
00:39:27,495 --> 00:39:29,279
Woo!

908
00:39:29,323 --> 00:39:31,891
We were at the Major League
Korean game last night

909
00:39:31,934 --> 00:39:33,893
and our thing's being promoted
on the screen.

910
00:39:33,936 --> 00:39:35,721
Like that's not gonna happen
anywhere else.

911
00:39:35,764 --> 00:39:38,071
That's opportunity.

912
00:39:38,114 --> 00:39:40,595
We looked up at the TV
and we're on the TV.

913
00:39:40,639 --> 00:39:42,554
It was weird,
and we started screaming.

914
00:39:42,597 --> 00:39:43,903
Oh, shit!

915
00:39:45,121 --> 00:39:46,558
-Look at...
-Oh!

916
00:39:48,211 --> 00:39:49,343
It's slow!

917
00:39:51,214 --> 00:39:52,520
Oh, yeah!

918
00:39:52,564 --> 00:39:54,914
Yo, it's like Times Square
in Korea.

919
00:40:17,502 --> 00:40:20,026
We're Australia, traditionally,
the Aussie battler.

920
00:40:20,069 --> 00:40:22,071
We're the underdog
a lot of the time,

921
00:40:22,115 --> 00:40:24,726
our population's not as great
as a lot of the other countries,

922
00:40:24,770 --> 00:40:26,554
and we have to fight and claw

923
00:40:26,598 --> 00:40:28,164
for every little victory
we have.

924
00:40:28,208 --> 00:40:30,123
We understand
that we've got tough opposition,

925
00:40:30,166 --> 00:40:31,559
but on any given day,

926
00:40:31,603 --> 00:40:34,170
baseball's a funny game, um,
and anything can happen.

927
00:40:40,263 --> 00:40:42,396
A pivotal
Group C matchup today.

928
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:44,180
The final one
of the opening round

929
00:40:44,224 --> 00:40:47,053
for the United States
and Australia,

930
00:40:47,096 --> 00:40:49,925
as these two teams roll powers
in women's baseball,

931
00:40:49,969 --> 00:40:52,145
collide on a huge stage.

932
00:40:52,188 --> 00:40:53,407
Here are the scenarios.

933
00:40:53,451 --> 00:40:55,583
Very simple for each
of these teams,

934
00:40:55,627 --> 00:40:57,324
especially on
the United States side.

935
00:40:57,367 --> 00:40:59,065
If the U.S. gets
a victory today,

936
00:40:59,108 --> 00:41:01,981
the Americans are through
to the Super Round.

937
00:41:02,024 --> 00:41:03,809
The Aussies need a win today

938
00:41:03,852 --> 00:41:07,682
and they need it
by five runs or more.

939
00:41:07,726 --> 00:41:10,250
We have the most female
players of any country

940
00:41:10,293 --> 00:41:12,426
at the moment,
aside from Japan, obviously,

941
00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:14,428
but the challenge we have
is there's not enough depth,

942
00:41:14,472 --> 00:41:16,299
because it's not
our national pastime.

943
00:41:16,343 --> 00:41:17,823
America!

944
00:41:17,866 --> 00:41:19,868
Two out scenario,
here from Malaika Underwood.

945
00:41:19,912 --> 00:41:21,914
And she lifts this one
to center field.

946
00:41:21,957 --> 00:41:24,264
Starting in on it, now racing
back is Chelsea Forkin.

947
00:41:24,307 --> 00:41:25,483
It's over her head.

948
00:41:25,526 --> 00:41:27,180
It's gonna be
an RBI double at least,

949
00:41:27,223 --> 00:41:29,399
for Underwood,
is around second base.

950
00:41:29,443 --> 00:41:32,707
She's gonna dig for third
and then throw on target,

951
00:41:32,751 --> 00:41:34,013
but a little bit off line.

952
00:41:34,056 --> 00:41:35,362
- One nothing lead

953
00:41:35,405 --> 00:41:37,495
here in the top half
of the first inning.

954
00:41:38,234 --> 00:41:39,453
There's 20 years,

955
00:41:39,497 --> 00:41:41,542
in his daughter's case,
of development,

956
00:41:41,586 --> 00:41:42,630
-of sacrifice...
-She's been playing

957
00:41:42,674 --> 00:41:43,762
since she was five.

958
00:41:43,805 --> 00:41:45,415
-Of practice.
-We were hitting all--

959
00:41:45,459 --> 00:41:48,114
All the, you don't belong here,
all that, you know, other shit.

960
00:41:48,157 --> 00:41:49,419
You don't wanna get dirty.

961
00:41:49,463 --> 00:41:52,510
Yeah, so it's more
than just this.

962
00:41:54,990 --> 00:41:56,209
Kelsie Whitmore,

963
00:41:56,252 --> 00:41:58,820
a name that has made
a whole lot of headlines

964
00:41:58,864 --> 00:42:01,693
across the United States
in recent months.

965
00:42:01,736 --> 00:42:04,260
Eighteen years old,
a really dynamic talent.

966
00:42:04,304 --> 00:42:06,219
Actually just graduated
high school this year

967
00:42:06,262 --> 00:42:07,568
in Temecula.

968
00:42:09,396 --> 00:42:11,050
2-1 pitch
on the way to Lovering.

969
00:42:11,093 --> 00:42:12,834
That one's lifted
in the air to right field.

970
00:42:12,878 --> 00:42:14,706
This is gonna get over the head
of Megan Baltzell,

971
00:42:14,749 --> 00:42:16,403
that's gonna run
half off the wall.

972
00:42:16,446 --> 00:42:19,058
In to score from third base,
Chelsea Forkin,

973
00:42:19,101 --> 00:42:21,147
and motoring all the way around.

974
00:42:21,190 --> 00:42:23,758
Aussies trying to find a way
into the lead

975
00:42:23,802 --> 00:42:26,239
in this pivotal matchup
with the United States.

976
00:42:26,282 --> 00:42:28,763
Two-one on the way, McMillan
to the left side of the infield,

977
00:42:28,807 --> 00:42:32,114
diving, and not as fast
as shortstop Jade Gortarez,

978
00:42:32,158 --> 00:42:35,770
Michelle Snyder, and that's
gonna enable two runs to score.

979
00:42:35,814 --> 00:42:37,946
And the Aussies
have jumped into the lead

980
00:42:37,990 --> 00:42:39,165
ahead of the United States.

981
00:42:39,208 --> 00:42:40,470
It's 3-1, Australia.

982
00:42:44,605 --> 00:42:45,519
That's the only one
that bounced back to the mound.

983
00:42:45,563 --> 00:42:46,955
Gortarez will go to third,

984
00:42:46,999 --> 00:42:49,262
she'll cut the lead runner
down there, back to first!

985
00:42:49,305 --> 00:42:51,264
In time to get the out!

986
00:42:51,307 --> 00:42:57,052
A 1-5-3 double play,
and a huge swinging momentum

987
00:42:57,096 --> 00:43:00,447
as the United States gets out
of a jam unscathed.

988
00:43:00,490 --> 00:43:02,623
We're a good team and we know...

989
00:43:02,667 --> 00:43:04,538
we think
we're a pretty good team.

990
00:43:04,582 --> 00:43:05,974
They're made to vows as well,

991
00:43:06,018 --> 00:43:07,672
and when we come against them,
yeah, we wanna win.

992
00:43:07,715 --> 00:43:10,196
And the Americans
with the double play possibility

993
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:11,763
still very much alive.

994
00:43:11,806 --> 00:43:13,765
They got themselves out of
a first and second one-out jam

995
00:43:13,808 --> 00:43:16,158
in the fourth inning
with a double play ball

996
00:43:16,202 --> 00:43:19,379
back to the mound, 1-5-3.

997
00:43:19,422 --> 00:43:20,772
- Anglin,

998
00:43:20,815 --> 00:43:22,034
a liner back up the middle.

999
00:43:22,077 --> 00:43:23,296
That's in the center field
for a base hit.

1000
00:43:23,339 --> 00:43:24,950
It gets out to Brittany Gomez
in a hurry.

1001
00:43:24,993 --> 00:43:26,212
She kicks it.

1002
00:43:26,255 --> 00:43:28,083
Coming around third base
is Kim McMillan.

1003
00:43:28,127 --> 00:43:30,869
The throw to the plate
is not in time!

1004
00:43:32,435 --> 00:43:33,872
McMillan scores

1005
00:43:33,915 --> 00:43:36,265
and the Australians
have their five run margin.

1006
00:43:36,309 --> 00:43:38,267
They lead at 6-1 here
in the fifth.

1007
00:43:41,444 --> 00:43:42,881
You know, you can tell
who's been working

1008
00:43:42,924 --> 00:43:45,666
on their women's baseball
program and who hasn't.

1009
00:43:45,710 --> 00:43:48,669
I think women's baseball
is a sport in Australia.

1010
00:43:48,713 --> 00:43:50,802
Women's baseball
is not a sport in the States.

1011
00:43:50,845 --> 00:43:53,892
Our country doesn't even
know women's baseball exists.

1012
00:43:53,935 --> 00:43:57,373
I get tired of saying, yes,
I meant women's baseball.

1013
00:43:57,417 --> 00:43:58,679
Hello.

1014
00:43:58,723 --> 00:44:00,159
Oh, you mean softball?

1015
00:44:00,202 --> 00:44:02,901
"There's no way you
coach baseball if it's women."

1016
00:44:02,944 --> 00:44:04,380
Kind of an interesting fact

1017
00:44:04,424 --> 00:44:07,557
that her connection with this
Australian women's team.

1018
00:44:07,601 --> 00:44:08,950
There's a speeding wind up
to the right field.

1019
00:44:08,994 --> 00:44:10,256
That one ducked down
for a base hit.

1020
00:44:10,299 --> 00:44:11,910
It's gonna bring home
at least one.

1021
00:44:11,953 --> 00:44:13,999
If no one scores, third base.

1022
00:44:14,042 --> 00:44:16,741
Running around third base
and scoring is now Anglin,

1023
00:44:16,784 --> 00:44:19,178
and the Aussies have built
the lead to seven runs now.

1024
00:44:19,221 --> 00:44:20,614
It's 8-1.

1025
00:44:20,658 --> 00:44:22,355
We were hoping
we'd never see this day.

1026
00:44:22,398 --> 00:44:24,400
Rounding third base,
coming to the plate is Doty.

1027
00:44:24,444 --> 00:44:26,489
No throw in time
and the Aussies continue

1028
00:44:26,533 --> 00:44:28,535
to add to the lead,
that's now an 8-1 lead.

1029
00:44:28,578 --> 00:44:30,711
The other countries...

1030
00:44:30,755 --> 00:44:35,368
will eventually surpass us
if somebody doesn't step up.

1031
00:44:38,023 --> 00:44:39,459
Seeing time
in professional sports.

1032
00:44:40,982 --> 00:44:42,854
Another tease,
and she just pitched her team

1033
00:44:42,897 --> 00:44:44,246
to the final out of a victory

1034
00:44:44,290 --> 00:44:46,988
and a passive win
over the United States

1035
00:44:47,032 --> 00:44:49,338
as a fly out from Jade Gortarez
will end it,

1036
00:44:49,382 --> 00:44:52,472
and Australia wallops the USA.

1037
00:44:52,515 --> 00:44:54,909
Our final score
in game number 14

1038
00:44:54,953 --> 00:44:57,782
of the 2016
Women's Baseball World Cup.

1039
00:44:57,825 --> 00:44:58,957
The Emeralds
all over the Americans.

1040
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:00,785
Today,
we were swinging bats

1041
00:45:00,828 --> 00:45:02,612
and it didn't matter
who came in to pitch.

1042
00:45:02,656 --> 00:45:05,398
I think our backs against
the wall helped us a little bit.

1043
00:45:05,441 --> 00:45:08,401
Yeah, I should like to know.

1044
00:45:08,444 --> 00:45:10,403
Aren't we all, hey?

1045
00:45:10,446 --> 00:45:11,709
All right,
let's get to work!

1046
00:45:20,630 --> 00:45:22,937
- Are you okay?
-I guess.

1047
00:45:22,981 --> 00:45:25,766
Just after we lost
to Australia,

1048
00:45:25,810 --> 00:45:27,376
Hong Kong had to beat
Chinese Taipei

1049
00:45:27,420 --> 00:45:29,857
in order for us to advance.

1050
00:45:29,901 --> 00:45:31,641
And everyone's
just crushed,

1051
00:45:31,685 --> 00:45:33,513
and we're trying not to cry.

1052
00:45:33,556 --> 00:45:36,168
We went and watched
the game on TV as a team,

1053
00:45:36,211 --> 00:45:39,258
just to support Hong Kong
at that point.

1054
00:45:39,301 --> 00:45:42,304
The American team,
wherever they are right now,

1055
00:45:42,348 --> 00:45:45,481
anxiously awaiting the outcome
of this game.

1056
00:45:45,525 --> 00:45:47,657
It was so absurd,
it was so horrible.

1057
00:45:47,701 --> 00:45:49,529
And you had to listen
to the  announcer

1058
00:45:49,572 --> 00:45:52,358
just say every two minutes
about how it unfolded,

1059
00:45:52,401 --> 00:45:53,576
and how we're out.

1060
00:46:01,933 --> 00:46:04,500
I didn't have,
like, five minutes to myself

1061
00:46:04,544 --> 00:46:07,112
to really internalize
and probably go break something,

1062
00:46:07,155 --> 00:46:10,463
so I'm sitting there, like,
with this devastating blow

1063
00:46:10,506 --> 00:46:12,987
of "This is the end
of my career."

1064
00:46:13,031 --> 00:46:14,206
All these things like, you know,

1065
00:46:14,249 --> 00:46:16,774
I had visioned
watching this stupid game.

1066
00:46:19,907 --> 00:46:21,474
You know, you think about it,
it's like this is something

1067
00:46:21,517 --> 00:46:23,737
that you train for
for two years,

1068
00:46:23,781 --> 00:46:25,652
and then at the drop of a hat,

1069
00:46:25,695 --> 00:46:27,741
something happens and
you're just out of it like that.

1070
00:46:27,785 --> 00:46:30,962
And this ballgame is over.

1071
00:46:31,005 --> 00:46:33,094
Moving on to the Super Round.

1072
00:46:33,138 --> 00:46:34,835
The United States
has been eliminated.

1073
00:46:34,879 --> 00:46:37,664
Chinese Taipei, the top seed
coming out of Group C,

1074
00:46:37,707 --> 00:46:40,754
will join Australia coming up
starting on Wednesday

1075
00:46:40,798 --> 00:46:42,408
for Super Round action.

1076
00:46:46,978 --> 00:46:48,980
I was very emotional
that night,

1077
00:46:49,023 --> 00:46:52,940
and, uh, everyone was just,
you know, quiet.

1078
00:46:57,684 --> 00:46:59,686
I don't like losing,
like, at all.

1079
00:46:59,729 --> 00:47:02,602
So when I come across that,
it's definitely hard for me

1080
00:47:02,645 --> 00:47:04,778
to accept and to go through.

1081
00:47:04,822 --> 00:47:07,955
And it is, like, a real bummer,
because we're a good team.

1082
00:47:11,045 --> 00:47:12,438
You know when you have
to tell people what happened,

1083
00:47:12,481 --> 00:47:13,656
that's always hard.

1084
00:47:13,700 --> 00:47:15,397
Like, ooh, like, you know,
you get a text.

1085
00:47:15,441 --> 00:47:17,008
"How are you guys doing,
are you winning?"

1086
00:47:17,051 --> 00:47:20,663
And it's like, "Well, five days
ago this is what happened",

1087
00:47:20,707 --> 00:47:22,187
and you have to keep
re-bringing it up.

1088
00:47:29,455 --> 00:47:32,327
And seeing
how desperate we were

1089
00:47:32,371 --> 00:47:33,676
for those YouTube streams,

1090
00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:35,722
and how desperate we were
for those articles,

1091
00:47:35,765 --> 00:47:37,071
and we finally got it.

1092
00:47:37,115 --> 00:47:38,986
Like, this was the tournament
where it seemed

1093
00:47:39,030 --> 00:47:40,988
like everything was right there,

1094
00:47:41,032 --> 00:47:42,598
and if we could make a run
for the gold,

1095
00:47:42,642 --> 00:47:43,948
it would have been
a great story,

1096
00:47:43,991 --> 00:47:45,775
and everybody
would have picked it up.

1097
00:47:45,819 --> 00:47:49,257
And then now, here we are
in the consolation pool.

1098
00:47:52,304 --> 00:47:55,263
And to feel like
you've let down your country,

1099
00:47:55,307 --> 00:47:59,485
or your family, or whatever
sacrifices you made back home,

1100
00:47:59,528 --> 00:48:01,226
that's a tough pill to swallow.

1101
00:48:04,185 --> 00:48:06,231
And there are things that put it
in perspective too.

1102
00:48:06,274 --> 00:48:09,712
Like last night
when we played Pakistan,

1103
00:48:09,756 --> 00:48:13,978
the, the challenges
that those women

1104
00:48:14,021 --> 00:48:16,067
have gone through
to play the game.

1105
00:48:16,110 --> 00:48:18,939
Yeah, yeah, I want
you to go from, so down up.

1106
00:48:20,985 --> 00:48:24,031
In Pakistan, people don't like
to see women sport too much.

1107
00:48:24,075 --> 00:48:25,554
That's why some of the girls

1108
00:48:25,598 --> 00:48:27,600
don't do practice regularly.

1109
00:48:27,643 --> 00:48:31,734
My family's not supporting me
as really to, uh, play.

1110
00:48:31,778 --> 00:48:34,085
I don't go outside
of my hometown,

1111
00:48:34,128 --> 00:48:36,783
even for shopping,
for university, or anything.

1112
00:48:36,826 --> 00:48:41,744
You have to go with your father,
or your mother, someone.

1113
00:48:41,788 --> 00:48:43,181
It gets really difficult

1114
00:48:43,224 --> 00:48:44,965
to take off from job,
because every girl's

1115
00:48:45,009 --> 00:48:47,402
having financial problem
in Pakistan.

1116
00:48:47,446 --> 00:48:48,926
When you go back
to your country,

1117
00:48:48,969 --> 00:48:50,449
you don't have anything to do.

1118
00:48:50,492 --> 00:48:52,146
You could lose your job.

1119
00:48:54,888 --> 00:48:56,629
If you are saying
that they are not

1120
00:48:56,672 --> 00:48:59,545
that capable to play baseball
in the USA,

1121
00:48:59,588 --> 00:49:03,027
just imagine your national game
and the other country

1122
00:49:03,070 --> 00:49:05,464
are playing for it,
and they are winning from you,

1123
00:49:05,507 --> 00:49:06,726
you should work on it.

1124
00:49:12,645 --> 00:49:14,734
In a stunning
final-inning comeback,

1125
00:49:14,777 --> 00:49:16,866
Venezuela scored
the walk off run

1126
00:49:16,910 --> 00:49:20,000
against Chinese Taipei
to take home the bronze.

1127
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:27,442
And in the lopsided
gold medal game,

1128
00:49:27,486 --> 00:49:29,009
Japan defeated Canada

1129
00:49:29,053 --> 00:49:32,099
to take home the gold
for the fifth time in a row.

1130
00:49:36,799 --> 00:49:38,236
For the first time

1131
00:49:38,279 --> 00:49:40,803
in the history
of the World Cup games,

1132
00:49:40,847 --> 00:49:45,112
Team USA watched the final games from the stands.

1133
00:49:45,156 --> 00:49:48,463
One loss, no medals,
that's tough.

1134
00:49:48,507 --> 00:49:50,900
And we knew
what the math formula was,

1135
00:49:50,944 --> 00:49:53,816
and we didn't work out
in the end of that formula.

1136
00:49:55,079 --> 00:49:57,907
At times, it can be frustrating

1137
00:49:57,951 --> 00:50:00,040
when you look back
and you feel like,

1138
00:50:00,084 --> 00:50:02,347
"This is as far as we've gone?"

1139
00:50:14,141 --> 00:50:15,447
What great experiences

1140
00:50:15,490 --> 00:50:17,188
playing against the USA before.

1141
00:50:17,231 --> 00:50:20,234
I'm so bummed that we couldn't
play each other this time.

1142
00:50:20,278 --> 00:50:22,976
Yes, yes, yes!

1143
00:50:25,022 --> 00:50:28,851
With us not playing Canada,
with us not playing Japan,

1144
00:50:28,895 --> 00:50:32,072
some of the most beautiful
baseball you'll see

1145
00:50:32,116 --> 00:50:35,815
in the women's game is not
gonna be exposed to the world.

1146
00:50:35,858 --> 00:50:39,340
-Thank you.

1147
00:50:39,384 --> 00:50:40,515
There's no crying
in baseball.

1148
00:50:40,559 --> 00:50:41,777
I know, cheers.

1149
00:50:43,214 --> 00:50:44,389
It's been a pleasure
playing against all of you.

1150
00:50:48,741 --> 00:50:50,525
You guys
are great competitors, and...

1151
00:50:52,049 --> 00:50:54,094
I have nothing but the highest
respect for all of you.

1152
00:51:01,275 --> 00:51:04,104
Yes, yes, yes!

1153
00:51:04,148 --> 00:51:08,326
Yes, yes, yes!

1154
00:51:08,369 --> 00:51:11,633
Woo!

1155
00:51:16,812 --> 00:51:19,728
So what's
your future with baseball?

1156
00:51:19,772 --> 00:51:22,079
I don't know.

1157
00:51:22,122 --> 00:51:23,863
I really don't know. Um...

1158
00:51:40,532 --> 00:51:41,707
We've been together now,

1159
00:51:41,750 --> 00:51:43,143
it'll be three weeks about,
right?

1160
00:51:43,187 --> 00:51:45,406
So, you know, when you have
that lifestyle,

1161
00:51:45,450 --> 00:51:47,974
then you have to go back home,
it's like...

1162
00:51:48,017 --> 00:51:52,065
well, back home
to the regular, old grind.

1163
00:51:52,109 --> 00:51:54,459
I don't like
leaving this team

1164
00:51:54,502 --> 00:51:56,156
when we get so close together.
It's...

1165
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:57,636
You get used to everyday life.

1166
00:51:57,679 --> 00:51:59,420
Just going on the bus,
eating together,

1167
00:51:59,464 --> 00:52:01,118
playing games,
going back, hanging out.

1168
00:52:01,161 --> 00:52:03,076
So you get in such of a system

1169
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:06,253
that you dread the,
like the, separation.

1170
00:52:06,297 --> 00:52:08,560
We just vibe, like,
really well together

1171
00:52:08,603 --> 00:52:10,692
and get along so well,
because we understand

1172
00:52:10,736 --> 00:52:12,477
what we went through
when we were younger.

1173
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,044
People would say, "Oh, I
totally get what you're saying."

1174
00:52:15,088 --> 00:52:16,263
Like,
"I know what you're feeling."

1175
00:52:16,307 --> 00:52:17,830
Like, "No, you don't." Like...

1176
00:52:17,873 --> 00:52:19,179
You're not a girl
that plays baseball,

1177
00:52:19,223 --> 00:52:20,267
you don't know what I mean.

1178
00:52:22,095 --> 00:52:24,880
I could do a career
165 days a year,

1179
00:52:24,924 --> 00:52:27,840
and I guarantee you, everyone
else would say the same thing.

1180
00:52:27,883 --> 00:52:30,234
If you could just do this,

1181
00:52:30,277 --> 00:52:31,887
it would be just like guys
in the major leagues.

1182
00:52:31,931 --> 00:52:32,975
That's what they do.

1183
00:52:35,021 --> 00:52:36,544
Few opportunities exist

1184
00:52:36,588 --> 00:52:38,851
for these players beyond
the national team.

1185
00:52:38,894 --> 00:52:41,332
And two years
is a long time to wait

1186
00:52:41,375 --> 00:52:43,160
for the next World Cup games.

1187
00:52:45,553 --> 00:52:47,947
Following their bronze
medal victory,

1188
00:52:47,990 --> 00:52:51,603
Venezuela mandated a new
women's professional league.

1189
00:52:52,734 --> 00:52:55,346
In 2001, Japan opened baseball

1190
00:52:55,389 --> 00:52:56,608
to its girls and women,

1191
00:52:56,651 --> 00:53:00,438
leading to professional
opportunities.

1192
00:53:00,481 --> 00:53:04,311
Australian baseball is as open
to women as it is to men.

1193
00:53:04,355 --> 00:53:07,445
And the Canadians now have rules and policies in place

1194
00:53:07,488 --> 00:53:08,968
to allow equal access.

1195
00:53:12,319 --> 00:53:15,496
The break that our women
are more or less forced to take

1196
00:53:15,540 --> 00:53:18,369
in their baseball
development is...

1197
00:53:18,412 --> 00:53:20,109
a monumental hurdle.

1198
00:53:20,153 --> 00:53:23,461
The US Women's
National Team returned home,

1199
00:53:23,504 --> 00:53:24,810
not knowing when their next

1200
00:53:24,853 --> 00:53:28,161
baseball opportunity
would arrive.

1201
00:53:28,205 --> 00:53:30,076
They work hard
to stay in the game,

1202
00:53:30,119 --> 00:53:32,992
training and practicing
wherever they can.

1203
00:53:33,035 --> 00:53:35,037
Many return to their day jobs,

1204
00:53:35,081 --> 00:53:37,910
while others pursued education.

1205
00:53:37,953 --> 00:53:39,825
Kelsie accepted
a full scholarship

1206
00:53:39,868 --> 00:53:42,567
to Cal State Fullerton
for softball.

1207
00:53:43,568 --> 00:53:44,656
I still constantly think

1208
00:53:44,699 --> 00:53:46,092
of baseball every single day.

1209
00:53:46,135 --> 00:53:48,094
I'll go out of my way
to get ready for the summer,

1210
00:53:48,137 --> 00:53:49,791
and, yeah, like,
I am playing softball,

1211
00:53:49,835 --> 00:53:51,228
so it's hard to think, like,

1212
00:53:51,271 --> 00:53:52,838
"Is this still something
I can do?"

1213
00:53:56,755 --> 00:53:59,714
Twenty-five years ago,
I was told to quit baseball,

1214
00:53:59,758 --> 00:54:03,892
and yet in 2017, we're still
seeing the same thing.

1215
00:54:03,936 --> 00:54:06,155
It happened to me
in pro-ball my last year.

1216
00:54:06,199 --> 00:54:09,289
I had a phenomenal year,
good strikeout to walk ratio,

1217
00:54:09,333 --> 00:54:10,943
and had some innings pitched.

1218
00:54:10,986 --> 00:54:12,640
Was talking to two teams
and they're like,

1219
00:54:12,684 --> 00:54:14,729
"Hey, we're gonna invite you
to spring training camp."

1220
00:54:14,773 --> 00:54:17,863
And then I never got that call,
so I called them up.

1221
00:54:17,906 --> 00:54:20,039
And they're like,
"We don't want the media.

1222
00:54:20,082 --> 00:54:21,780
We don't want all the hoopla
that comes with it.

1223
00:54:21,823 --> 00:54:23,869
We don't want you
to be a distraction

1224
00:54:23,912 --> 00:54:26,698
to Major League Baseball."

1225
00:54:26,741 --> 00:54:29,570
To me, girls playing baseball
is a social justice issue.

1226
00:54:29,614 --> 00:54:31,746
If you tell a girl
she can't play baseball,

1227
00:54:31,790 --> 00:54:33,531
what else will she think
she can't do?

1228
00:54:33,574 --> 00:54:35,924
How can you tell a young girl

1229
00:54:35,968 --> 00:54:40,015
who falls in love with the sport
at an early age

1230
00:54:40,059 --> 00:54:42,191
that she can't play it?

1231
00:54:42,235 --> 00:54:44,150
Boys are allowed
that dream.

1232
00:54:44,193 --> 00:54:46,544
I actually have a funny
statistic on my phone

1233
00:54:46,587 --> 00:54:48,546
that I read to my athletes
all the time.

1234
00:54:48,589 --> 00:54:52,506
"There are currently 455,000
high school players.

1235
00:54:52,550 --> 00:54:55,422
There are 25,000
college players.

1236
00:54:55,466 --> 00:54:59,383
There are 3,510 D1 scholarships.

1237
00:54:59,426 --> 00:55:02,429
There are 750
major league players.

1238
00:55:02,473 --> 00:55:04,866
So all these boys can play,

1239
00:55:04,910 --> 00:55:06,215
because they're chasing down
a dream

1240
00:55:06,259 --> 00:55:08,043
and it's less
than one percent likelihood,

1241
00:55:08,087 --> 00:55:10,350
and our girls can't
'cause it's zero percent?"

1242
00:55:11,046 --> 00:55:12,309
It's comical.

1243
00:55:14,006 --> 00:55:15,181
In the early years,

1244
00:55:15,224 --> 00:55:17,879
women weren't
the only ones excluded.

1245
00:55:17,923 --> 00:55:21,535
When Branch Rickey wanted
to bring Jackie Robinson up,

1246
00:55:21,579 --> 00:55:24,756
there were men who said
he doesn't have what it takes,

1247
00:55:24,799 --> 00:55:28,542
athletically, physiologically,
because he's black.

1248
00:55:28,586 --> 00:55:30,588
Thinking about the girls,

1249
00:55:30,631 --> 00:55:32,851
and how they've been
discriminated against,

1250
00:55:32,894 --> 00:55:35,027
I say this is
an absolute parallel

1251
00:55:35,070 --> 00:55:36,985
between what happened
to my father.

1252
00:55:45,385 --> 00:55:48,954
You're out of the game, Kelly.
Get off the field.

1253
00:55:48,997 --> 00:55:51,565
Next time I get on base,
watch out for spikes.

1254
00:55:51,609 --> 00:55:54,133
It was a strength
of character.

1255
00:55:54,176 --> 00:55:57,832
That is what helped him
to survive and sustain,

1256
00:55:57,876 --> 00:56:00,574
until it got to the point
where of acceptance.

1257
00:56:00,618 --> 00:56:02,968
And Jackie Robinson
is at the plate.

1258
00:56:03,011 --> 00:56:04,839
Come on, Jackie, boy!

1259
00:56:04,883 --> 00:56:08,103
He can't bunt now,
he's got to hit straight away.

1260
00:56:10,802 --> 00:56:12,107
Okay, let's face it.

1261
00:56:12,151 --> 00:56:15,981
Women have always tried
to secretly compete.

1262
00:56:16,024 --> 00:56:18,026
- Do you believe that?
- Secretly?

1263
00:56:18,070 --> 00:56:19,550
That's right, secretly compete

1264
00:56:19,593 --> 00:56:20,420
- against men.
- They're not doing

1265
00:56:20,464 --> 00:56:21,900
very well. Doing the secret.

1266
00:56:21,943 --> 00:56:23,771
But once in a while, I have to give it to you ladies.

1267
00:56:23,815 --> 00:56:24,903
You do get lucky.

1268
00:56:24,946 --> 00:56:26,078
America's favorite pastime

1269
00:56:26,121 --> 00:56:28,254
takes a swing
at the record books,

1270
00:56:28,297 --> 00:56:31,170
signing not one,
but two female players

1271
00:56:31,213 --> 00:56:32,911
for minor league ball.

1272
00:56:32,954 --> 00:56:36,436
It was 25-year-old Stacy Piagno on the mound,

1273
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:39,744
and 17-year-old
Kelsie Whitmore in left field.

1274
00:56:39,787 --> 00:56:41,572
Getting a chance
to continue to play,

1275
00:56:41,615 --> 00:56:43,965
um, as a woman,
means a lot to me.

1276
00:56:44,009 --> 00:56:45,445
Just like
any other ball player,

1277
00:56:45,489 --> 00:56:47,969
they drew the attention
of young autograph hounds

1278
00:56:48,013 --> 00:56:49,971
and fans in the stands.

1279
00:56:50,015 --> 00:56:52,321
First I heard about it,
they said there was one,

1280
00:56:52,365 --> 00:56:54,106
and then they said
there was two.

1281
00:56:54,149 --> 00:56:55,324
And I was like,
"That's so cool."

1282
00:56:55,368 --> 00:56:57,588
What makes this
even more shocking,

1283
00:56:57,631 --> 00:56:59,677
they weren't even lesbians,
that's crazy.

1284
00:56:59,720 --> 00:57:00,895
Wow.

1285
00:57:00,939 --> 00:57:02,723
There is an unbelievable
amount of pressure

1286
00:57:02,767 --> 00:57:04,159
for them to succeed,
not just for them,

1287
00:57:04,203 --> 00:57:05,857
but for their entire gender.

1288
00:57:05,900 --> 00:57:07,162
So, I remember
my first day here

1289
00:57:07,206 --> 00:57:08,555
and Stacy was throwing.

1290
00:57:08,599 --> 00:57:10,122
So I kinda just watched her
and she would say,

1291
00:57:10,165 --> 00:57:11,863
"Hey, was that downhill plane?"

1292
00:57:11,906 --> 00:57:12,994
And, "How was the velocity
on that?"

1293
00:57:13,038 --> 00:57:14,126
And I was like, "No way."

1294
00:57:14,169 --> 00:57:16,345
She was talking like a pitcher.

1295
00:57:16,389 --> 00:57:17,825
And they're the first ones
out there every day

1296
00:57:17,869 --> 00:57:19,348
and getting their work done.

1297
00:57:19,392 --> 00:57:22,482
Man, I wish my boys
the same way.

1298
00:57:22,526 --> 00:57:25,137
Then we automatically, we gonna
have the best team anyway.

1299
00:57:25,180 --> 00:57:27,879
I really feel like this
team is such a great family

1300
00:57:27,922 --> 00:57:30,098
and I feel so welcomed
by everyone.

1301
00:57:30,142 --> 00:57:31,752
Like these guys
are my brothers out here,

1302
00:57:31,796 --> 00:57:33,406
close to my sister.

1303
00:57:34,581 --> 00:57:36,061
Just stay strong, ladies,

1304
00:57:36,104 --> 00:57:39,238
and rest assured
that men all over the world

1305
00:57:39,281 --> 00:57:41,370
will be behind you
every time you bend over

1306
00:57:41,414 --> 00:57:42,807
to pick up that weight, okay?

1307
00:57:42,850 --> 00:57:44,286
Now there's gonna be doubters.

1308
00:57:44,330 --> 00:57:45,636
There's always gonna be
people who doubt them,

1309
00:57:45,679 --> 00:57:47,507
but they, and they know that.

1310
00:57:47,551 --> 00:57:48,813
They're just gonna
prove them wrong.

1311
00:57:48,856 --> 00:57:50,379
They're gonna go out there
and they will work

1312
00:57:50,423 --> 00:57:53,252
ten times harder than the
naysayers and all that stuff.

1313
00:57:53,295 --> 00:57:55,036
She would not have gotten
that opportunity

1314
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:57,778
without this sort
of crazy experiment coming

1315
00:57:57,822 --> 00:58:00,346
from Francis Ford Coppola
and his people at Virginia Dare.

1316
00:58:00,389 --> 00:58:01,608
If they can play the game

1317
00:58:01,652 --> 00:58:04,655
and if some smart talent scout
spots them,

1318
00:58:04,698 --> 00:58:06,961
I don't believe
there is any barrier.

1319
00:58:07,005 --> 00:58:08,267
Once and for all,

1320
00:58:08,310 --> 00:58:11,618
defines that
a professional baseball,

1321
00:58:11,662 --> 00:58:13,185
there is no prohibition.

1322
00:58:16,231 --> 00:58:17,929
I do feel a responsibility

1323
00:58:17,972 --> 00:58:20,758
to, you know, stand up
for women's baseball.

1324
00:58:20,801 --> 00:58:22,977
There is a girl
who came out just last night.

1325
00:58:23,021 --> 00:58:24,283
She was going into high school,

1326
00:58:24,326 --> 00:58:25,632
having trouble with her coach.

1327
00:58:25,676 --> 00:58:28,243
And we gave her a lot of talk.

1328
00:58:28,287 --> 00:58:30,115
And, um,
she was just so thankful.

1329
00:58:30,158 --> 00:58:31,986
And she's going
to a new high school

1330
00:58:32,030 --> 00:58:33,379
and it's looking
pretty good for her.

1331
00:58:33,422 --> 00:58:35,250
Like, she's hopefully
will be able

1332
00:58:35,294 --> 00:58:36,687
to play on our team down there.

1333
00:58:40,995 --> 00:58:44,738
I don't know
if the issue really has to be,

1334
00:58:44,782 --> 00:58:48,437
"Do women have to play
with men at the elite levels?"

1335
00:58:48,481 --> 00:58:50,222
Yeah, would it be great,
and, yeah,

1336
00:58:50,265 --> 00:58:52,441
do I think that there
are talented women

1337
00:58:52,485 --> 00:58:54,661
that will eventually have
the opportunity to do that?

1338
00:58:54,705 --> 00:58:57,359
Absolutely,
but we're not there yet,

1339
00:58:57,403 --> 00:58:58,926
and we shouldn't focus on that.

1340
00:59:00,319 --> 00:59:02,103
If we keep
celebrating the one girl

1341
00:59:02,147 --> 00:59:05,585
that plays with the boys,
we're never gonna get anywhere.

1342
00:59:05,629 --> 00:59:07,892
We're just gonna keep
celebrating superstars.

1343
00:59:09,633 --> 00:59:11,852
When I was a girl,
what would have I liked?

1344
00:59:11,896 --> 00:59:13,288
I'd like to play
with other girls.

1345
00:59:18,337 --> 00:59:20,252
I made it work.
I hit a few people.

1346
00:59:20,295 --> 00:59:21,862
What's the definition of work?

1347
00:59:21,906 --> 00:59:23,385
Struck out one.

1348
00:59:23,429 --> 00:59:25,344
Six months
after the World Cup loss,

1349
00:59:25,387 --> 00:59:28,390
players from Team USA
came to coach young girls

1350
00:59:28,434 --> 00:59:31,698
from across the country, and be a part of an opportunity

1351
00:59:31,742 --> 00:59:34,701
they could only have dreamed of
for themselves.

1352
00:59:34,745 --> 00:59:36,964
Malaika was telling one
of the little girls on our team,

1353
00:59:37,008 --> 00:59:40,620
super talkative, "Hey, so
your coach, Tamara Holmes,

1354
00:59:40,664 --> 00:59:43,971
she loves it when you go up
and you talk to her."

1355
00:59:44,015 --> 00:59:45,494
She said, "She doesn't like
to be left alone."

1356
00:59:45,538 --> 00:59:47,061
See, I'm standing with her.

1357
00:59:47,105 --> 00:59:48,193
Oh, good, yes!

1358
00:59:48,236 --> 00:59:50,021
They're all great.

1359
00:59:50,064 --> 00:59:51,152
Why don't you play softball?

1360
00:59:51,196 --> 00:59:52,763
You'd be good at softball.

1361
00:59:52,806 --> 00:59:54,329
Bleh!

1362
00:59:54,373 --> 00:59:56,636
It's so much harder
than baseball.

1363
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,726
I wanna congratulate
the players participating

1364
00:59:59,770 --> 01:00:02,468
in our inaugural
Trailblazer Series

1365
01:00:02,511 --> 01:00:04,644
hosted by Major League Baseball.

1366
01:00:04,688 --> 01:00:07,255
We know this tournament
will forge a path

1367
01:00:07,299 --> 01:00:10,476
for the next generation of women who play our great game.

1368
01:00:11,695 --> 01:00:13,000
We decided,
"Hey, let's do something

1369
01:00:13,044 --> 01:00:14,611
around Jackie Robinson."

1370
01:00:14,654 --> 01:00:17,439
He's a trailblazer and he paved
the way for a lot of people.

1371
01:00:17,483 --> 01:00:18,876
Let's put together
a tournament that...

1372
01:00:18,919 --> 01:00:20,660
that highlights his pathway.

1373
01:00:26,231 --> 01:00:27,667
14S slacks, yes?

1374
01:00:27,711 --> 01:00:29,103
That could be.

1375
01:00:29,147 --> 01:00:30,670
I think it has
to start at the youth level.

1376
01:00:30,714 --> 01:00:33,673
We've gotta find ways
to deepen our pool.

1377
01:00:33,717 --> 01:00:35,675
We gotta continue, you know,
getting the word out that,

1378
01:00:35,719 --> 01:00:36,937
yes, women do play.

1379
01:00:36,981 --> 01:00:38,069
-Fine.
-Is there something

1380
01:00:38,112 --> 01:00:39,723
I should know about you?
Are you...

1381
01:00:39,766 --> 01:00:41,289
I ask a lot of questions.

1382
01:00:41,333 --> 01:00:42,769
Oh, good,
I have a lot of answers.

1383
01:00:42,813 --> 01:00:44,553
Really, it's the first step,

1384
01:00:44,597 --> 01:00:47,295
first time series
for young girls in baseball.

1385
01:00:47,339 --> 01:00:48,819
Then, of course, you know,
we're excited,

1386
01:00:48,862 --> 01:00:50,690
and excited
to see where it goes.

1387
01:00:50,734 --> 01:00:52,736
They all said this was
the first time they've done it,

1388
01:00:52,779 --> 01:00:54,651
ever played with other girls.

1389
01:00:54,694 --> 01:00:57,001
I think it's really cool
that the MLB

1390
01:00:57,044 --> 01:01:00,526
has finally decided
to chip in on girls baseball,

1391
01:01:00,569 --> 01:01:04,138
because they've been out of it
for so long.

1392
01:01:04,182 --> 01:01:06,706
All right, so we're
gonna start by warming up,

1393
01:01:06,750 --> 01:01:09,056
and we're gonna throw
a really short bullpen

1394
01:01:09,100 --> 01:01:10,710
just to see what you got,

1395
01:01:10,754 --> 01:01:13,017
and then we'll do
an infield, outfield. All right?

1396
01:01:17,325 --> 01:01:21,416
Two, four, four, six,
you guys are hitting.

1397
01:01:21,460 --> 01:01:23,331
The rest of us,
we're just gonna shag.

1398
01:01:23,375 --> 01:01:24,593
You don't have
to say in the infield,

1399
01:01:24,637 --> 01:01:26,857
you can just kinda hang back
in the outfield,

1400
01:01:26,900 --> 01:01:28,728
'cause balls are gonna be going
all over the place.

1401
01:01:28,772 --> 01:01:30,730
I want you to completely
get those hips across

1402
01:01:30,774 --> 01:01:32,558
and use all the power
in your legs, okay?

1403
01:01:32,601 --> 01:01:33,733
Use that ball better.

1404
01:01:33,777 --> 01:01:34,995
-Better.

1405
01:01:35,039 --> 01:01:36,431
That means you, kitty-kat.

1406
01:01:36,475 --> 01:01:37,998
When can I go to the field?

1407
01:01:38,042 --> 01:01:39,217
Not yet, hang tight.

1408
01:01:39,260 --> 01:01:40,697
We're gonna switch
all together, okay?

1409
01:01:40,740 --> 01:01:41,959
I'm pretty sure...

1410
01:01:42,002 --> 01:01:43,090
The girls are so great,
they all work hard.

1411
01:01:43,134 --> 01:01:44,222
They wanna be here.

1412
01:01:44,265 --> 01:01:45,789
They love the game.

1413
01:01:45,832 --> 01:01:47,442
They all remind me
of little versions of myself.

1414
01:01:47,486 --> 01:01:49,749
Little versions of Lincoln.
Holmes too.

1415
01:01:51,403 --> 01:01:53,013
Somebody catch me, catch two.

1416
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:56,495
That's good.

1417
01:01:56,538 --> 01:01:58,192
The challenge is how
do you put this girl

1418
01:01:58,236 --> 01:02:02,283
in front of all kids
to make them connect to it?

1419
01:02:02,327 --> 01:02:04,590
Well, you can see these girls
can play ball.

1420
01:02:04,633 --> 01:02:08,028
And all they... and all we want,
Billy, is a league of our own.

1421
01:02:08,072 --> 01:02:09,682
Yep.

1422
01:02:09,726 --> 01:02:12,598
Before I get six foot
under, I want this thing going,

1423
01:02:12,641 --> 01:02:14,121
and I don't have
many more years,

1424
01:02:14,165 --> 01:02:16,645
so we had better get started.

1425
01:02:19,692 --> 01:02:22,782
Every girl here has
dreamt of playing in the majors.

1426
01:02:22,826 --> 01:02:25,785
Every girl,
so to have Rob Manfred say

1427
01:02:25,829 --> 01:02:27,918
that, you know, "We believe
in you now, we've heard you."

1428
01:02:29,354 --> 01:02:30,355
It matters.

1429
01:02:33,053 --> 01:02:35,099
One of, if not the
most important aspect

1430
01:02:35,142 --> 01:02:36,970
of this tournament are the women

1431
01:02:37,014 --> 01:02:38,929
who have been carrying
the torch for girls

1432
01:02:38,972 --> 01:02:40,800
and women playing baseball long

1433
01:02:40,844 --> 01:02:43,063
before this tournament
was even created.

1434
01:02:43,107 --> 01:02:45,544
And we're proud that we have
so many of them here

1435
01:02:45,587 --> 01:02:46,937
serving as our coaches,

1436
01:02:46,980 --> 01:02:48,808
and I'd like to introduce
them now.

1437
01:02:48,852 --> 01:02:50,114
Marti Sementelli.

1438
01:02:52,943 --> 01:02:54,771
Justine Siegal.

1439
01:02:57,730 --> 01:02:59,471
Malaika Underwood.

1440
01:02:59,514 --> 01:03:02,169
At some point,
it's not just about you

1441
01:03:02,213 --> 01:03:03,649
and what you want,

1442
01:03:03,692 --> 01:03:05,782
and if you have the knowledge
and you have the ability

1443
01:03:05,825 --> 01:03:08,567
to reach out to the kids,
which I hope I do,

1444
01:03:08,610 --> 01:03:11,657
'cause I never thought
I would consider myself

1445
01:03:11,700 --> 01:03:14,965
a coach or in this position,
but now that I'm here, uh,

1446
01:03:15,008 --> 01:03:16,618
it, it's a good feeling.

1447
01:03:16,662 --> 01:03:19,621
And our final
but certainly not least coach,

1448
01:03:19,665 --> 01:03:21,319
Tamara Holmes.

1449
01:03:30,023 --> 01:03:31,198
All right,
we can get on the bus,

1450
01:03:31,242 --> 01:03:33,026
we'll figure it out
if I find her.

1451
01:03:36,029 --> 01:03:39,903
I'm the worst coach
in charge of herding kids.

1452
01:03:41,513 --> 01:03:43,341
♪ Down by the banks
Of the Hanky Panky ♪

1453
01:03:43,384 --> 01:03:45,517
♪ Where the bullfrogs jump
From bank to banky ♪

1454
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:47,736
♪ With a ees uuf, soda puff

1455
01:03:47,780 --> 01:03:49,826
♪ Hey, Mr. Alligator
Ate your puffs ♪

1456
01:03:49,869 --> 01:03:51,958
-Dang it.

1457
01:03:52,002 --> 01:03:53,177
After you're with me,

1458
01:03:53,220 --> 01:03:55,048
we're gonna start
walking out here, okay?

1459
01:03:55,092 --> 01:03:56,963
And I have your tickets
right here.

1460
01:03:57,007 --> 01:03:59,792
Girls, the third inning,
top of the third,

1461
01:03:59,836 --> 01:04:02,186
that's when we're going
to go buy our meals.

1462
01:04:06,712 --> 01:04:08,627
David, just taking a photo.

1463
01:04:10,934 --> 01:04:13,197
This just should not
be a special event.

1464
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:15,199
It should be here
all across the country

1465
01:04:15,242 --> 01:04:17,897
on diamonds in local
communities everywhere.

1466
01:04:17,941 --> 01:04:21,901
This is the first event
that we've done for the girls,

1467
01:04:21,945 --> 01:04:24,599
but what is beyond that,
you know, who knows.

1468
01:04:24,643 --> 01:04:26,471
It could be league,
it could be a woman coach,

1469
01:04:26,514 --> 01:04:28,429
it could be a lot
of different things.

1470
01:04:28,473 --> 01:04:30,823
- Who's the first?
- I am!

1471
01:04:30,867 --> 01:04:32,781
- Who's the best?
- I am!

1472
01:04:32,825 --> 01:04:36,611
-Who are you?
- Trailblazers!

1473
01:04:38,352 --> 01:04:40,224
The Trailblazer Series ended

1474
01:04:40,267 --> 01:04:43,531
with the girls being honored
on the field at Dodger Stadium

1475
01:04:43,575 --> 01:04:47,013
as part of the Jackie Robinson
Day celebration.

1476
01:04:47,057 --> 01:04:49,537
My hopes and dreams
is that this would continue,

1477
01:04:49,581 --> 01:04:51,539
this would be a start,

1478
01:04:51,583 --> 01:04:54,064
and that the girls

1479
01:04:54,107 --> 01:04:58,546
that develop
and really become real talents

1480
01:04:58,590 --> 01:04:59,939
will get an opportunity.

1481
01:04:59,983 --> 01:05:01,201
♪ Can you see

1482
01:05:01,245 --> 01:05:06,641
♪ By the dawn's early light

1483
01:05:06,685 --> 01:05:12,560
♪ What so proudly we hailed

1484
01:05:12,604 --> 01:05:14,519
♪ Free

1485
01:05:14,562 --> 01:05:17,739
♪ And the home

1486
01:05:17,783 --> 01:05:23,136
♪ Of the brave

1487
01:05:29,577 --> 01:05:31,014
For a while,
there were a lot of games

1488
01:05:31,057 --> 01:05:32,319
where we weren't getting in.

1489
01:05:32,363 --> 01:05:34,234
So, you know,
it kinda takes a toll on you.

1490
01:05:34,278 --> 01:05:36,715
It starts to make you feel like,
"Am I ever gonna get in?

1491
01:05:36,758 --> 01:05:38,195
Am I ever gonna get my chance?"

1492
01:05:38,238 --> 01:05:39,892
We're out here,
we're working hard every day,

1493
01:05:39,936 --> 01:05:41,938
physically and mentally,
like I said,

1494
01:05:41,981 --> 01:05:43,113
and it's like
we wanna get out there

1495
01:05:43,156 --> 01:05:44,984
and prove what
we've been working for.

1496
01:05:47,900 --> 01:05:49,206
I mean, we're skeptical.

1497
01:05:49,249 --> 01:05:51,077
We were wondering
whether they were just there

1498
01:05:51,121 --> 01:05:52,470
to fill roster spots,

1499
01:05:52,513 --> 01:05:55,255
or just there to, you know,
for the experience.

1500
01:05:55,299 --> 01:05:56,561
We didn't know
if they would play

1501
01:05:56,604 --> 01:05:58,780
or if they would get
any time on the field.

1502
01:05:59,607 --> 01:06:01,740
I have over 20 years

1503
01:06:01,783 --> 01:06:03,568
of professional
baseball experience.

1504
01:06:03,611 --> 01:06:06,571
Won a World Series with
the St. Louis Cardinals in 2006,

1505
01:06:06,614 --> 01:06:08,834
so it's an interesting thing,
you know?

1506
01:06:08,877 --> 01:06:11,750
A girl is gonna play
professional baseball.

1507
01:06:11,793 --> 01:06:14,448
It's something
you wouldn't normally, uh, see.

1508
01:06:14,492 --> 01:06:16,798
And, you know, they'll joke
about it here and there.

1509
01:06:16,842 --> 01:06:19,540
One of our guys last year,
he hit one home run last year.

1510
01:06:19,584 --> 01:06:21,325
He hit it off of Kelsie.

1511
01:06:21,368 --> 01:06:23,066
It was his first
professional homer,

1512
01:06:23,109 --> 01:06:24,545
and it was his only
professional homer,

1513
01:06:24,589 --> 01:06:26,721
and we said,
"Hey, maybe this year

1514
01:06:26,765 --> 01:06:28,462
you can hit a homer off a guy."

1515
01:06:32,945 --> 01:06:36,209
She was on the mound,
it was the first inning,

1516
01:06:36,253 --> 01:06:38,777
-and she came up like this.

1517
01:06:38,820 --> 01:06:40,953
Add there must have been
500 to 600 people there,

1518
01:06:40,997 --> 01:06:42,737
which for us, is a huge crowd.

1519
01:06:42,781 --> 01:06:47,003
And hushed, I said,
"I've never in my whole life,

1520
01:06:47,046 --> 01:06:48,787
ever been to a baseball game

1521
01:06:48,830 --> 01:06:51,529
where there wasn't
a single sound."

1522
01:06:53,183 --> 01:06:56,055
I felt very comfortable,
I felt in my zone,

1523
01:06:56,099 --> 01:06:59,276
and, you know, from then on out
they were very quick innings,

1524
01:06:59,319 --> 01:07:01,887
and I felt like
I just couldn't be stopped,

1525
01:07:01,930 --> 01:07:05,412
and they just weren't getting
a hold of any of my pitches.

1526
01:07:05,456 --> 01:07:08,633
Last week, the young recruit, she belongs.

1527
01:07:11,201 --> 01:07:12,941
She tossed
seven innings, gave up a run,

1528
01:07:12,985 --> 01:07:15,553
struck out four,
and won the game.

1529
01:07:15,596 --> 01:07:17,294
Just the third female pitcher

1530
01:07:17,337 --> 01:07:18,425
- to claim a victory...

1531
01:07:18,469 --> 01:07:21,602
in a men's league
since the 1950s.

1532
01:07:21,646 --> 01:07:24,257
That night she won,
to me, she looked like

1533
01:07:24,301 --> 01:07:27,695
an ex-big league pitcher
that threw,

1534
01:07:27,739 --> 01:07:29,219
you know, 78 miles an hour.

1535
01:07:29,262 --> 01:07:30,655
Last year,
both me and Kelsie,

1536
01:07:30,698 --> 01:07:32,135
we were both being recognized

1537
01:07:32,178 --> 01:07:35,094
for just being girls
and being here. You know?

1538
01:07:35,138 --> 01:07:37,096
But this year,
what was so special to me

1539
01:07:37,140 --> 01:07:38,967
is that I actually got
recognized for playing,

1540
01:07:39,011 --> 01:07:40,621
and for something
that I've physically done.

1541
01:07:40,665 --> 01:07:42,275
I've grown up playing ball
with Stacy,

1542
01:07:42,319 --> 01:07:45,496
so I was definitely, um, honored
to be part of that game,

1543
01:07:45,539 --> 01:07:46,975
and I was super proud of her.

1544
01:07:47,019 --> 01:07:48,412
I knew she was gonna take care
of business that day.

1545
01:07:48,455 --> 01:07:50,414
And she didn't only pitch well,
she dominated.

1546
01:07:50,457 --> 01:07:51,893
At least I can say
I played with a girl before.

1547
01:07:51,937 --> 01:07:53,373
Not a lot of guys can say that.

1548
01:07:53,417 --> 01:07:54,548
That's probably one
of the coolest things

1549
01:07:54,592 --> 01:07:55,854
I've ever been a part of.

1550
01:07:55,897 --> 01:07:57,116
It was a tough loss to take,

1551
01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:58,378
but she deserved the win

1552
01:07:58,422 --> 01:08:01,164
and it was neat to, uh,
to be here to see her.

1553
01:08:05,559 --> 01:08:07,257
Those of us
who love baseball

1554
01:08:07,300 --> 01:08:08,997
know there's no other game
like baseball.

1555
01:08:10,956 --> 01:08:13,654
As soon as I hear
the sound of a ball

1556
01:08:13,698 --> 01:08:16,918
hitting a leather glove
or see it flying off a bat,

1557
01:08:16,962 --> 01:08:18,442
I'm in love again.

1558
01:08:18,485 --> 01:08:19,878
It's a great game,

1559
01:08:19,921 --> 01:08:23,838
and why can't we be committed

1560
01:08:23,882 --> 01:08:26,928
to saying that half
the population of this nation

1561
01:08:26,972 --> 01:08:29,409
should also have access to it?

1562
01:08:29,453 --> 01:08:31,368
It's not one of those things
where life's not fair.

1563
01:08:31,411 --> 01:08:33,805
No, I mean, this is something
that people can change.

1564
01:08:35,459 --> 01:08:39,071
This adversity,
this bias that they endure

1565
01:08:39,115 --> 01:08:42,161
from an early age, because
of their love of the game

1566
01:08:42,205 --> 01:08:44,381
is a challenge.

1567
01:08:44,424 --> 01:08:47,862
And part of succeeding
is overcoming the challenge.

1568
01:08:50,343 --> 01:08:53,694
I learned so many life lessons
in baseball,

1569
01:08:53,738 --> 01:08:57,176
like as a person, as an athlete,
as a teammate,

1570
01:08:57,220 --> 01:08:58,743
even as a daughter,
like, and as a sister.

1571
01:08:58,786 --> 01:09:00,658
I've been through
so many ups and downs,

1572
01:09:00,701 --> 01:09:04,183
and, like, I've learned so much.

1573
01:09:04,227 --> 01:09:06,707
Baseball is not
only played on the field,

1574
01:09:06,751 --> 01:09:10,450
it is also played in the hearts of players and fans.

1575
01:09:10,494 --> 01:09:12,670
And what is played in the heart is then reflected

1576
01:09:12,713 --> 01:09:14,889
in all other aspects
of our lives,

1577
01:09:14,933 --> 01:09:17,544
from the classrooms
to the living rooms,

1578
01:09:17,588 --> 01:09:20,808
from the boardrooms
to the courtrooms.

1579
01:09:20,852 --> 01:09:23,159
They're playing
baseball now, but you know what?

1580
01:09:23,202 --> 01:09:25,161
They're learning
that they can be anybody.

1581
01:09:27,859 --> 01:09:30,470
The future's
in the smile on these girls.

1582
01:09:30,514 --> 01:09:32,603
Whatever it is,
it's their choice,

1583
01:09:32,646 --> 01:09:34,953
and that's what they're learning
on this baseball field.

1584
01:09:34,996 --> 01:09:36,563
They gotta keep fighting,

1585
01:09:36,607 --> 01:09:38,522
or else, nothing
will really happen,

1586
01:09:38,565 --> 01:09:40,785
but I also think as we go,

1587
01:09:40,828 --> 01:09:42,830
you know, the generations
are getting stronger.

1588
01:09:42,874 --> 01:09:45,964
And the confidence just oozing,
dripping everywhere,

1589
01:09:46,007 --> 01:09:47,922
which is just awesome to see.

1590
01:09:56,279 --> 01:09:58,498
I say I think we're
in the middle

1591
01:09:58,542 --> 01:10:00,544
or beginning of the story,
not at the end,

1592
01:10:00,587 --> 01:10:02,589
and probably, to get to the end,

1593
01:10:02,633 --> 01:10:05,897
we'll go this way and that way,

1594
01:10:05,940 --> 01:10:08,378
and...

1595
01:10:08,421 --> 01:10:11,424
forward and backward,
and everywhere in between.

1596
01:10:16,168 --> 01:10:17,778
For every woman and girl

1597
01:10:17,822 --> 01:10:19,650
who has been denied
the right to play,

1598
01:10:19,693 --> 01:10:21,608
another has stood up.

1599
01:10:21,652 --> 01:10:23,262
The game is far from over,

1600
01:10:23,306 --> 01:10:26,570
but they stand united
with their allies.

1601
01:10:26,613 --> 01:10:29,050
Headed towards one clear goal.

1602
01:10:29,094 --> 01:10:31,575
The freedom
to pursue their dreams.

1603
01:10:31,618 --> 01:10:33,707
The right to play baseball.

1604
01:10:34,447 --> 01:10:35,970
Yeah, yeah!

1605
01:11:10,396 --> 01:11:13,312
At seven,
women's baseball World Cup

1606
01:11:13,356 --> 01:11:15,183
USA, Venezuela.

1607
01:11:15,227 --> 01:11:19,492
Amanda Giovani, a diamond grab
to double up the rudder.

1608
01:11:20,580 --> 01:11:23,583
Robbing, Elise Koalina.

1609
01:11:23,627 --> 01:11:25,846
USA wins by a score
of three to one.

1610
01:11:25,890 --> 01:11:27,152
Like that baseball.

1611
01:11:47,651 --> 01:11:49,217
So, uh, let me get this right,

1612
01:11:49,261 --> 01:11:53,700
so it's gonna be, uh, my name,
what brought me to baseball.

1613
01:11:53,744 --> 01:11:55,920
I swear she wore, like,

1614
01:11:55,963 --> 01:11:58,836
it was like a one piece,
like, tights.

1615
01:11:58,879 --> 01:12:00,751
She, I swear
she wore it during BP.

1616
01:12:00,794 --> 01:12:02,056
Every time I'd look at her,

1617
01:12:02,100 --> 01:12:03,536
I'd just picture
that's what's under her uniform.

1618
01:12:05,016 --> 01:12:06,452
Never leave home
without it.

1619
01:12:09,194 --> 01:12:12,023
And I don't think you can say,
"We want a woman in the pros",

1620
01:12:12,066 --> 01:12:13,764
and then work backward
and go try to find her.

1621
01:12:13,807 --> 01:12:15,287
She may not be alive yet.

1622
01:12:15,331 --> 01:12:17,376
She might be born in February.

1623
01:12:27,299 --> 01:12:28,996
All the rookies
had to sing karaoke

1624
01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:30,781
before the game
in the locker room

1625
01:12:30,824 --> 01:12:32,652
It was really embarrassing.

1626
01:12:38,789 --> 01:12:40,747
She's just anti-visor.

1627
01:12:40,791 --> 01:12:42,227
Does not want to wear it.

1628
01:12:42,270 --> 01:12:44,925
We ordered these, uh,
custom-made Nike baseball hats.

1629
01:12:44,969 --> 01:12:46,840
We're gonna do
a little ceremony,

1630
01:12:46,884 --> 01:12:49,321
and give her,
her, uh, big baseball hat.

1631
01:12:49,365 --> 01:12:51,410
Finally, you've got
something you can wear.

1632
01:12:51,454 --> 01:12:53,064
-So cute.
-Yes.

1633
01:12:56,415 --> 01:12:59,070
We'll play baseball
in a little bit, okay?

1634
01:13:00,506 --> 01:13:02,639
It's okay,
we'll go play baseball.

1635
01:13:26,576 --> 01:13:28,795
-I'm very proud of Marti.
-Oh, my god.

1636
01:13:28,839 --> 01:13:31,102
Would have loved to go further
but, uh, she did good.

1637
01:13:31,145 --> 01:13:32,495
She did everything she could do.

1638
01:13:32,538 --> 01:13:36,194
I can't be any prouder
in you than right now.

1639
01:13:36,237 --> 01:13:37,630
Then buy me a new car.

1640
01:13:37,674 --> 01:13:40,981
No, we'll get some soup
on Witty Street and Waltham.

1641
01:13:41,025 --> 01:13:42,374
Oh, cool, I get soup.

1642
01:13:44,724 --> 01:13:45,986
I mean I've been there.

1643
01:13:46,030 --> 01:13:48,380
A lot of the girls on the team
have been there.

1644
01:13:48,424 --> 01:13:50,426
Isn't that life?

1645
01:13:50,469 --> 01:13:53,472
Don't you have to make those
hard decisions with anything?

1646
01:13:53,516 --> 01:13:55,822
Got a buddy right here.

1647
01:13:55,866 --> 01:14:00,348
Um, you have to make
those decisions, I mean,

1648
01:14:00,392 --> 01:14:03,482
do you wanna move down
to the other busking zone?

1649
01:14:43,348 --> 01:14:44,828
And that's a wrap.

1650
01:14:44,871 --> 01:14:46,394
And that's pepper.