That’s Mike Vitar, the actor who played Benny Rodriguez, the group’s charismatic leader and star player. He wasn’t standing like that in the earlier takes, Evans said. Vitar turned his back ...

The movie closes with a grown-up Smalls, now a Los Angeles Dodgers announcer, giving play-by-play of aging veteran Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez swiping home plate in “the clutch situation of ...