As much fun as baseball clearly is to these kids, The Sandlot never lets us forget that for Benny Rodriguez, it’s more than just a game. Baseball is life.

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 ...

Benny Rodriguez is always the star. The game is always on. It could have felt cornball, but its charms are genuine. “Those kids were right on the money,” Evans said.