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- Hot dogs, hot dogs, hot dogs.
Hot dogs, hot dogs, hot dogs, hot dogs, hot dogs.
Boobies, butts, hot dogs, hot dogs.
Blonde, sassy, hot dogs.
Hot dogs, hot dogs, hot dogs.
Baseball, home run!
Hot dogs, hot dogs. (upbeat music)
♪ Wanna get higher ♪
- If you want the game to be more exciting,
shorten the skirts.
- What the hell are you doing?
- I thought that you would catch it.
- With my back turned? - This is our one shot.
- So what if right here, right now,
we forget the rules.
♪ I wanna take ya ♪
- They don't get to decide if this is real or not.
♪ Yeah ♪
- We do. - Let's go!
- Hello, my name is Roberta Colindrez,
otherwise known as Roberta Colindrez,
and I play Lupe Garcia.
- Hi, I'm Priscilla Delgado, I play Esti.
Second base.
- Hi, I'm Kelly McCormack.
I play Jess McCready,
who is the shortstop of the Rockford Peaches.
- Hi, I'm D'Arcy Carden.
I play Greta Gill.
- Hi, I'm Melanie Field.
I play Jo De Luca.
- Hi, my name is Saidah Arrika Ekulona.
I play Toni Chapman and she is Max's mother.
- And I'm Molly Ephraim.
I play Maybelle Fox, who is a Peach.
- I'm Chante Adams,
and I play Max Chapman, and I am an actor.
(both laugh)
- I'm Abbi Jacobson.
I play Carson Shaw, and I co-created it
with Will Graham.
(upbeat music)
- Lupe Garcia is the pitcher in the Rockford Peaches.
She comes from Texas.
She's got a lot to prove and even more to say.
She is here to work hard.
She's here to win some damn championships
and she's here to really show up for herself
and to prove how good of a baseball player she is
and to not let anyone else define her but her damn self.
Unfortunately, she gets in her own way sometimes.
And that's okay, 'cause that's what teams are for
and friends are for, boom!
- Woo! - Boom.
So what, are you a pitcher? - Yeah.
Have you seen the pitch?
What kind of question is that? - A simple one.
- Esti Gonzalez, the youngest girl in the league.
(speaks in foreign language)
Cuban coming from La Habana.
Doesn't know how to speak English.
What she's gonna do?
Oh my God, Lupe, help.
Maybe she is not.
Are you gonna help me?
- No. - Okay.
So yeah, she's gonna fight for her dreams.
Go play baseball.
How is she gonna communicate?
Oh my God. Crazy world.
- Coca-Cola with the popcorn!
And the popcorn, hey!
Mickey Mouse!
(speaking in foreign language)
- Jess McCready is the shortstop
from Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada,
who's a wily, chain smoking, feral,
straight talking woman, person, human,
of few words, who prefers baseball over everything else.
Baseball is her religion
and maybe women as well and (laughs)
and befriends Lupe and Esti in a bro-manship.
In a sibling-ship for the ages.
And she's shortstop. That's it.
- The end.
- Plow. - Plow.
- Plow.
- We'll go to the Italian church next.
If she's not there then we'll quickly pray
and then, I dunno, she's probably hungry.
So we should go to the grocery store.
The we gotta check the bus. - Been at this all night, Lu.
Let's check back home.
Scared animals always return to the familiar.
- Greta Gill is a confident, cool, swaggy gal
that comes from the big city with her best friend,
Jo De Luca.
She's been all over the world.
She's seen things.
She's done things.
She loves adventure.
But her heart leads her back to baseball
with her best friend, like I said, Jo De Luca.
Oh boy, Greta meets this gal, Carson Shaw,
and you better believe she shakes up her world
and her heart (laughs).
- Keep going, don't stop.
- And maybe there's some love and maybe there's some kissing
and maybe there's some heartbreak, ah!
I want you to make me a promise. Okay?
Whatever happens with this thing, however long it lasts.
Let's rob the bank. Sound good?
- Yeah, that sounds good. - Okay.
- Jo De Luca is an Italian Slugger from Brooklyn.
Her best friend, Greta, basically sisters,
known each other their whole life,
are bosom buddies, inseparable.
Greatest love of her life is this friend right here.
But Jo kind of plays more
of a side kick role in their relationship.
- Hey! - Always having to pick up
after D'Are, Greta's mess. - Greta.
- When she gets an opportunity to play baseball
and becomes the star of the league,
she gets a chance to step out on her own a bit
and see if there might be something else being offered
to her in this wild, wild, new world.
- Hell yes!
That was great.
- God's good.
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned,
but please let me kick ass tomorrow.
Amen.
- Hot dogs, hot dogs, hot dogs.
Hot dogs, hot dogs, hot dogs, hot dogs, hot dogs.
Boobies, butts, hot dogs, hot dogs.
Blonde, sassy, hot dogs.
Hot dogs, hot dogs, hot dogs.
Baseball, home run!
Hot dogs, hot dogs, hot dogs. - Hot dogs.
- Titties, tushy.
Hot dogs, hot dogs, hot dogs, hot dogs.
- Gee. - Sass dogs.
- Is that typecasting, you think?
(Saidah laughs) - Sass dogs.
I had a hot dog bar at my 30th birthday.
So probably. - Oh my gosh, okay.
- A lot of guys, they see all this, they see all this.
They think it's all na na na.
But no way, okay.
I'm gonna talk their ear off
and I'm gonna eat more hot dogs than they can.
I'm gonna outrun 'em.
- Ambitious, loving, career minded, forward thinking,
engaged with the community, engaged with church.
Wonderful, loving relationship with her husband.
- Sexy. - Also very sexy
and highly sexual.
A wonderful relationship with her daughter
in terms of education, live by my experience.
- You forgot hair salon. - Oh, hair stuff, hair salon.
- Wow. - Oh no, sorry.
- Can't believe I won - I just thinking about
some of the cores. - That round.
(Molly laughs) - Yeah, you did.
- Yes, I went to the tryouts.
- So you lied to me.
- If you knew already,
why you have to do this in front of the whole salon?
- Oh, they don't care.
- Oh, we love it.
- I said obviously she went to those tryouts.
I knew it already. - You did not. I said that.
- I was telling you about it. - No you didn't.
It was Thursday. - Okay, you can stop.
- Didn't I say it? - Stop.
- Carson Shaw, Lake Valley, Idaho.
She is running away from everything she's known in her life
to the all American girls professional baseball tryouts.
We're catching her. She gets on this team.
She loves baseball. She's a catcher.
And we're finding her in this moment
in her life where she's like really figuring out herself
and kind of coming into her sexuality.
Her arc is all about, you know,
identifying her queerness,
and then that leads into her really finding her confidence
and becoming this unlikely leader,
and . . . (both laugh)
All right, everybody, get in line.
Line up, right now.
When I talk, you listen.
You, you're starting,
and I'm signing to you and you're taking every single one.
Got it?
- Maxine Chapman, AKA Max.
Born and raised in Rockford Illinois,
daughter of Toni and Edgar Chapman.
She is a baseball player through and through.
That is the one thing that she is so, so passionate about.
I feel like she went to baseball games a lot
with her dad when she was little and she's an only child.
They grew up playing together.
She has a best friend,
who's also kind of like her sister named Clance Morgan,
who just got married to a very, very sexy gentleman,
whatever. (laughs)
But anyway, they're still best friends
and they love each other a whole lot.
Max is battling this huge secret that she is also queer
and she can't come out to her best friend or her parents.
And so she feels kind of alone,
but then she meets Carson, and then we.
(both laugh)
Form an alliance together, save the world,
fight the world. - Take over the world
Save the world from aliens.
And then you gotta stay tuned,
and we need to get picked up,
so we can see what happens next.
- Right.
- Whoa. - Wow.
- Holy field. Who was that?
(upbeat music)
- It would be in the car with this two.
- Aw. - Aw.
That was a fun day.
- And that was a really nice day.
Really special day for me.
- Hey. - I'm gonna cry.
(speaking in foreign language)
- Beverly.
(speaking in foreign language)
- All right, diaz y dos.
Okay, yeah.
- Ooh! - All right, oh, yeah.
Easy now.
(speaking in foreign language)
I mean, I'll say it once and I'll say it again,
being in a bar with Roberta and Rosie O'Donnell?
Our costumes, that set, the cast, the extras, the vibe,
I was completely transported.
And I felt like I was the luckiest person on earth, so.
If you've seen episode six,
you know what we're talking about.
- Yeah. - We had a couple extras
that were great. - Also,
Thanksgiving celebration.
- Aw. - Oh yeah.
Canadian Thanksgiving. - Guys.
- That was great. - I'm gonna cry.
I gave the cast Canadian Thanksgiving as my.
- Yeah. - But it's in October.
So it's a little early.
- Aw. - Yeah.
- Hey. - For me,
the whole experience of it is just like being
in Pittsburgh with all of these people
and getting to be in this,
I think all of us were there for the first time and bonding
and truly hanging out every single day on and off camera,
just constantly and just getting to know each other
and being around each other and just loving each other.
I mean, we were all we had.
- Kate Berlant's birthday - And Kate's birthday.
- And Kate's birthday! - The first
weekend we were there.
Yeah. Kate's birthday.
- Yeah. We love you, Kate.
- Love you, Kate.
- When I think of my favorite memories from set,
it's just being with the other girls.
The team was a real team.
We really fell in love with each other.
We were each other's biggest fans.
- Oh my gosh. - We couldn't get enough
of each other.
- The laughter, like I've never laughed so hard
on a set in my life, both on camera,
like breaking, having to start over.
But like in between camera setups,
just the level of hilarious people
that they gathered for this show.
- Yeah. - It was just like,
jokes on jokes on jokes, tears laughing.
- Truly tears, yeah, and trying to get through it.
I also just had a memory of what, you know,
the baseball of it all was really special and important
and we took it really seriously.
And I just had a memory that we would always say,
"I see you." You know? - Oh, well
the baseball girls - The baseball girls
taught us that. - Taught us that.
- That, you know, if somebody did a good play
or tried to do a good play or, you know,
their heart was in the right place,
to get like a, "I see you." - "I see you."
- From across the field. - Like your effort.
- Was like, you would like float into the heavens
- You're so right.
That was amazing. - Yeah. Yeah.
- Max and Edgar, her father,
they had just played catch,
and they're sitting at the back of his pickup truck,
and they're drinking Coca-Colas and he's smoking a cigar.
No, that's right.
They're smoking cigars.
And I'm in the latter part of the scene.
And I got this really great photo of the two of them.
I was far away from the shot.
But I got a photo of the two of them,
and I was like, "Oh, in Toni's eyes, that's love."
- Mm. - And I just really loved it.
- That's very sweet. - It's very sweet.
- We were all piled together in a trailer before
shooting some scene on the field.
And I was about, we shot the show,
I was like six to eight months pregnant.
And so there was an ongoing competition
of who my baby would kick for.
And the girls all wanted
to be the preferred auntie
and Priscilla hadn't felt her yet
and she started kicking when we were there in the room.
So I put her hand on me
and she felt her for the first time.
And she started getting really emotional.
And then D'Arcy saw that Priscilla was getting
very emotional and D'Arcy started crying.
And then our stunt coordinators started crying.
And then everybody was just crying.
Just a room full of Peaches,
all just overwhelmed with joy.
- Aw. - For my little baby.
That was my favorite moment.
- That's a good one. - Thanks.
- The first time I ever caught a ball,
I unfortunately, I caught it with my lip.
- Oh yeah. - And Abbi threw that ball.
Abbi busted my lip at one
of our very first baseball practices.
And I immediately went home and I called my best friend
and I said, "Abbi Jacobson busted my lip
and today's a really great day in my life."
(both laugh) - That was a good thing?
- Yes, it was a good thing. - Yay. Wow.
Never in my life would busting someone's lip open
be a positive.
And I've been apologizing for it ever since.
I knew a couple people from before, but like,
it was so fun just to get to know everyone.
Also we're playing with real players.
- Yeah. - And it just was like,
it was kind of hilarious.
We would scrimmage after lunch every day.
- We would scrimmage the cast
versus the professional baseball players.
- And like, even if we were thinking we're good,
one of them would just throw the ball anywhere.
- Yeah. - And it was like,
a line drive that we were just shocked by the power
in their throw. - Yeah, and then,
you know how baseball is like, "Three strikes, you're out."
No, it was more like,
you know, 10 strikes. - They were like,
"Why don't you just keep going?"
- "Try again!" - It was like, we were like.
- I was like, "I'm not gonna do it guys."
- Little children playing T-ball.
It was just very fun.
(upbeat music)
- It's really fun.
I think you're gonna fall in love
with all of these characters
the way that we fell in love with them.
This story, especially if you love the movie,
to get to expand this world and open it up
and follow new characters and new storylines
and really get the real story of like what was going on
in the league and with the women that loved baseball
in the 1940s, I think you're gonna love this show.
- That's what I was gonna say.
If you love the movie,
you're gonna just get more and more and more
of the stories of this entire generation of women.
And it's really fun and really funny
and there's a lot of heart.
- Yeah. - You'll love it.
- I think the characters that we're putting on screen,
you have not seen before.
- Mm hmm, yeah. What Abbi said.
I think for the representation
and for the history lesson that they'll also get
through watching our show.
And we hope that people will research the actual
and real women that our characters are based off of
and inspired by.
And yeah, we'll learn a little something
and we hope that they feel seen.
- What else are they gonna do?
I'm looking at you fans, what are you doing?
You're a fan of the movie
and you're not gonna watch this show?
What are you even talking about?
- Yeah. - Get outta here.
- It's kind of whack not to watch the show,
and being so closely tied to the movie,
especially emotionally, without recognizing
or watching this expansion that we've done of the film
and more original characters, Black people are in this.
- Yeah. - Queer people are in this.
- Yeah. - Latin people are in this.
Also you're gonna see a ton of women being funny.
- And making out. - That's, oh,
that's the other thing.
But that's for later, I want you
to discover that later. - Who doesn't wanna
watch that? - But you know, laugh with us.
Have fun with us. Cry with us.
Bleed with us. Be with us.
Come, come. - Well.
I think they're gonna print, that was-
- They probably will.
(upbeat music)