[talking about Smalls]
Come on, Benny man. The kid is an L-7 weenie!
Yeah yeah, Oscar Meyer even, foot-long Dodger Dog! A weenie!
What are you talking about, Yeah-Yeah? You run like a duck!
Then how come he don't get to be?
Kenny Yeah, man, he ain't game.
[shaking his head]
Man, base up you blockheads.
[At bat, having missed Kenny's first pitch]
You call that pitching?! [Kenny laughs] This is baseball, not tennis. Give me something to hit!
Kenny All right, Ham. This is my heater! I DARE you to hit it!
Kenny You want the heater? I'll give it to ya. [Pitches the ball to Ham, who hits a home run over the one fence, much to the team's dismay]
Yeah! That's how you do it, Smalls! [Slowly starts to round the bases]
Ham, you idiot! Now we can't play no more!
Kenny Great, you [Throws his glove at Ham] idiot!
[Running past first base, as Timmy also throws his glove at him]
It was a heater!
[Smacks Ham with his glove, alongside Squints and Tommy]
Stupid idiot!
Low and outside! Just like I like it. [The team continues to chase after Ham, smacking him with their hats, and pelting him with their gloves, except Benny, who quietly gathers up his gear, and Smalls, who watches in confusion]
No, you don't understand! That wasn't my ball!
[shocked]
What do you mean, that wasn't your ball?
It was my stepdad's. I stole it from his trophy room. It was a present or something. Somebody gave it to him, but we gotta get it back. He's gonna kill me!
Listen to me, Smalls. This is a matter of life and death. Where did your old man get that ball?
What? I don't know. Some lady gave it to him. Why? [the Sandlot kids are confused] Yeah, she even signed her name on it. Some lady named... Ruth. Baby Ruth.
EE Everyone else
BABE RUTH??!!
[Everyone screams in horror and darts toward the fence]
NO!!!
[Everyone rushes back to Smalls screaming after seeing the ball getting taken by The Beast.]
Hey, guys! What's going on?
Kenny The Beast got it!
You're dead as a doornail, Smalls.
You're dead as a doornail, Smalls.
Smalls, you mean to tell me you went home and swiped a ball that was signed by Babe Ruth, and you brought it out here and actually played with it?!
And actually played with it?!
Yeah. Yeah, but I was gonna bring it back.
But it was signed by Babe Ruth!
Yeah. Yeah. You keep telling me that! Who is she?!
Kenny The Sultan of Swat!
[emphatically]
The Great Bambino!
[in shock and horror]
Oh, my God! You mean that's the same guy?!
Smalls, Babe Ruth was the greatest baseball player that ever lived. I mean, people said he was less than a god, but more than a man. Like, Hercules, or something. That ball you just aced to The Beast is worth...well, more than your whole life, man.
[nauseated]
Ohh... I don't feel so good. [collapses to his knees as he's almost about to throw up]
Uh-oh, fan him. Give him air. Give him air. [ they start fanning Smalls to cool him down]
We gotta get that ball back.