In The Home Run something extraordinary happens when two women’s college softball teams take the field in the 9th inning of an otherwise unremarkable game. Behind by a score of 2-0, the home team hasn’t given up—against the odds—but they also haven’t been able to hit much off the formidable fastball pitcher they face.

Until K.C.—who’s never hit a long-haul homerun—comes to bat. She connects with the ball, but that’s not why this true story captured headlines and hearts when it happened in 2008.

It’s because it redefined true sportsmanship.

And reminded us that winning isn’t everything.

And that doing the right thing sometimes means throwing out the rule book.

Because it’s never over until it’s over.

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The Home Run was directed by Ron Shelton.

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