The film Eephus celebrates the beautiful, blissful anticipation of baseball.

In baseball, an “eephus” is a trick pitch, a high-arcing throw that appears to cross the plate somewhere below 55 mph. It’s the opposite of a fastball, and while it can sometimes lose a game — Bill ...

DD:. Even though college basketball’s March Madness is underway, WBGO’s Film Critic is getting excited that Major League ...

Named after a long, high pitch, the hangout comedy “Eephus” finds humor and pathos in a baseball diamond’s final inning.

That’s it for plot in this independent film, but Eephus emerges an instant baseball classic “because it understands what the ...

Carson Lund's baseball comedy distills the mundane pleasures and casual heartbreak of sport ...

Set in New England in the 1990s, Eephus is about two recreational baseball teams, Adler’s Paint and the Riverdogs, playing their last game ever because their field is set to be demolished to make way ...

Lund fills in the gaps between innings with quotes from baseball legends including Rickey Henderson, Babe Ruth and Yogi Berra. The ghosts of the game loom large over "Eephus," which is named for a ...

Two recreational New England teams, the Adler’s Paint team and the Riverdogs, spend a day playing a game on a field that’ll ...

Richly detailed and mordantly deadpan, “Eephus” adopts their pace of play, soaking up all the sesame-seed flavor that goes along with it. The title comes from an unnaturally slow pitch not ...

Film captures a beer-league baseball game played by fading semi-athletes at a New England ball field destined to be torn down ...