They lost the last game they played and got a hero’s welcome anyway. That’s the whole speech about what a season is, in one water arch.

September is promotion season at every level of this game. Somewhere on your fall roster is a kid waiting on his call-up. Fall ball is where you find out.

Twenty-three years later and the Moneyball scene is still the sharpest scouting meeting ever filmed. Every dugout has a guy who throws funny. Play him.

The rulebook is undefeated. Watch this one before it costs you a run at a fall tournament — because the other dugout might have watched it already.

Every fall game is free film on next spring’s opponents — and on your own kids. Evaluation season is the quiet edge. Use it.

Remember last issue’s four-strikeout inning under the Williamsport lights? Same game, other half of the box score: Kinley R. came out of the bullpen and threw 4⅔ shutout innings with six strikeouts. One Monday night, two lines you’ll never see again.

One lineup’s two-hole hitter, full season charted: when his at-bat starts 1-0, he reaches base 15 times out of 17. Against some hitters, strike one isn’t a suggestion — it’s the whole at-bat. Know whose before Friday.