NYPD, FDNY baseball teams act out ‘Sandlot’ scene to promote matchup

By Nicole Brownnicole.brown@amny.com  @ncb417Updated August 15, 2018 10:46 AM

Acting out a scene from “The Sandlot,” players on the NYPD and FDNY baseball teams traded cheeky insults in a video promoting the annual Heroes Baseball Classic.

The teams reenacted the scene from the 1993 movie in which the sandlot kids are confronted by a rival group. The NYPD team acted as the sandlot kids, while the FDNY team acted as the rivals, riding onto the field on bicycles.

“You shouldn’t be allowed to touch a baseball,” the leader of the rival group yells at the Ham Porter character in the scene. “We’ll take you on, right here! Right now!” Porter yells back.