A month after the September 11 attacks, the New York Yankees face the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2001 World Series, and this film follows how that seven-game series became something more than baseball for a city still digging out of the wreckage. Interviews with players, fans, and first responders sit alongside footage from the stadium, including the game where President Bush threw the ceremonial first pitch at Yankee Stadium and the crowd's reaction to it. The film tracks the Yankees' pinstripes becoming a rallying image for New York, and the games themselves, with their late comebacks and extra-inning finishes, as a shared distraction for a country still absorbing what had happened weeks earlier. Firefighters and police who worked at Ground Zero describe watching or attending the games between shifts, and fans recall the atmosphere in the stands as equal parts grief and defiance. The series did not erase what the city had lost, but the film documents how nine innings at a time gave people somewhere else to put their attention.