Rally Caps: The BRWC Review.

A rally cap is a baseball cap worn inside-out to will a team to a come-from-behind win. It’s a baseball superstition that has been going on for fans and players for generations. While there is no scientific basis for a rally cap to work, if there are enough people who wear them, then maybe the losing team will get some sort of inspiration and dig really deep inside to find something to get a win. Sometimes rally caps do work, otherwise fans and players wouldn’t wear their baseball caps like inside-out to begin with. In the movie Rally Caps, a boy finds something within himself to triumph against his opponent… his anxiety.

Written and directed by Lee Cipolla (The Shift, Know Thy Enemy), based on the novel of the same name by Stephen J. Cutler & Jodi Michelle Cutler, Rally Caps follows Jordy, played by Carson Minniear (Palmer, Leo), a young baseball player who dreams to make a Little League team, but gets brutally injured during his very first tryout. After months of recovery, he becomes disillusioned with baseball.

However, when his mother, played by Amy Smart (Just Friends, Crank), and grandfather, played by Judd Hirsch (The Fabelmans, Independence Day), send him to a baseball summer camp, he learns to fall back in love with the game and re-connect to his older brother Rob, played by Ben Morang, in his feature film debut, who left the family after their father’s untimely death and coaches the ragtag team of misfit baseball players. 

Although Rally Caps is predictable and cliché (what sports movie isn’t?), there’s a lot of joy and fun to be had while watching this movie. From the loveable group of misfits, led by deaf catch Lucas, played by Colten Pride, to the oddballs who run the summer camp, led by camp director, played by James Lowe (Holy Ghost People, The Thompsons), and camp owner, played by Cathy Ladman (Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, White Oleander), the movie features those elements in summer camp movies that’s enduring.

But, the big takeaway from the film is Jordy’s dealing with his anxiety in a positive way. He almost seems obsessive compulsive, no doubt stemming from his father’s death. He searches for control in a world without control and dealing with those imperfect moments through baseball was refreshing to watch.

Throughout the film, he learns to cope and overcome his fears, either by swimming in a lake with “monsters,” or pitching a game of baseball again without getting violently hit in the face. Jordy seems to handle his shortcomings with persistence and patience, which are the keys to obtaining any goal. In other words, even though he seems down-and-out, he can make his way to victory with the help of his friends and family via rally caps.

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