1. What is Billy Chapel’s level of esteem needs at this point in the game?
2. Do you expect Gus Sinski’s talk to have any effect on Chapel? If it will, what will be the effect?
3. What rewards potentially exist for Billy Chapel? Remember, this is the last baseball game of his career.

Billy Chapel (Kevin Costner), a 20-year veteran pitcher with the Detroit Tigers, learns just before the season’s last game that the team’s new owners want to trade him. He also learns that his partner Jane Aubrey (Kelly Preston) intends to leave him. Faced with these daunting blows, Chapel wants to pitch a perfect final game. Director Sam Raimi’s love of baseball shines through in some striking visual effects.
This scene is a slightly edited version of the “Just Throw” sequence, which begins the film’s exciting closing scenes in which Chapel pitches his last game. In this scene, the Tigers’ catcher Gus Sinski (John C. Reilly) comes out to the pitching mound to talk to Billy.