Playing Hardball

Die "Drei von der Riptide" werden von Hal Potter, dem Manager eines Baseball-Clubs, alarmiert, weil Potter vermutet, dass in seinem Team drogensüchtige Spieler sind. Doch damit nicht genug: Als die Detektive mit ihren Recherchen beginnen, wird auf einige Team-Mitglieder ein Mordanschlag verübt. Hinter einem der Spieler verbirgt sich der reiche Unternehmer Jason Young, der hier unter Pseudonym seinem liebsten Hobby, dem Baseball, nachgeht. Ihm galt eigentlich der Anschlag ...

The detectives are hired by sports-caster Hal Potter, the owner of a minor league baseball team, to go undercover as part of the team and prove or disprove his concerns that some on his team are drug users. Nick is excited about the case, but Cody, who is less of a baseball fan is rather less enthusiastic, but never-the-less the pair the join the team as new players, while Murray joins Hal as a sports commentator. They soon find that something is going on when a sniper takes a pot-shot at one of their fellow players, and they become suspicious of one of their team-mates, a practical joker who seems to have rather a lot of money for someone playing on a minor league team. But another member of the team, a drug addict, is being set-up by a mysterious, drug-supplying woman to take the fall in a planned murder...

Une équipe de baseball professionnelle a un problème de drogue, alors Nick et Cody se font passer pour des joueurs, Murray prétend être un commentateur.