When career minor league baseball player Sam Murdock is released from his team, and his promise to his father to become a major league baseball player goes unfulfilled, it looks like his career has hit the wall. But when a Saint named Chris appears and offers him a chance to play baseball with the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers, which was his father's favorite team, he jumps at the chance to go back in time. While he is there, he falls in love with a Brooklyn girl who works for the Dodgers. As the summer heats up, so does their relationship and the pair fall in love. When the season ends, Sam is torn between going home, or staying in his new home, with the girl he's fallen in love with. However, when the time comes to make a decision, he finds out all is not what is appears. Will he strike out and lose the woman he's fallen in love with? Or will they have a walk off romance?