Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: unpopular children never played because of lack of athletic ability in baseball, Fact2: Gus Matthews being good at young age, Fact3: nerdy boy named Nelson and friends are kicked off nearby baseball diamond by team of bullies, Fact4: Gus and Clark return with Richie get back feel for game, Fact5: Brad challenges them to baseball game with team
Output (English): Gus Matthews, Richie Goodman, and Clark Reedy are three adult nerds; Clark and Richie were the unpopular children who were constantly bullied and never played because of their lack of athletic ability in baseball despite Gus Matthews being quite good at a young age. When a nerdy boy named Nelson and his friends are kicked off a nearby baseball diamond by a team of bullies, Gus and Clark chase the bullies away. When Gus and Clark return with Richie to play again and get back their feel for the game, the bullies return and demand that they leave. Gus challenges the bullies to play them for the field, and the three friends, despite Clark and Richies poor abilities, win the game. Days later, one of Clark and Richies bullies, Brad, challenges them to another baseball game with his team, but the three friends win again. Later, Nelsons billionaire father, Mel, tells the trio that he is impressed with their wins, and explains his plan to hold a roundrobin with all the mean spirited little league teams in the state, plus their team. The winners will be given access to a new multimilliondollar baseball park that he is building. Wanting to capture the spirit and fun they never had when they were kids, the three decide to form the Benchwarmers and join the tournament. They prepare to compete with all the other teams, despite the fact that they are three adults squaring off against nine kids per team. The Benchwarmers begin winning every single game, with Clark and Richies abilities gradually improving, and the team becomes popular among many nerds and the general public, but much to the frustration of the losing meanspirited teams, who form a group together. At the semifinal game, the competing teams coach Wayne bribes the umpire by entering a 30yearold Dominican man named Carlos into the league claiming him to be 12 years old despite the fake birth certificate being written in green crayon. Carlos proves to be a professional, purposely stepping on Gus hand at one point to injure it too much for him to pitch. But the Benchwarmers eventually manage to defeat Carlos by making him too drunk to actually pitch properly and they manage to win when Richies agoraphobic and heliophoic brother Howie is hit by the pitch but forces the winning run. However, the group of bullies find evidence that Gus was a bully himself as a child; known for using name calling over physical force and had bullied one child so intensely that the boy, named Marcus, had to be sent to a mental institution. Taking advantage, the bullies expose Gus secret to the public, resulting in Gus getting kicked out of the team. However, on his wife Lizs advice, Gus sincerely apologizes to Marcus, who before the final game, makes an incredible speech that he forgave him. Gus rejoins the team, announcing that Marcus is the Benchwarmers new thirdbase coach. In the final game, Gus, Clark and Richie dont play; rather, they let a team of Nelson and other children play, to give them a chance to compete. The final is played against a team with a heartless coach, Jerry, who practically torments his players, is the leader of the group of bullies, and was Richie and Clarks main bully when they were children. In the final inning, the Benchwarmers are losing, but Jerrys team sees that the Benchwarmers are having fun playing the game anyway despite losing. Seeing how heartless and uncaring Jerry is and realizing the true spirit of the game, they decide to let Nelson hit the ball, and let him score a run, saying that Jerry is the loser. The Benchwarmers storm the field, celebrating the fact that they were not shut out, and they give an enraged Jerry a taste of his own medicine, giving him a wedgie. Later, the Benchwarmers celebrate at Pizza Hut where Richie and Clark manage to get girlfriends, and Gus celebrates as he will become a father.