Game: (1st) The Statesmen visit the Atlanta Peaches. Kendricks is walked. The assistant coaches all ignore Huebner after his attempted mutiny. (2nd) Conan Jones gets into a bases loaded situation. He concentrates and gets the batter to ground into a triple play. (4th) Kendricks gets intentionally walked. Glover explains to Santana that Atlanta keeps walking Kendricks because they need to win to get home field advantage in the first round of the playoffs. (7th) Kendricks is intentionally walked again. Santana makes an error, allowing the bases to be loaded with one out. Jones concentrates and gets the batter to hit a grounder to Santana again and this time he turns the double play to end the inning. (9th) Kendricks is walked again, tying a record for most walks in a 9-inning game. Kendricks starts getting angry and Gray notices. Jones is pulled because of a pitch count, even though he's still pitching well. (12th) Kendricks is walked again, tying a record for most walks in an extra inning game. Bennett drives in the go-ahead run. Wheeler is pitching and gives up a hit that drives in two runs for Atlanta to win.

A commercial for playoff baseball shows the first round match-ups for all four USBL conferences.

Inesta Morgan and Major Sumrell host Sports Central. Inesta interrupts Major's intro and proposes to him. He enthusiastically agrees. Sharon Alligood explains the complicated USBL Playoff format. The crawl reveals that Julie Croteau (AZ) and Adam Campbell (NY) have been found dead and a record heat wave leads to deaths across the south. This world is different: Marvel has a film series called Captain Japan. Jello Biafra wins the Masked Singer. Joe Biden is a star quarterback.

On NBS News, Jeffey Brack introdues Leila Rassi, the escaped member of the Order of the Crimson Ram.

Owens watches the Statesmen game and Ms. Richardson comes in to tell her that Shirley Muldoon was fired from the Dispatch. She also mentions that Lewis fired Hernandenz.

In Dallas, Ajax Cloud meets a connecting flight home. He's going back to London and quitting American baseball.

Alex Levin meets with Mindy and Fernando of the America PAC. She is running for Arlington County sheriff and wants their endorsement. She reveals some right-wing beliefs. While Levin explains herself, her officers go around the city harassing and abusing people of color and poor people. Levin gets the endorsement of the PAC. She tells them she's going to wait until right before the election to reveal to the public that they have captured and killed the "suspects."

Eversmith and Cody meet at the Pinch and Eversmith asks Cody to bug Levin's office.

Lekebra Benjamin visits Manda Starr and Carmesi Molto in New York. She makes a deal with Starr to share secret shareholder information in exchange for cash and a promise to let Benjamin run the Statesmen if Starr takes control of the team. Starr says yes because she doesn't have a long-term interest in the team.

Arriving at PDDC, Cody is harassed by Tucker and O'Reilly. They tell her she should quit. Tucker throws an implied threat, which crosses a line for O'Reilly. Later, Cody goes to the tech locker to get a wiretap and O'Reilly is working. She gets the wiretap and gives him a file folder with evidence of the corruption in the department and he devours it as she leaves.

Shirley visits Chad and he tells her that he fixed her website, which was hit with a DDoS attack. He's set it up in a much more secure way and the Kendricks abuse post is live. Shirley teaches Chad that women have value outside their relationships with men.

In the locker room before the game, Jones goes into the bathroom to inject himself with Winstrol.

Game: The Statesmen host the New Orleans Creoles. During a rain delay, Bishop talks to Kendricks, who gets increasingly angry that the backups are playing and losing. Bishop tries to calm him that the playoffs will be different, but Kendricks is too angry to listen. Glover tells Purvis and Malay to get warmed up, they'll be pitching today. (3rd) The game is tied 1-1. Purvis gets a strikeout to get out of the inning. Bishop congratulates back-up catcher Haywood Doman and sees Betty Billups in the stands with a strange man. (9th) Malay now pitches and has two outs. He gets the third out. Pasco, Gay and Pompey all get on base with no outs and Steve Reeves comes up to bat. Reeves hits a deep fly ball and drives in the winning run. Bishop goes to congratulate the team and sees Betty and the strange man making out in the stands. He walks away in anger.

Gray meets with Huebner, telling him that even though he can't fire Huebner, he's been relieved of all his duties and Glover will be handling hitting coach duties. Huebner is angry, but there's nothing he can do.

Ashley Hernandez has dinner with Shirley Muldoon. Ashley is doing some work for Carmesi Molto, but has no idea about Starr or the cult. Shirley asks about the article and Ashley says she felt just as bad as she did when she watched the video of Kendricks hitting Tina Warren. Shirley apologizes for the slow release of the tape, she was hit by a DDoS attack. Shirley reveals that she was fired from the Dispatch. Ashley says she's thinking of hiring a lawyer to sue the team, but Shirley says she has a better idea.

Owens accuses Lewis of colluding with Starr. Lewis denies any knowledge and intimates that she had a stronger relationship with Augustus that Owens thought.

Levin sits ready to interview Leila Rassi and Cody arrives. Levin tells her to leave, but Cody says she was invited by Mr. Schur. Ariel Schur arrives with Lavi Weiner, they are from the National Cult Readiness Task Force and they have jurisdiction over this case by the direction of the president. Schur interviews Rassi and Weiner takes notes. Rassi describes the cult: They had to memorize history of the Order and you are tested on it, with punishment for failing. Mudgett Holmes founded the Order with John Bender, Samuel Green, William Kelly, Stephen Richards and Edward Ruloff. Their cardinal virtues are family, hedonism, anarchy, masculinity, freedom, wealth and purity. In the group's estimation, white men are superior. Any women are acceptable, but only in servile roles. Nonwhite men were inferior and to be avoided. The cult's founders thought of baseball as the sacred game and they radicalized when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. The Order is dedicated to anarchy and they're behind some notable terrorism since. No one knows Starr is the leader of the Order, since it's supposed to be a position that only men are supposed to have. Leila is sure it's a woman, though..

Lawyer Benjamin Stump holds a press conference with the families of Till and Myers. He also reveals he is working with a third family. They are seeking justice for the families and the truth to come out. Schur and Weiner watch and ramp up their investigation.

Shirley, Chad, Eversmith, Cody and Ashley meet in the Pinch basement to go over the evidence. Cam Kendricks couldn't have done at least one of the murders, and that casts doubt on whether he could've murdered anyone. But he definitely engaged in domestic violence. They note that Tina Warren is missing and Maya Marin was murdered, a fact Cody learned from Leila. Leila recognized Kendricks, but not from baseball. Someone other than Kendricks has to be involved, but rather than speculate, they decide to do some investigation into the details.

In Akron, Dwayne McDaris is fired over the phone and he may also be getting sued.

Shirley visits Owens again, she wants to get Owens' take on Kendricks' assault. Owens categorically condemns assault but says Kendricks is innocent until proven guilty. Owens offers Shirley money to investigate Lewis for her.

Tucker and O'Reilly enter a house without knocking and Tucker guns down an unarmed Black man. Cody calls Eversmith and tells her about Tucker's shooting. Snell overhears her and threatens her.

At the annual Statesmen team awards night, a drunken Gray awards Eddie Parker pitcher of the year, Kendricks MVP and Jones comeback player of the year. Later Kendricks and Bishop drunkenly engage in hijinks in the stadium parking lot and Kendricks falls in a way that should have hurt him, but he says that he CAN'T get hurt.

In Akron, McDaris visits Spike Johnson's Gym and gets Kendricks' old possessions. Among them are an ID that confirms that Kendricks is Dan Cooper and a birth certificate shows that he was born in 1969, making him MUCH older than his supposed age of 30.

Michael Weisman hosts the Sunday Sports Chat Show with guests David Tessell, Sharon Alligood, Jonnie Travis and Edith Merman. Topics include: The Kendricks Rule, implemented for the playoffs, limits intentional walks to the same player to one per game. Are the Statesmen limping into the playoffs? Tessell accuses the Statesmen of cheating, and not just Kendricks. The panel members are skeptical, but they agree that things seem strange.

Gray bumps into Owens at the stadium and she returns his earlier Major League-related insult.

The Task Force tells the police officers that they'll all be interviewed individually, starting immediately. Schur wants Cody more involved because she was the one who Leila turned herself into. He's heard good things about her.

Lewis gets a message to meet with Starr. Starr tells her that Owens is digging into her, but Lewis isn't worried. Starr gives Lewis evidence that Benjamin was the one who leaked the shareholder information. Lewis takes the evidence to Owens and Owens is shocked and says she'll have to consider what to do Benjamin.

Bishop goes to Betty's apartment and they talk about his negative reactions to her being with other men. He says he can't handle it and that he has some things to figure out. She says he should call her when he does figure things out.

Bishop and Huebner come into the locker room soaking wet from the latest hurricane. Bishop left his necklace outside and ventures back into the rain while Huebner hits the showers. Bishop ventures into the rain and finds the necklace. As he's returning to the locker room, he runs into Kendricks. Kendricks says he left his watch by Union Station and he has to leave to go get it, even though it's raining. He explains that the watch is valuable (using the watch story from Pulp Fiction). Bishop is suspicious, but doesn't say or do anything.

Officer Snell makes her way through the hurricane to get donuts for work. As she's leaving, a homeless man accosts her and leads her to a new murder scene, with two new dead people who have been killed quickly and displayed underneath a bridge. She calls for backup, then she sends pictures of the new crime scene to Cody. Snell eats a donut and waits.