As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England rec-league teams face off for the last time. Tensions flare up and ceremonial laughs are shared as an era of camaraderie and escapism fades into an uncertain future.

Knocking it straight out of the park in his first feature as writer-director, Carson Lund embraces baseball’s nostalgic pleasures to stage an American elegy. With an audio cameo from documentarian Frederick Wiseman, Eephus goes by that playbook, immersed intricately in a beloved national pastime.