During the press conference after a game, Emmett is asked if their five-game win streak is because of Milo Jones joining the lineup. While Emmett says he’s a great addition, he insists their success is a team effort. He also sets the record straight, giving Reese the credit she deserves for scouting Milo since many reporters have tried giving that credit to Arthur instead.

Jeremy finds Reese at the conference. He knows her well enough to deduce that something is happening between her and Emmett. Though she panics at the idea of him telling reporters, she is also angry at him for making her distrustful of men. Jeremy let her believe she was only lovable because of what she could offer. 

Reese retreats to her office to decompress. Emmett finds her after the conference and expresses anger at seeing Jeremy approach her like that. They have sex in her office to release their anger.

Emmett and Reese begin to spend more nights together during home series. While away, they only risk staying with each other if their hotel rooms have a connecting door. During an away series in Colorado—the same place Emmett played in the MLB for—Emmett takes Reese to see the home he raised Miller in. He gives her a tour of the cabin-style home and tells her stories about his past there. The space is special and vulnerable to him like Reese’s condo is to her.

They relax beside the lake near the house afterward. They admit that they’re each other’s best friend and wish to spend a lot of years together. Reese asks Emmett if he has it in him to move on from Claire, referencing a conversation they had long ago. He explains that he had meant he wasn’t able to move on from her physically because he was an exhausted single dad and focused on raising Miller. He is, however, ready emotionally to pursue something with Reese. 

Emmett invites Reese to be his date to Miller’s wedding. She hesitates, but accepts once he promises her the gathering will be intimate and will only include trusted friends and family.

After returning from the Colorado series, Reese visits her grandparents’ house. She tells Arthur about her growing feelings for Emmett and her desire to pursue a relationship with him. Arthur is worried about the backlash Reese will receive from the media and fans. He helps advise her on how to best handle the business side of things.

Emmett officiates Kai and Miller’s wedding ceremony. At the reception afterward, Reese and Emmett show their first open affection toward each other around their friends and family. When Miller speaks to Emmett about their relationship, he almost says he loves Reese. He decides he needs to tell her soon. 

Emmett and Reese share a few slow dances, during which he asks her about her recent stress at work since the Colorado trip. She simply tells him not to worry about work and that it can wait until tomorrow. When Reese jokes that Emmett makes a good officiate, they subtly imply that they can see themselves someday marrying each other.

When Reese returns to work the following morning, Scott is waiting in her office with photos of her intimate interactions with Emmett at Miller’s wedding reception. He bribed a caterer who hadn’t signed an NDA to take the photos of Emmett and Reese at the wedding so Scott can use them to blackmail Reese into making him the President of Baseball Operations. He has called an advisory meeting for tomorrow where he will call for a vote to make it look like an in-house decision for her to step down and let him take over. If she doesn’t concede the position to him, he will leak the photos to the media and ruin her reputation and her franchise.

Emmett arrives at the stadium to finally tell Reese he loves her. When he finds her in the field manager’s seat at the dugout, she is distant and upset. She hands him the photos and reveals that Scott is blackmailing her. Emmett is willing to quit his job so she doesn’t lose her position, but Reese assures him that she will handle it. 

Later that day, Emmett attempts to visit her office to check in on how she’s handling things, but her door is locked for the first time.

Emmett sleeps terribly being separated from Reese. After a long night of thinking, he makes the decision to quit his job before Reese can make the decision to give up hers. 

The following morning, he calls Isaiah and Kai into his office to inform them of the blackmail and his decision to quit. They aren’t happy but they understand that it’s necessary for Emmett to protect Reese. During that day’s pregame ritual, Emmett’s speech is sappy. He has not told the other players that he intends to quit, but heavily implies that this will be his last game by informing them of how much of a pleasure it’s been to coach them.

After winning the game, Emmett rushes to the advisory board meeting. He barges in just as Scott is calling a vote about the President of Baseball Operations position, intending to announce he’s quitting. His presence causes Scott and the others on the advisory board to panic. Reese takes control of the meeting to inform the board that Scott has blackmailed her into giving her position to him in exchange for him not leaking her relationship with Emmett to the press. 

The other men are shocked at this reveal, but she goes on to scold everyone but Ed for disrespecting and undermining her all season. She fires all four of the offenders, offering all but Scott a severance package since he broke his contract by blackmailing her. Firing them frees up room in her budget to give Ed a promotion (and pay raise) as Vice President of Baseball Operations, where he will handle the coaching staff for their major and minor leagues and handle all coaching hires, promotions, and salary negotiations. Meanwhile, as President, Reese will maintain control over the players. The separation of their job duties places Ed as Emmett’s supervisor instead of Reese, also resolving the prior concerns over the moral and legal ramifications of their relationship.

After the meeting, Reese and Emmett meet in the field manager’s seat of the dugout. She tells him that she met with her grandfather after Colorado and in the 10 days since, has been busy working with the legal and Human Resources departments to find a solution that would allow them to continue their relationship and separate it from the business.

Reese also shows him an interview she has done with a female journalist. The article details what it’s like being the first female owner in the league, tells her backstory, and also announces her relationship with Emmett, allowing her to take control of the narrative before it’s spun into something it’s not. The article will be released tomorrow morning. Reese and Emmett share “I love yous.”

A few months later, Emmett officially moves into Reese’s condo. The media wasn’t kind when they first announced their relationship, but with the positivity and support of the team, the media eventually became uninterested in the topic. 

The team has also recently concluded their season after a strong playoff run which ended in game six of the Division Series. Emmett vows that next year, they’ll win a championship with their team. While she’s taking a bath, he brings her wine and they have sex in the tub. Afterward, they clean up and prepare to host the rest of their family—Kai, Miller, Max, Kennedy, and Isaiah.

One year later, Milo provides the winning hit in the bottom of the ninth inning. Emmett and Reese celebrate the team winning the World Series alongside their family, including Miller’s newborn girl, Emmy, whom she named after Emmett. 

Amidst the excitement on the field, Reese demands that Emmett marry her. Already prepared to ask her, Emmett pulls a ring from his back pocket and proposes to her, which she accepts.