Reese meets with the team’s lead doctor, Kennedy, to check in on her and the department. Kennedy claims most people have been respectful but alludes to Harrison being a problem. Reese vaguely promises she’s taking care of it. Her newly hired athletic trainer, Natalie, is also acclimating well. Kennedy invites Reese to the team potluck next weekend, but Reese declines because she believes no one will want the pressure of having their boss around when they’re trying to have a good time with their friends.

On her way up to her office at the field, Reese runs into her grandfather who has come to say hi to some friends. They also run into Emmett in the elevator who stays even after Arthur exits. Though Emmett plans to go down to the clubhouse, he rides the elevator all the way up with Reese just to spend a few extra minutes with her. He invites her to the team potluck and despite saying no to Kennedy’s invite earlier, Reese agrees to consider it now. As they part ways, Emmett tells Reese she looks good today.

The team potluck is held in Isaiah and Kennedy’s backyard. People from every department of the franchise have been invited. When Reese shows up, the entire party goes quiet from the shock of seeing her casually outside work. She internally panics at the uncomfortable silence, but it quickly passes and everyone resumes their former conversations. 

As food is served, Emmett steps behind Reese in line. When she struggles to make her plate while also holding her drink, Emmett makes their plates for them. They decide to sit with Miller and Kai. Emmett offers Miller a beer that she claims she can’t drink, formally announcing her pregnancy to both Reese and Emmett.

After dinner and a lot of socializing with everyone else, Emmett and Reese reunite and take a walk around the nearby lake. Reese asks Emmett if he’d ever move back out to the suburbs. He states that he wants to be selfish for a bit and live in the city like he always dreamed of. When she asks if he’d ever move away to work for a different city’s MLB team, he admits that he would not. If he couldn’t work with the Warriors, he’d move down to coach at a collegiate level to stay local and near his family. 

Emmett states he doesn’t want more kids, because he wants to focus on himself, and Reese also admits she doesn’t want kids. When Emmett later states that it was nice that Reese was there to share in the excitement of Miller’s pregnancy with him, she hugs him for the first time.

Emmett meets with Reese in her office to discuss that night’s game lineup. They struggle to maintain their professionalism as their conversation evolves into flirting. Reese puts her hand over Emmett’s at one point to trace his tattoos. 

Scott arrives at her office unannounced and they withdraw quickly, hoping he didn’t see their hands. On his way out of her office, Emmett also runs into Michael—the man she went on a date with a few weeks prior. Michael reveals that Reese has personally invited him to watch tonight’s game from the owner’s box, igniting Emmett’s jealousy.

Reese allows Michael and his father, Ed, to watch the game from her owner’s suite but plans to watch the game from her own office instead. She intends to visit Emmett in the dugout prior to the game, but when she sees the reporter, Kelly, openly flirting with him, Reese instead decides to head straight for her office.

The Warriors lose 6–4. Reese decides to work off her annoyance in the gym. Emmett soon enters, sweating profusely from a recent run. He, too, is annoyed with her. After some time fitfully exercising in tense silence, they have a conversation where they admit to double-sided jealously over Michael and Kelly. Emmett explains that he was being cordial with Kelly so as not to get on the reporter’s bad side. Meanwhile, Reese explains that Michael is the son of Ed from the advisory board and that they shared her owner’s suite for the game while she watched from her office. They realize they were jealous for no reason. 

The fight dissolves into a passionate make-out session. They break apart quickly and begrudgingly reassert professional boundaries. However, instead of leaving the gym, Reese closes and locks the door, then returns to sit on his lap and resume kissing.

While Emmett decides they won’t have sex in the gym, they still pleasure each other. Afterward, Emmett asks what Scott wanted when he broke up their meeting earlier that day. Reese reveals that Scott wants to be more involved in the baseball operations, but she rejected that request.

Harrison Kaiser is traded and the team acquires Milo Jones to take his place. The trade has caused heavy backlash from fans and the league—even more so because Reese is a woman. 

Emmett gives Milo a tour and introduces him to the team before leaving to check on Reese. He finds her in the field manager’s seat within the dugout, reading all the headlines and comments on her phone. She is exhausted and her confidence is diminished, but Emmett promises her she made the right decision and he will make sure Milo proves that during their next series. 

When asked, Reese tells Emmett about how the field manager’s seat in the dugout became her hiding spot as a kid. It’s the one place she can hide from scrutiny and not be found by anyone—except for him, who has found her there several times now. Emmett reminds her that the seat is his but he doesn’t mind sharing it, subtly also implying that he will share the burdens of the pressure on her as well.

There is a palpable nervous energy when Reese boards the team plane for their next away series. Emmett offers her a seat next to him, offers her food, and forces her to sleep to relieve the pressure she’s feeling. Fortunately, while the media has been attacking Reese, Emmett and the team have been supportive of her decision in every interview and conference since the news broke. Though it is tempting to play Milo right away to ease the backlash on Reese, it isn’t fair to him, so she and Emmett decide to let Milo sit out the first few games.

Unfortunately, the talk doesn’t ease during the first few games without Milo. By the time he finally plays, immense pressure is on him to perform well. He is nervous and unconfident; his first game is terrible, with missed catches in the outfield and several strike-outs at the plate. The increased backlash after makes Reese doubt for the first time that she’s made the right decision.