Emmett returns to his hotel room after a morning run to change clothes. Reese visits his room and invites him to come somewhere with her but finds it difficult to keep her eyes off his shirtless body. Reese brings Emmett to a triple-A game in Las Vegas. Reese tells Emmett about her childhood; she would beg her parents to bring her to the field to watch games with her grandfather. She practically lived there during the summer and loved the players so much she’d invite them to her birthday parties. 

When she says they probably felt obligated to go since her grandfather was their boss, Emmett disagrees. He believes baseball is “one big family” and that they went to her parties because they viewed her as one of them (95). Reese assures Emmett that she agrees, and any business decision she has to make is to preserve the team. She admits that her grandfather’s budgets were a mess and the franchise is in trouble. She feels responsible because while he wanted to retire years ago, she wasn’t able to take over because she was still married to Jeremy and that would have been too risky.

Emmett is surprised when Reese begins cheering for the triple-A team like she personally knows them.