A crisis arises when the guys run out of baseballs .
Scotty supplies his stepdad 's autographed Babe Ruth ball , which is then inevitably hit over the sandlot fence into the forbidding , junk - piled yard where an alleged man - eating dog dwells .
A crisis arises when the guys run out of baseballs and Scotty supplies his stepdad 's autographed Babe Ruth ball , which is then inevitably hit over the sandlot fence into the forbidding , junk - piled yard where an alleged man - eating dog dwells .