--- title: Watch Yankees Recreate Babe Ruth Scene From 'Sandlot' Movie description: Starring Brett Gardner as Smalls. canonical: https://time.com/3757341/yankees-sandlot/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-24T23:27:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T05:24:47.369Z article:section: Sports og:title: Watch the Yankees Recreate the Babe Ruth Scene From 'The Sandlot' og:description: Starring Brett Gardner as Smalls. og:url: https://time.com/3757341/yankees-sandlot/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Yankees Recreate the Babe Ruth Scene From 'The Sandlot' twitter:description: Starring Brett Gardner as Smalls. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the Yankees Recreate the Babe Ruth Scene From _The Sandlot_  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Mar 24, 2015 11:27 PM CUT  by [Jack Linshi](/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Mar 24, 2015 11:27 PM CUT \[mlbvideo id=”53162883″ width=”800″ height=”448″ /\] Opening Day is drawing near, but some of the New York Yankees decided to [test](http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/6479266/v53162883/yankees-recreate-scene-from-the-sandlot "undefined") out their acting skills. In a commercial unveiled Tuesday, a few players recreate the famous [scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyFaLT-L2uk "undefined") from _The Sandlot_ (1993) in which Smalls, played by Brett Gardner, brings a ball signed by legendary slugger Babe Ruth to the field. Meanwhile, Dellin Betances, Jacoby Ellsbury, C.C. Sabathia and Didi Gregorius play the furious Sandlot kids. Watch the [full scene](http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/6479266/v53162883/yankees-recreate-scene-from-the-sandlot "undefined") at MLB.com. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3757341/yankees-sandlot/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3757341/yankees-sandlot/"},"headline":"Watch the Yankees Recreate the Babe Ruth Scene From The Sandlot","datePublished":"2015-03-24T23:27:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:24:47.369Z","description":"Starring Brett Gardner as Smalls","url":"https://time.com/3757341/yankees-sandlot/","keywords":["Baseball","movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/baseball/","name":"Baseball"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3757341/yankees-sandlot/","name":"Watch the Yankees Recreate the Babe Ruth Scene From The Sandlot"}}]}] ```