The Ninth(2019)

The Ninth is a comedy series following a ragtag baseball team in crisis. The Toronto Boxsprings are perennial losers in a minor inter-county league, owned by a discount mattress retailer with little interest in actual baseball. Their decrepit home base—a flooded basement locker room beneath a dive bar—perfectly captures the team's hapless existence. Yet somehow, players keep showing up, clinging to dreams of glory despite impossible odds. The show mines humor from the collision between athletic ambition and complete organizational incompetence, exploring what drives people to pursue sport when everything around them screams failure. It's a scrappy underdog story that finds heart in the margins.