A n eephus pitch is one of baseball’s many pieces of niche ephemera. It’s a weird trick throw that’s barely ever glimpsed in the professional game—an arcing lob of the bal

In Carson Lund’s “Eephus,” two teams – the Riverdogs and Adler’s Paint – gather on a neighborhood field for a baseball game. The leaves are already starting to turn — “It’s getting late early,” as Yogi Berra said — and this is to be the final game for their adult rec league.

Carson Lund’s lyrical film goes inside the last game played on a ballfield that’s about to be bulldozed in a small New England town.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll want to blow out your elbow pitching nine innings of rec league ball. GQ caught up with the minds behind the indie film that perfectly captures both the easy pleasure of a long baseball game and the bittersweet passage of time.