In this original fantasy, the Los Angeles Dodgers' new owner, Willie Castle, brings to the club from Mars a strange but gifted pitcher, Ceremo Castro, who has a 32-foot arm. The team's success at first creates legal complications, and the final game must be played against the Milwaukee Braves before the two sides can settle their differences.

Police officers conduct a stakeout to catch an unidentified suspect connected to a deadly supermarket shooting, but struggle to find concrete evidence linking him to the robbery that left a man dead and a cashier as witness.