After another bad game, Buttermaker attempts a pitching tryout but it goes badly. Amanda Wurlitzer does show up. She feels abandoned after Buttermaker broke up with her mother. She agrees to pitch one game for the Bears.
Tanner's attack kite is causing havoc. Amanda takes him down forcing him to Give. The other girls start bullying the boys. It's war. A battle of the sexes.
Kelly is out of town. The team loses badly. The top team has a surprising lost and the Bears still has a chance to get to the big championship game in a big league ballpark.
Food is missing from the school's pantry over the weekend when only The Bears were present. Rappant tells Buttermaker to investigate and Engelberg becomes the prime suspect.
Ogilvie accidentally shrinks the uniforms. Buttermaker suggests the kids get jobs to pay for new uniforms. Instead, they end up with a highly successful and not so truthful way to raise the cash.
Buttermaker has money trouble and car trouble. He can't buy a present for Amanda's birthday. Turner fires him as the pool cleaner and then hires him selling bad houses. The boys decide to clean pools to give Amanda a great birthday party.