WATCH: Tom Hanks throws out ceremonial 1st pitch to Larry Doby Jr. at Cleveland Guardians’ home opener

CLEVELAND — You could not have scripted it any higher, and Tom Hanks definitely is aware of a very good script when he sees one.

What may make the second much more good? Hanks was joined on the mound by an outdated pal: Wilson, his trusty volleyball from the movie “Solid Away.” Wilson even had a bit enjoyable of his personal, zipping across the infield earlier than “Chuck Nolan” lastly fired the baseball to Doby behind house plate.

Earlier than changing into a legendary Hollywood actor, Hanks bought considered one of his first huge breaks as a member of Cleveland’s Nice Lakes Theater Competition within the late Seventies, and as an enormous baseball fan discovered himself going to a number of Indians recreation at outdated Municipal Stadium. He is remained a fan of the staff ever since, and even name-dropped a number of gamers from that period in an interview with Cubs supporter Stephen Colbert through the 2016 World Sequence.

However in fact, us baseball die-hards will all the time bear in mind Hanks for his position as drunken however sensible supervisor Jimmy Dugan in “A League of Their Personal,” the place he coined the immortal phrase, “There is no crying in baseball!”