Sugar

Dajhana Hunter
Reflection
November 21, 2016

Sugar is a sports drama.

Miguel Santos aka Sugar was born in the Dominican Republic. He grew up playing baseball and always wanted to play professionally. He was working to get his mother and family out of poverty. He is an average pitcher who only wants to get better. When he realizes he could go to the major leagues in the US, he starts to look at a team for Kansas City.

Soon after he gets to the states he sees that everyone looks down on him because he doesn't speak much English. He moves in with a family who accepts him better as he learns English. The daughter and him began to catch feelings for each other, but she soon shut him down and that hurt him. He got his nickname from him pitching so well. Not everyone on his team could pitch like him and not everyone had the chance of going as far as he did. Jorge is his best friend, he grew up playing with him in DR. Sugar needed Jorge because he felt comfortable playing around him. Also, Jorge gets injured.He used laughing to lighten the mood, usually to make Sugar feel better. The Higgins tried to make Sugar feel comfortable so they tried to joke with him little did they know he doesn't speak much English.

When the coaching learn that Sugar isn't on his A game. They try to give him time to come back. Not feeling like himself Sugar recruits to other ways to make his performance. He tries to take drugs, but the drugs just put him on the bench. If I were to divide the film into three parts the first part would be becoming a player able to go to the major league. The second part would be becoming a part of the major leagues, going to the states. The third part would be finding himself and reaching the goal he set for himself.

I think the ending could've been better. I want to see how life treats him in New York. He was struggling to pay rent in New York, he quit the leagues because he knew he wouldn't get any play time. Robinson Cano is an old Yankee baseball player [from DR; this is why Sugar cites him as his 'jugador favorito']. Roberto Clemente is the same [Clemente was in fact a Pittsburgh Pirate; he is often mentioned in August Wilson's drama Fences. In addition to being a talented baseball player, he was a humanitarian. "Brad," the baseman from Stanford introduces Sugar to RC; RC later becomes Sugar's favorite player] , he was just more known because he made it farther. Vic Power is the coach who saw something in Sugar.