"Sugar"- Juwan Sims

In the sport film Sugar directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. It follow the story of Miguel Santos who is mainly called by his nickname Sugar (Algenis Perez Soto). Sugar is a Dominican pitcher from San Pedro de Macorís, Trying his hardest to make it to the big leagues so he could pull himself and his family out of the slums. He does this by play professionally at a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic. After performing a well done knuckle curve he is finally sent to America to be a part of one of their minor leagues.

He joins the Kansa City Knights and is assigned to their single A team, the Swings. When he arrive in Iowa he meets the family that is housing him the Higgins. He later sees his friend that has also came from the Dominican Republic Jorge (Rayniel Rufino) who becomes his mentor by helping him stay focus and learns the ropes of the team. Throughout those times Sugar domination his area and was doing extremely well.

That came to an end when he injured himself during practice and is forced to sit back and watch. At the same time his friend and mentor Jorge was doing not so good and was going to be sent back. Until he decide to leave the team and go live with a family member in New York City. From there after his surgery he returns to the team but after not being able to play and losing his only friend on the team he started to play horrible and even started a big fight between his team and another one.

Now he started to fear the he would be sent to the Dominican Republic and lose all of chances of giving his family a better life. So he decide to leave the team and head where his one friend is in New York City. When he arrives he goes to the last place he heard that Jorge works which was a diner and after asking a waitress he founds out he not there and have no way of contacting him

He decided to go the rest of his day looking for a job, at first he tried a woodshop place, then some newspaper ads but they needed a college graduate. So after a week of trying he started to work at the diner where he first came to. After a while where his life started to settled down and found a nice place to live at and then Jorge found him and introduce him to these wash up baseball players who now play baseball for fun.