This beer league team gets to third-base in 'The Ninth'
How many sex related baseball puns can you fit into one comedy series?
Getting to first base means something different to everybody. It can be different degrees of sexual conquest, or simply a position in baseball — The Ninth covers all those bases.
The Ninth is a sex and booze fuelled short comedy series on CBC Gem. It follows the antics of The Boxsprings, an amateur beer league baseball team sponsored by a mattress store.
The Boxsprings are not the finest group of athletes — they smoke joints, drink shots and sleep with each other after smashing some home runs.
The Ninth is a character driven comedy with an ensemble cast. Everybody has a nickname and a story behind how they got it.
Messy Jessie is the sex crazed millennial (played by Jess Salguero, otherwise known as Mean Nanny on Workin' Moms) and she's best friends with Juicebox, the horny, queer son of the baseball captain.
Cash Money is a disgraced cricket star from Sri Lanka who moved to Canada to escape scrutiny from a saucy scandal.
Tony — the young mattress store manager and wannabe team captain — insists that Cash is Indian, even though he's not. But Tony means no harm, he's just ignorant... and very friendly.
After Tony learns about Cash's dark secret in episode three, they become close friends and end up chugging psychedelic scorpion wine together.
Each episode opens on a baseball diamond with The Boxsprings playing their best and worst games in tight-paced dramatic sequences. It's the only baseball action you'll see in the whole series – you don't need to be familiar with the game to enjoy The Ninth.
But if you are a baseball fanatic, you may enjoy some of the cheeky episode titles.
Most underrated part of The Ninth? The theme song. Guaranteed it will get stuck in your head after the first episode.
Once you start watching, it's an easy weeknight binge with only eight 12-minute episodes for the whole series.
Watch the trailer for The Ninth here or start streaming it on CBC Gem below.