The Rounders Match is the 11th episode of Series 3 and 91st episode overall of Shaun the Sheep.
Synopsis[]
The Flock and The Pigs are in the middle of a high-spirited game of rounders. Tensions are high as Shaun steps up to the plate – will he score the winning run? Will the Pigs’ foul-play prevent victory? Or will The Farmer discover what they’re up to?
Plot[]
The episode starts with an aerial view of a baseball game between the sheep and pigs. Shawn pitches a tennis ball and a pig who's batter sends it towards Timmy on the outfield. Timmy tries to catch the ball but it lands on the ground next to him. The pig begins running bases. Timmy walks over to the ball and pitches it towards Shaun who catches the ball and tags the last base before the pig could slide there, striking him out. The sheep watching cheer. Suddenly, a sheep keeping lookout signals for everyone to break up because the Farmer came home. Once he went inside, the game continued. Timmy was now batter. One of the pigs who is now pitcher throws at Timmy who closed his eyes. Without swinging, the ball hits the bat and bounces into Shirley's wool. The pig searches through the wool buying Timmy enough time for a homerun, giving the sheep a point. Next, a nervous sheep is up as batter. The pig throws at the sheep but he also has his eyes closed and did not swing. The ball bounces off a pasture wall into the air. It also almost hit Bitzer who was refereeing. The crowd cheers for the sheep to go. The pigs try to get the sheep out, but he manages to stay safe. The time has come for Shaun to bat, and he faces down the pig at pitcher. Just then, the lookout sheep signaled again for everyone to break up because the farmer came out of the house with a bowl of cereal, eating it while checking on his farm. Wanting him gone, Shaun nodded towards Timmy's mom who called the farmer's home phone from a flip phone she grabbed out of her wool. Hearing his phone ring, the farmer goes back inside and the game continues. The pig throws at Shaun and he bats it way out of reach, giving the nervous sheep time to run to last base earning the sheep another point and tying the score. Meanwhile a pig backpedals all the way through the pasture gate and into the farmer's front door trying to catch the ball that was still flying, alerting the farmer. Shaun managed to get himself a homerun within that time. The pig that backed into the farmer's door rushes back into the pigsty. The other animals take a hint and break up the game. The farmer opens his door to check out what's happening only to have the ball Shaun hit finally come down into his bowl of cereal. The farmer looks around to see where the ball came from before going back inside. The sheep celebrate their 4-3 victory. The pigs try to change the score to 2-3 while the sheep had their backs turned and laughs at them. Shaun seeing through their tricks breaks the pig's chalk in half and changes the score back to 4-3. The pig and Shaun go back and forth and the episode ends.