Haddonfield was down to its last out when Marco Rocco stepped to the plate Saturday night. The pitch came. Rocco blasted it over the left field fence with a full-circle crescendo to cap a week that brought this 12-year-old boy from the innocence of Little League baseball to a case study on sportsmanship and courtroom polarities.

Haddonfield, New Jersey Little League baseball player Marco Rocco was allowed to play Thursday night in his team's first state tournament game.

A 12-year-old Little Leaguer is "distraught" at the prospect of missing his team's first state tournament game because he was suspended for flipping his bat after hitting a game-winning home run — a type of celebration Little League Baseball promotes on its social media accounts.