A sweet turn by Amy Smart, Judd Hirsch trotting out another version of “curmudgeonly” and a sensitive take on childhood anxiety are what the kids baseball dramedy “Rally Caps” has to recommend it.

It’s a limp noodle of a “family” film, about as far from “edgy” as you can get. The big message is somewhat swamped by maudlin attention to “Big Game” kids’ sport film formula. But it’s inoffensive, and perhaps a potential mental health conversation-starter in some families.

As Hirsch’s baseball-mad grandpa mutters about his nervous, jumpy grandson, “Who knew kids could get the yips?” Yeah, they can. Children can have anxiety before they can spell the word.

Jordy (Carson Minniear) is an Orioles fanatic whose chief baseball skills might be the vast collection of “rituals” and “routines” he picked up from Baltimore Orioles lore — this star tapping each foot five times before a play, that one grabbing the bill of his cap a certain way.

The problem is, Jordy learned all that from his father and grandfather. And Dad died the year before. Now, Jordy’s got a much older brother (Ben Morang) away at college and nobody to coach him but grandpa. Grandpa is all about the “routines.” Jordy takes these rituals to extremes.

One traumatic Little League tryout later has Mom (Smart) nursing Jordy on the field and rushing him to the emergency room. It’s going to take more than a rituals and summer baseball camp with older brother Rob coaching to get Jordy over “the yips” and everything else going on in his head.

A novel touch — Jordy’s into baseball movies, and imagines visits with his dead dad on the field, or in the corn “Field of Dreams.”

Another touch? Several other kids are working through issues — one has cochlear implants, and so on.

Everything else, including the summer-ending “Big Game,” featuring play by play by goofy camp leader Jerry (James Lowe) and a professional baseball announcer, is generic enough to bore anybody older than Little League age.

“Play by play” announcers in Little League games are a lazy screenwriterly conceit of kid sports movies, a way of over-explaining what’s happening and what players are capable of or going through when visuals alone should be enough to get that info across.

When all the kids are “types,” and the camp stuff is a collection of tropes of the experience and cliches from a million other movies (a scary “swim test,” pranks and practical jokes), we know what’s happening, to whom and why and how this all will turn out because the formula is that rigid.

No doubt the book this is based on traffics in those cut-and-paste experiences, character types, etc., as well. Harmless as “Rally Caps” is, you’d kind of hope somebody would put more thought into the story than this.

Even graded on the kid-movie-curve, “Rally Caps” comes up short.

Rating: unrated, fart jokes

Cast: Carson Minniear, Ben Morang, James Lowe, Amy Smart and Judd Hirsch.

Credits: Scripted and directed by Lee Cipola, based on a novel by Jodi Michelle Cutler and Stephen J. Cutler. A Crystal Rock release.

Running time: 1:35