In the pantheon of great baseball movies, Brian DePalma’s “The Untouchables” barely rates, and justifiably so. It’s about prohibition. It’s about gangsters — and nobody even plays baseball in it.

But there is that one scene…

In the flawless dialogue that could only have been written by David Mamet, Robert De Niro’s Al Capone brandishes a baseball bat at a black tie dinner with this incompetent criminal capos and says that they, like baseball players, must do well both alone and together to thrive.

“A man stands alone at the plate,” De Niro says. “This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.”

Everybody gets nowhere, the infamous killer says, “unless the team wins.”

Minus the brutal happenings which follow that speech, the new men at the helm of the Bainbridge High School baseball program couldn’t agree more. They’re all about teamwork, so much so that they’re tackling the top job together.

Longtime friends, BHS parents and regular golf buddies Doug McCombs and Bill Ackerley are taking on the job tag- team style. The division of labor is still pretty fluid at this point, though generally both men have clear areas of responsibility marked out. McCombs is the head coach on the field. He runs practices and assigns positions. Ackerley is co-head coach. He works with the pitchers, specifically, advises McCombs during play and acts as the team’s general manager/spokesman.

“We both have coached youth sports for a decade or more, had kids go through the program and we love the game and we’re always studying it. And we know there’s always more to learn,” Ackerley said.

“I think what we bring to the table is [that] we are a team, a tandem, that’s worked together before, we’re comfortable with each other. We know how to cover each other’s blind spots because we’ve been exposed to them.

“This is our chance, after many years of either running our own businesses or being involved in business, to give back,” he added. “Some people do it with money, some people do it in other ways. This is our way.”

McCombs agreed, and said the other advantage a team-coaching model brings is double the experience.

“The other obvious thing is the maturity,” McCombs said. “We’ve got a lot of age between us and that will bring maturity to the program. We’re going to coach a little bit different than the younger guys, but what we’re going to bring to the table is experience.”

The new co-head coaches are being backed by three assisting coaches: Burton Shields, Ron Duncan and longtime island baseball icon Gregg Mesmer.

Several special assistants have been brought in to assist in specific areas as well, including Jeff D’Amico, Robby Ackerley and Brian Feldtman.

It’s viable to have with us a team of coaches, including former players, to help bridge that age gap when it’s necessary,” Bill Ackerley said. “We need more eyes and we’re taking advantage of the people that know the game very well and even have gone through this program.”

The new lead duo took over for departing Head Coach Simon Pollack, who stepped down in July 2016. Pollack himself had taken over the role just the year before from David Smart, who held the position since 2010.

The rapid turnovers after several years of comparative stability could not help but affect the team, both coaches agreed, though the Spartans continued to hold their own in the brutally competitive Metro League.

“They’ve actually had success on the field, but we would like to continue that if not build on it,” McCombs said. “We feel their successes can be added to. We feel that the players weren’t being utilized 100 percent and we want to bring the best out of them.”

Ackerley agreed, and said the ultimate goal of the program was to “help the community raise good young men.”

“The program has gone through, like every program, a series of different coaches,” he said. “We have the luxury of being able to care about it beyond the hours that somebody might expect. We want this to be a really good program from an old-fashioned sense; it goes beyond the field of play.”

Regarding the oft-battered-about idea that Bainbridge would fare better outside of the Metro, both coaches readily agreed that they prefer to keep it strictly 3A.

“The best baseball teams in the whole state are in Metro and we’ve always competed very well in Metro,” Ackerley said. “We’re where we should be.”

McCombs and Ackerley have no immediate major changes planned for the program beyond a more specific, organized practice schedule, they said, though they do intend to foster a more inclusive relationship with Little League and a comprehensive philosophy between the varsity, JV and C-Teams.

“It’s one team, one program,” Ackerley said. “It just has three rosters. That’s one of the key mantras that we’re bringing this year.”

“That’s exactly why Bill and I decided to do this in tandem,” McCombs agreed. “So that we can go ahead and manage the entire program instead of just the varsity team. With that said, we’re going to be doing a lot of movement between teams. We’re going to go down and watch the JV and the C-Team games. We’re going to be moving kids back and forth. If somebody’s not getting playing time up here, we’re going to move them down so they can see some innings down there and vice versa. If a kid’s doing well at the lower level, we’ll bring him up.”

The starting varsity roster boasts six seniors, including co-captains Matthew Spence and Brooks Wallace, also Jack Niehaus, Ben McDonald, Evan Ferguson and Alex Farley; juniors Garrett Aichele, Theo Colgan, Tad Grindeland, Mitch Kurtz, Brooks Lierle, Ian Matthews, James McMurray and Ethan Schulte; and sophomore Liam Hatakenaka.

The Spartans’ first home game is slated for 4 p.m. Monday, March 13, against Bishop Blanchet.