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Felicity Huffman is returning to the small screen after booking her first project since last year’s college admissions scandal, Deadline reports. Huffman is set to star in an untitled baseball comedy at ABC inspired by the true story of Susan Savage, owner of the Minor League Baseball team the Sacramento River Cats.

Huffman will star alongside The Peanut Butter Falcon‘s Zack Gottsagen, who will play her son in the upcoming project, which is described as “A funny, surprising and occasionally heartbreaking half-hour about love, loss, family and Triple-A baseball.” After the sudden death of her husband, Huffman’s character inherits his baseball team.

According to the official series description, “She is forced to navigate her new normal with the help of her dysfunctional family, including her oldest son (Gottsagen), a baseball devotee with Down syndrome, her work family and the Sacramento community at large. This is the story of a woman navigating grief, local politics and the business of sports and learning not just to adjust, but to thrive.”

The ABC comedy comes after Huffman was “heavily courted” for TV projects following the completion of her brief prison sentence, according to Deadline. Huffman was arrested in March 2019 for her part in the college admissions scandal, which included paying a proctor to fix her daughter’s SAT answers. After pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud, she spent 14 days in prison and was released in October 2019.

Huffman was approached by producer Aaron Kaplan about joining the series inspired by Savage, and Gottsagen and writer Hartman Edwards were brought on to join the project as well. Her return to ABC continues a long working relationship between Huffman and the network. Three of her leading series, including Sports Night, Desperate Housewives, and American Crime have all aired on ABC.

The baseball comedy will follow Huffman’s most recent role as Tammy MacDonald in 2019’s Tammy’s Always Dying. That year, also starred in the Netflix comedy Otherhood and Ava DuVernay’s miniseries When They See Us.