Hell, Dodger fans obsess about the Giants more than Giants fans do!
Fever Pitch ends with the Red Sox winning the World Series.
Don’t be silly. 1918, remember?
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This is subtle but in the third Costner baseball movie, For Love of the Game we have him as Billy Chapell, pitcher for nineteen years, playing for the Tigers nineteen years, in the last game of the season wondering if he’s going to be traded when the new owners take over next year. Only thing is, the agreement between the Players Association and the owners at the time stipulated that a player who’d been in the majors for at least ten years and the same team for five, had the right to veto any trade offered. Chappell could have continued pitching for Detroit until his contract ran out, if he wanted.
Looks stupid, but if the game is not yet official or is almost over, then yes, they’ll usually keep playing even during a heavy downpour. I don’t know when it’s supposed to start raining during the movie, but it’s not impossible.
Thank you for that. But, based on your analysis (and if I can count correctly), the lineup still doesn’t work:
Cerrano, the #4 hitter, homers in the 7th with 2 outs. Let’s assume the #5 hitter then ends the inning. And let’s then assume that the eighth inning goes 1,2,3. That means we start out the ninth inning with the #9 hitter up. But you said the movie jumps to the ninth with 1 out, and we see Tomlinson fly out before Hayes beats out a hit. Therefore, Tomlinson is the leadoff hitter, and Hayes is batting 2nd. Plausible? Yes, of course. But it certainly doesn’t make sense, given how prototypical Hayes is as a leadoff man.
Then again (and as I said earlier), it doesn’t make baseball sense to put your catcher (he of the bad knees, and presumably the slowest player on the team), bat right behind Hayes (your fastest player) in the lineup. Given his experience and power (i.e. calling his shot before laying down a bunt wouldn’t have worked if he was a slap hitter), he should have batted behind Cerrano, to increase the likelihood that Cerrano gets more good pitches to hit.
[Yes, I know I’m nitpicking to death here, and I’ve gone beyond the point of implausibility. But I love this movie almost as much as I hate the sequels, so I’m enjoying being a curmudgeon]
I see your point about the veteran player’s right to veto a trade, but he couldn’t stay on the active roster with team if they just didn’t want him anymore. Detroit could always give him his outright release. Maybe they’d still have to pay him, but it isn’t like he could take the mound against the team’s wishes.
Most times when cricket appears, the camera often takes up a position in the cover point region, meaning that unless your fine leg is squarish or your square leg is backward, the field behind the batsman is empty. So they’ll usually chuck in few leg slips for effect, and when a pace bowler is operating, almost always unrealistically close to the bat.
True, but IIRC the feeling I got was that the new owners wanted to trade him while he had still had some value and/or to trim the roster payroll. It was the whole “treated like a commodity” instead of “one of the family” gestalt.
Actually, I did all the scenarios out, and the situation as shown in the movie is impossible, not just implausible. If there are 2 outs, nobody on in the bottom of the 7th and we’re on batter X (the batter after Cerrano in the lineup), then we jump to the bottom of the 9th with 1 out, nobody on, and the score is the same, then the next batter has to be somewhere between X+5 (5 outs, nobody in in the meantime) and X+11 (5 outs, bases loaded but nobody scores in 7th, bases loaded but nobody scores in 8th). Given that there are 9 batters, that reduces to X+2. But we know it’s Tomlinson, Hayes, Taylor, Dorn, Cerrano, X, so Tomlinson is X-5 = X+4. There’s no situation, short of rearranging the batting order, to get X+4 up when we see him in the movie.
Double switch?
It’s possible, I guess, but what’s the point? They’re American League, so you’ve got to pull 2 position players to do a double switch. It’s tied, so if you don’t score, you just go to extra innings, and you’ve weakened yourself defensively. And Uecker doesn’t say anything about it, which you’d really expect an announcer to do.
Not in Miami. Not official, almost over, don’t matter… a rainstorm like that they’d certainly come off the field and either call it or see if they can wait it out.
Part of that might be that in FL a rainstorm like that is probably more likely to have associated lightning than one in San Fran might, but still… I don’t recall the last time I saw a clip of an actual game in a downpour.
In Tin Cup, if Costner is really that good, why is he the pro at a driving range? If he is in the top 100 best players in the States he can play on tour and be a millionaire. If he is in the top 300 he can play overseas and make a very good living. He is a head case but so is John Daly who has made scores of millions of dollars.
In Happy Gilmore, once he goes to his happy place and learns how to putt, he drives every green and then one putts, yet his score for the tournament is around -8.
In The Naked Gun, there’s a grand slam in which four players cross second base behind the pitcher.
Also, Crash Davis in Bull Durham did make the major leagues at one point. He talks about it on a bus ride, remember? The batting practice balls are all brand new, other people carry your bags, etc. He was in the Show.