Ferris bueller at the baseball game

Before the home run, the game was tied According to the recaps posted on the Internet, the game was a night game. According to my research, his other three home runs to that point came off right-handed pitchers, meaning it was his first of the season off a lefty.

Could I have just cracked a code? I guess I will never know for sure if it was the exact game, but the pieces are there; the evidence is in place. Join Newsletter. And then it just depends on the amount of righties and lefties in the lineup. DR: How many games do you think it would take Ferris sitting in that seat to catch one? ZH: I would say to games, depending on crowd size. If it was packed like usual it would be quite challenging.

ZH: Exactly. Sitting on the stairs would shave a number of games off the estimate to get a baseball there. Being trapped in the second seat from the stairs could make it nearly impossible. But either way, poor Ferris was trapped there and got very luck that the ball came right to him. So if I had to stay in that exact seat without access to the stairs, I think it would take me 50 games to catch a foul ball.

ZH: You can, of course, sit there for an entire season and not get one. Or you could get lucky and get a few. But it would be highly unlikely to get anything without being able to move. DR: Where do you sit in Wrigley if you want the best chance of a foul ball? Ferris Bueller and his pals were at the June 5, , tilt between the Cubs and the Braves.

The foul ball that Ferris caught was hit by Atlanta rightfielder Claudell Washington 15 in the top of the 11th inning. The game was tied at two not scoreless, like the pizza guy claimed and backup second-baseman Paul Zuvella 18 was being held on first by Leon Durham 10 after a leadoff single the fourth hit of the game, and Atlanta's first hit since the fifth.

Washington would end his at-bat with a flyball to leftfielder Davey Lopes. The next batter, Rafael Ramirez, would wind up hitting a two-run home run and the Braves would go on to win The movie, however, cut away before that happened. Sadly, we don't have pitch-by-pitch data for the game, so we can't verify all the details presented in the movie an foul ball from Washington and then a bunt foul?

Was that a bunt by Ramirez before his home run swing? I have no reason to doubt that they are correct, though. Here's the scene, though unfortunately the only YouTube I could find is a mirror image of the actual movie. It's kind of fun in a way, right? When the ball is hit to left field, it looks like it's going to right, etc. I just wonder how or why that's the one time the scene made it onto YouTube, but I guess it's not that important.

Anyway, I know this made your day.