Is this Heaven? The Field of Dreams game

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

MLB messes up a lot of stuff, but they are doing a good job with the Field of Dreams game -- choice of visiting team not withstanding.



I thought they did a good job with the Williamsport game, too.



I've been to the field -- the set, not this new field -- and it was really neat. We have a nice family photo in the field with the corn and white house in the background.

[Frayed Knot]

For the record, the first ML HR in the state of Iowa belongs to Jose Abreu. Unfortunately, the second belongs to Aaron Judge.

3-1 Yanx, middle of the 3rd

[Frayed Knot]

Which brings a question to mind: which states have hosted ML* games despite never having a home franchise?



The Brooklyn Dodgers played occasional 'home' games in New Jersey.

MLB staged a Sunday Night game (IIRC) in Ft Bragg a few years back putting North Carolina onto the list.

Iowa makes three.

I suspect there are more though can't think of any right now.











* limiting this to NL/AL games since 1901

[G-Fafif]

The A's played home games in Nevada (Las Vegas) early one season while the Coliseum was undergoing some renovations.

[kcmets]

The only field of dreams game I'm interested in is the one where the DH goes

bye-bye and never returns. Sadly, soon will probably be the field of nightmares,

coming this offseason to a corn field near you.

[Frayed Knot]

Sox = 3 in the cornfield vs 1 for the Yanx

7-3, bottom of the 4th



The dimensions of the park seem to be about average; three of the four HRs have gone out to RF and it's not nearly as short as at YSIII (335 down the line).

But the ball does seem to be carrying.

[kcmets]

Frayed Knot wrote: But the ball does seem to be carrying.

It's the ethanol fumes in the air.

[Edgy MD]

(DebbieDowner)I'm pretty sure the ballfield is several hundred yards from where the field stood in the film. And beyond that, building an actual ballpark around the field kind of undermines the spirit of the enterprise, no?(/DebbieDowner)

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

I'm liking this game more and more. 7-3 Sox!!

[Frayed Knot]

Are they still making ethanol out of corn?

For a while that was considered the big thing among environmentalists but it proved to be more promise than performance to the point where even Al Gore

finally admitted that the (public) money poured into it had been a mistake.



We were passing all kinds of factories? along the way last week (they looked more like overgrown barns) which I'm sure were making something out of corn

and/or soybeans but I have no clue what specifically was going on inside.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: I'm pretty sure the ballfield is several hundred yards from where the field stood in the film.

It is

[Chad ochoseis]

Frayed Knot wrote: Which brings a question to mind: which states have hosted ML* games despite never having a home franchise? * limiting this to NL/AL games since 1901

Not exactly a state (yet) but Puerto Rico hosted a whole lot of Expos "home" games in 2004.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: Which brings a question to mind: which states have hosted ML* games despite never having a home franchise? The Brooklyn Dodgers played occasional 'home' games in New Jersey. MLB staged a Sunday Night game (IIRC) in Ft Bragg a few years back putting North Carolina onto the list. Iowa makes three. I suspect there are more though can't think of any right now. * limiting this to NL/AL games since 1901

Not states, but IIRC, Major League home games were played by Brooklyn in Montreal (Pre-Expos, when it was a Brooklyn farm team) and I think some were played in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but I'm not sure if those were regular season or exhibition games.



OE: was typing this when Chad Ochoseis poster his response that confirms my comment about San Juan.



Later

[Frayed Knot]

And the Yanx/Sawx played at least something resembling baseball in London a few years back.

But I was thinking strictly about U. S. states.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Are they still making ethanol out of corn? For a while that was considered the big thing among environmentalists but it proved to be more promise than performance to the point where even Al Gore finally admitted that the (public) money poured into it had been a mistake.

And it's still subsidized and it probably will be as long as the primary season continues to start with the Iowa Caucus.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Trying to think of other potential places for such a baseball game in the US. They've already played in Williamsport and Fort Bragg.



I know there was the exhibition game on Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, but ever a game that counted?



Maybe Omaha, where the College World Series is played every year?



Maybe a really cool minor-league stadium?



A game in Alaska where the Goldpanners play, or in Hawaii?

[Frayed Knot]

Judge hits his 2nd of the night, this time with one on, and it's 7-6 ChiSox w/2 out in the 9th





btw, we're also well over 3 hours already

[Frayed Knot]

Walk (Gallo) + HR (Stanton) and it's 8-7 Yanx



Fuckin' Rojas!

[Frayed Knot]

2R walk-off HR by Tim Anderson w/one out wins it for the Sox !!!!!!!!!

About 20 corn rows deep

[G-Fafif]

MFYs lose, so yes, it is heaven.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

OK, NOW it's heaven! Thank you, Tim Anderson, American hero.

[bmfc1]

Great ending, especially with Tim Anderson (a non-Met that I like) getting it done.



Manfred said that there will be another game next August and the Cubs Manager accidentally said that the Cubs are in the game. Too bad that the Mets don't play the Cubs that month.

[Frayed Knot]

They would have won if Jeter were out there.

[Frayed Knot]

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Manfred said that there will be another game next August and the Cubs Manager accidentally said that the Cubs are in the game. Too bad that the Mets don't play the Cubs that month.

[bmfc1]

Interesting. So CHC v STL makes sense. (I know nothing about Iowa other than from Field of Dreams and the Caucuses every 4 years so I'd be curious to learn your other observations.)

[Willets Point]

I like that a Black man from Alabama is the hero on a night they're wearing throwback uniforms to the era of segregation.

[Willets Point]

Chad ochoseis wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Which brings a question to mind: which states have hosted ML* games despite never having a home franchise? * limiting this to NL/AL games since 1901 Not exactly a state (yet) but Puerto Rico hosted a whole lot of Expos "home" games in 2004.

The Padres and the Cardinals played a 3-game series at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu in 1997.



The Royals and the Tigers played a game tied in with the College World Series at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha in 2019.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Lunchpail's extremely expensive bat is a Tim Anderson model, so we're like, financially invested in him.

[Frayed Knot]

Willets Point wrote: The Padres and the Cardinals played a 3-game series at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu in 1997. The Royals and the Tigers played a game tied in with the College World Series at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha in 2019.

Excellent.

So we're up to New Jersey, North Carolina, Nevada, Iowa, Nebraska, and Hawaii tacked onto the 17 different states plus DC that regularly host ML games.

And in foreign lands regular season games have been played in Canada (Ontario & Quebec) plus Puerto Rico, Mexico, England, and Japan

[Frayed Knot]

So it seems that last night was the 15th time the White Sox have beat the Yanquis via a walk-off HR.

The first one? 7/20/1919 ... some guy named Joe Jackson



I'm guessing no one called it a 'Walk-Off' back then.