“I think it’s one of the first times where people had their headphones out, and they were just glued to the windows, checking out the scenery. “Usually when you get to a new city, guys get on their phone, they’re texting, calling people, listening to music,” Judge said. The 20-minute ride from the airport to Field of Dreams was much different from other bus trips, Judge said. It was a whirlwind day for both teams, especially the Yankees, who flew in from Kansas City, Mo., to Dubuque, Iowa on Thursday morning. The crowd’s brief muted reaction shifted back to a fever pitch in welcoming the first MLB game in Iowa history. “No, it’s Iowa,” the crowd responded in unison, slightly louder. “I don’t think I heard you,” Costner said. There’s probably just one question to answer.” Major League Baseball has kept its promise. “It’s perfect,” Costner told the crowd of 8,000. Costner spoke almost as slowly as his entrance from the cornfield. From a 17-foot removable wall, which covered nine rows of cornstalks, the White Sox and Yankees trotted to the diamond and lined up on opposite sides of second base. Joining Costner minutes later were the living ghosts of baseball present. Costner appeared from an open row of corn and lumbered slowly from the edge of the warning track, through the outfield and toward second base before stopping just shy of the pitcher’s mound to address the crowd. Soft violins greeted Costner, who stood just beyond the right-field wall 15 minutes before first pitch. The game did that well before the teams took the field. It’s rare when an event so hyped matches the expectations. “Being able to walk it off is definitely one of my best moments of my career, for sure.” “It was definitely a pretty cool moment all around,” Anderson said. “I still can’t believe it,” White Sox left fielder Eloy Jiménez said. It sent the crowd into a frenzy, and Anderson’s White Sox teammates doused him with water when he reached home. And once (Yankees reliever Zach Britton) walked (Zavala), I knew there was a chance to start something real dope.”Īnderson then crushed Britton’s first pitch opposite way into the right-field cornstalks. With one out in the bottom of the ninth, White Sox catcher Seby Zavala walked after starting his at-bat down 0-2. With the stadium more neutral than a pure White Sox home game, the vibe remained upbeat when the White Sox faced their final at-bats. That changed quickly when Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton each hit two-out, two-run homers to put the Yankees up 8-7. The teams combined for five home runs entering the ninth inning, and the White Sox led 7-4. By night’s end, the game matched the atmosphere … and then some. It was delayed a year because of COVID-19, but the rural Iowa countryside provided MLB with an idyllic setting for a mid-August evening. In 2019, Major League Baseball announced its plans to stage a game at “Field of Dreams” and built its own stadium on a different section of the farm. The field remained in place and has become a quaint and serene destination for baseball fans for more than three decades. Kinsella, who was played by Kevin Costner, reconnected with his estranged and deceased father, and they enjoyed a catch in the movie’s climax. It became a destination for the ghosts of “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and seven other members of the White Sox who were banned for life after throwing the 1919 World Series. In 1989, “Field of Dreams” was filmed in northeast Iowa, where a fictional farmer named Ray Kinsella plowed under his crop to build a baseball field. The real-life sequel that aired Thursday was every bit as compelling as the 32-year-old original. “These are the moments you want to be in.” “Once I made contact, I knew it was over. Field corn or sweet corn? Shoot, this game had nothing but eight home runs’ worth of popcorn.
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