In the "lady in white scene" in Chicago, when Iris stands up and Roy hits the homerun, it appears that the game ends after Roy's hit with the visiting Knight's now in the lead.
What happened to the bottom of the inning and the home team Cub's last at bat?
Never thought of that. Good catch
shareI can't recall what inning that lady in white scene took place in but what I mostly got from it was that Iris by doing that got Roy out of his slump. Maybe it wasn't important to the story that they showed the conclusion of that particular game- the main thing was that Roy was back.
shareThanks- I wasn't questioning the point of the scene, which was very clear. My point was that they did show the end of the game but it was incorrectly in the middle of the inning.
shareI just watched the scene again, top of the 9th, 2 outs, NY Knights behind 4-3, one man on 3rd with Hobbs at bat. Iris stands up, Hobbs hits a tape-measure 2-run homer into the Chicago (home team's) stadium clock. When he touches home he gets a simple handshake from his teammate at home, no big celebration seen from his teammates like running out to congratulate him like he had just hit a game-winning homer. Hobbs trots over towards the dugout and press photographers are taking his picture. A shot of Iris in the stands with most of the people around her still in their seats, a couple of fans are seen walking by her, then the next scene is inside the Knights dressing room. I think the shots of the photographers taking pictures and press asking questions of Hobbs made it appear that the game was over in the top of 9th but other than that there really wasn't any other conclusive evidence onscreen that it was over then- from the relaxed clubhouse after the game it appeared the Knights got through the bottom of the 9th and won 5-4. The film just rightly (if somewhat clumsily) skipped ahead of the bottom-half of the inning since win or lose the game the point was to show Hobbs was back in form. They probably wanted to stay away from yet another cliche bottom of the 9th scenario so changed it up a little, who knows.
shareIt's probably down to editing. The movie is over 2 hours as it is so right or wrong they must've seen a bottom of the ninth where nothing happened as something they could take out to keep the running time down
shareNot the end of the inning. When Hobbs is running around the bases, none of the Cubs are walking off the field so it stands to reason that the inning, and the game, continued. The scene itself was to show Hobbs breaking out of his slump.
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