The Cubs game played against the Braves June 5, 1985 was immortalized in the film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” That game happened exactly 39 years ago today.
Details were unearthed and written up in 2011 by Larry Granillo at Baseball Prospectus:
On the screen we see Chicago first-baseman #10 holding on an Atlanta Braves player wearing #18. The announcer pipes in: “Runner on first base, nobody out. That’s the first hit they’ve had since the fifth inning, and only the fourth hit in the game. … 0-2 the count.”
Chicago pitcher #46 throws the pitch to a left-handed Atlanta hitter with a two-digit number ending in “5” and what appears to be a long last name.