White Sox walk off to win ‘Field of Dreams’ game
DYERSVILLE, Iowa — Chicago White Sox pitcher Lucas Giolito stared at the batter’s eye shaped as a barn in the cornfield beyond the center-field wall.
Standing in the dugout along the third-base line wearing a vintage Sox uniform that was inspired by what the team wore in the early 20th century, Giolito took in all the festivities associated with playing a game in a cornfield.
“It blew me away,” Giolito said of his first reaction to seeing the temporary 8,000-seat ballpark on the farm where the Academy Award-nominated 1989 movie “Field of Dreams” was filmed. “I was expecting to see a lot of corn in the outfield, but I wasn’t expecting these kinds of attention to detail in the dugout.
“And the batter’s eye really gets my attention. They obviously put a lot of work into this.”
It was a Hollywood ending for the Sox as Tim Anderson hit a two-run, walkoff homer to right in the ninth, giving the Sox a thrilling 9-8 victory.
The Yankees scored four runs in the top of the inning to take an 8-7 lead.
The Sox entered the ninth leading 7-4 with Liam Hendriks in to close. He allowed a two-out, two-run homer to Aaron Judge, his second home run of the game. Giancarlo Stanton put the Yankees ahead with another two-run homer.
Seby Zavala walked with one out in the bottom half, and Anderson followed with the game-winner. It was the fourth homer of the game for the Sox. First baseman José Abreu hit a solo home run in the first, and left fielder Eloy Jiménez hit a three-run blast as part of a four-run third inning. Zavala hit a tworun homer in the fourth.