Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron go to a major league ball game during their hiatus in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off." At which stadium do they watch the game?

In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, this 1986 comedy starring Matthew Broderick is a sport-centric movie where a fun loving group of teens, having decided to skip school spend time cruising around the city of Chicago. At one point, they (Ferris, Sloane, and Cameron) find themselves attending an afternoon Cubs ball game. (Well, of course it was a day game, since the first night game wasn’t played at Wrigley Field until 1988.) yes this gang was really at Wrigley Field for a baseball game. Also Ferris actually catches a foul ball in this scene from his field-level seat near the left field foul pole in Wrigley.

As Ferris caught the foul ball, off in the distance, the Cubs are on the field and one or two baby-blue uniforms are seen around the diamond. It appears obvious that this is a real ball game and that it is not just something recreated by a film crew. The Harry Caray play-by-play and the Braves players on the field are solid evidence that it is real.

What game is used in the film? The film was released in June 1986. Here the ballgame must have been filmed either early in the 1986 season or sometime during 1985. Looking at ball game logs from those seasons, there was no game in 1986 in which Lee Smith (#46) faced the Braves at Wrigley Field. There were four games in ’85, though Smith left the Braves hitless in one of those.