That baseball game revisited

[ffutures]

I now realise, watching the clip for about the fourth time and finally noticing the giant map in Mission Control, that the plane is off the East coast travelling North-East at the time of the shuttle launch. This means that I can ignore time zones, but it can't be Dodgers Stadium. I think that I'll say it's Gotham City Stadium.

OK, so when do baseball games usually start and roughly how long is a typical game?

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

OK, so this has to be early in the game - let's say it's definitely the first half.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

There's plenty of exceptions. The Boston Red Sox have a game that starts at 11am on Patriot's Day, so that the crowd can let out in time to see the end of the Boston Marathon. As far as length goes, I've seen games run just a touch over 2 hours, but Red Sox v Yankees games rarely run under 4 hours long. If you need it to be longer, that isn't a problem: games can't end in a tie, so they just keep playing until somebody wins... which can run six hours or more.

Is there some reason it can't be Metropolis Stadium? Or one of the even more vaguely located imaginary cities like Central City?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Not really - anywhere on the East coast is probably fine (which does rule out Central City, presumably). The plane definitely comes down in a city near the coast - you can see the sea at some points as it's spiralling down, and it fits the mission control map I mentioned.