It was April 18 at Wrigley Field. The Arizona Diamondbacks were 12-7, still had their pitching core intact and chaos wasn’t reigning supreme. Little did the club know that they would rattle off a 10-run inning that Friday against the Chicago Cubs and lose.
Even less likely? The D-backs realizing that crazy 13-11 scoring fest would be featured in a Knives Out film that Netflix released on it service earlier this month.
Rian Johnson, director of “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,” recently told the MLB Network Podcast that he wanted the movie’s plot to be set in 2025 — despite being filmed in 2024 — and the date of the specific game worked in tandem with when the mystery murder was supposed to occur.
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“We were waiting until the very last moment of post-production until we had that specific Cubs game that happened,” Johnson said. “I was like, ‘This one will work. It happens the day of the murder. It happens at exactly the right time.’
“Luckily, there wasn’t a rain delay in the game, and we were able to capture it and slug it in there.”
The third installment in the film franchise has a cast led by Daniel Craig, Cailee Spaeny and Jeremy Renner, and in it you can pick out Cubs right fielder Kyle Tucker on a TV screen behind Jud Duplenticy, played by Josh O’Connor.
Sampson, another character in the Knives Out movie portrayed by Thomas Haden Church, is actually seen perusing through two Cubs games. The other was Cubs vs. Twins on Aug. 7, 2024.
The Major League Baseball easter egg gets good screen time, and you’ll have to watch the feature as for why.
Revisiting D-backs-Cubs game in Knives Out film
The Diamondbacks were coming off of a five-game winning streak, including a series win over the eventual NL Central champion Milwaukee Brewers.
Prized offseason acquisition Corbin Burnes was making his fourth start in Sedona red after three less-than-stellar ones.
Chicago kept his early-season ERA high with catcher Carson Kelly clubbing a two-run home run in the second inning, but Burnes settled in for four proceeding scoreless frames.
Through five innings, the first of three at Wrigley Field (on Good Friday, fittingly for the movie’s plot) was a quiet 2-1 ballgame after outfielder Corbin Carroll knocked in Gabriel Moreno in the fifth.
An Ian Happ grand slam and another insurance run via Michael Busch in the sixth pushed the lead to six.
But the craziness hadn’t even begun, as it turned out.
Arizona sent 13 batters to the plate in the top of the eighth and saw 10 runs score on eight hits and one Chicago error. Eugenio Suarez cashed in on a 458-foot grand slam after three straight singles led off the frame. With two outs, the D-backs added the final six runs as a three-run shot by Lourdes Gurriel Jr. to cap it was made possible following a Happ throwing error.
If you lost track, 11-7 Arizona now.
Just three Cubs batters into his relief, righty Bryce Jarvis saw the Arizona lead shrink to just one with Kelly crushing his second home run after two were aboard via hit by pitch and walk, respectively.
Jarvis managed to pocket one out before Joe Mantiply completely coughed up the lead and then some, the third and final D-backs reliever giving up four singles and two home runs.
Carroll was the final lifeline with two outs and Alek Thomas on second base but he flew out to shortstop.
All in all, perfect for a Knives Out thriller.
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