The Sandlot

The Sandlot (1993)

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Corrected entry: During the chase scene, the baseball in Benny's hand keeps changing from left to right. He wouldn't have a reason for switching the ball while running from a dog.

Correction: Why not? He is seen using his hand to brace himself when he jumps over an object, as well as when he lands. Reflexes would cause him to use his dominant hand to brace himself, so he could have switched the ball for that reason. Furthermore, every time the switch is seen, he had plenty of time off-screen to make the switch, so no continuity mistake is made either.

Jazetopher

Corrected entry: Right after squints kiss Wendy, Wendy pulls squints to his feet. When she starts dragging him out you can briefly see crew members over by the concession stands.

Correction: I pulled up this scene on YouTube and watched over it at least a dozen times. The concessions stand is far in the background and the camera pans across it quickly, so even pausing the scene, you still can't definitively make out that anyone is standing over in that area, much less anyone that can be positively identified as a crew member.

Phaneron

Corrected entry: It is established that "The Sandlot" is a relatively vacant lot, mostly dirt, with grass mostly in the infield areas. But numerous times in the scenes involving trying to retrieve the baseball, the background shows a manicured yard with a yellow house just off to the side. It's not in the distance, it's right next to the treehouse. And it doesn't appear that this is just another angle, as we see the treehouse from a distance numerous times, and there is no grass or house anywhere in its area, let alone a full back yard with a grill.

Correction: The treehouse is actually not in the sandlot itself. It's in the backyard of a house that's behind the sandlot (which is also where most of their retrieval efforts take place).

Corrected entry: When Squints goes into the pool in the scene his glasses are in one hand but when they get him out his glasses are in the other hand.

Correction: He is under water for a long enough time to put his glasses in his other hand.

Corrected entry: After Smalls hits his home run one of the kids throws his glove behind him when he is trying to take it off and a kid behind him catches with a surprised look on his face. You may have to slow the film down to see this.

Correction: This would only be a mistake if in real life a kid wouldn't be surprised if a glove bounced up in their face. Since gloves are capable of bouncing like that and anyone would get that surprised look on their face it's perfectly fine for this to have happened.

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, when Benny is "pickled" in the schoolyard, during the pickle his sleeves are rolled up. After he scores he walks along the backstop, and his sleeves are down.

Correction: He could have pulled them down within that amount of time.

Corrected entry: When Smalls is stirring his chocolate milk, he looks up at the camera.

Correction: He looked just past the camera, which was intentional as he's supposed to be looking where his step-dad is.

Corrected entry: When Scott Smalls's dad leaves for Chicago, Scott asks him where he was going. Bill answers that he was going to Chicago on a week long business trip. Then, when Scott hits his homerun ball, and Benny asks him when his old man was getting home, Scott says that he doesn't know when Bill was getting home.

Correction: The boys are so scared of what is going to happen that most likely he forgot. It is also realistic that a kid says, "I don't know", even when he does know. It was written this way in the script on purpose.

Corrected entry: When the treehouse is about to explode, we see Bertram say he's getting out of there and go down the ladder. Then after some scenes we see him running out of the tree house when he was supposedly already down on the ground.

Correction: The tree house has 3 levels. Bertram went up the ladder to warn them on the third level. And is still on the second level as they all exit the tree house.

Corrected entry: When Franklin grabs the ball and hurdles the fence, in the next shot we see the dog (a tiny bulldog) also jump the fence and chase him. No dog that small would reasonably or realistically jump a 12 ft fence, even with a very long-running start. It would be physically impossible. This was purely for comical purposes, nothing else.

eaglegrad16

Correction: Unless you're talking about a deleted scene with a different dog, the "tiny bulldog" is in fact a mastiff. And the 12 foot fence is a 6 foot fence. A mastiff can definitely jump that.

Bishop73

Corrected entry: While everybody is watching Wendy performing CPR on squints he open his eye to them yet none of them tell Wendy he's awake when she gives him her last breath to him.

Correction: You can see everyone is pretty dumbfounded by what Squints is doing, and Wendy leans in to give him another breath before anyone has the opportunity to tell her he's awake.

Phaneron

Corrected entry: Scotty Smalls has a black eye the second day he goes to the sandlot. After Benny teaches him how to catch, he turns around and looks at the fence, and his black eye is healed. When when we see him going home his black eye reappears.

Correction: He still has the black eye when he turns around.

Corrected entry: How can Benny fit a brand new hat and a baseball glove in his back pocket? This is shown in one of the first scenes in the movie, when Benny gives smalls a glove and a hat.

Correction: First of all, the ninth scene in the movie is hardly "one of the first." Second, Smalls is already wearing the glove, Benny only takes the cap from his back pocket, which is visibly folded when he hands it to Smalls. Even if it wasn't old and worn, you can still fit a brand new baseball cap in the back pocket of a pair of jeans.

Knever

Corrected entry: When the rival team challenges the boys, they throw down their gloves, when "Ham" throws down his glove, it flips back and hits "Squints". If you look closely, he doesn't know what to do with it, and just drops it.

Correction: Ham didn't throw that glove, Squints did. It flipped back and hit Tommy "Repeat" Timmons, not Squints.

Corrected entry: Before Wendy (lifeguard) jumps off her tower to rescue "Squints", she takes off her sunglasses and throws them to the floor. After she gets back on the tower, she only takes her whistle back and puts it on. She doesn't have her sunglasses on. But on the next shot, we see her with them on, without having gotten down to the floor to get them.

Correction: Yes, but the next scene with her in it is after the boys leave and get their clothes. In the time they were doing that, she got down and back up.

Corrected entry: In the movie James Earl Jones claims to have played with Babe Ruth. How could he have played with Ruth if Ruth retired in 1935, and the first black player in the major league Jackie Robinson did not play until 1947?

Correction: Major league maybe, but all-black teams did play white all-star teams during the early 20th century on barnstorming trips and other promotions.

Corrected entry: When the boys are playing baseball against the other team in the middle of the movie, they show everyone hitting the ball with a wooden bat. But if you listen carefully, you can tell that the sound of the ball hitting the bat was made by a metal bat, not wooden. A metal bat makes the "clinging" sound that is in the film.

Correction: The sound used was DEFINITELY a wooden bat sound. There was not even a slight pinging sound.

Corrected entry: Towards the end of the movie when Benny is playing ball with his teammates, he hits the ball out to the field. Timmy uses his left hand to catch the ball, but in the next scene you see Timmy using his right hand to catch.

Correction: He's ambidextrous. It's not a mistake to be able to use both hands like that.

Knever

Corrected entry: At the end, Benny is playing for the Dodgers and stealing home. As he starts his slide, he is going in feet first. An instant later, the catcher is trying to tag him out and Benny is sliding in hands first.

Correction: In the second shot of his sliding, he is not sliding head first. You can tell that he just twisted his body around to avoid the tag.

Corrected entry: In Mr. Mertle's house, an Atlanta Braves pennant is visible on the wall. It is established that the film takes place in 1962, but the Braves didn't move to Atlanta until 1966.

Cubs Fan

Correction: It was not an Atlanta Braves pennant on the wall. It was a Milwaukee Braves pennant.

Continuity mistake: When the fence is about to fall on the dog, it changes camera angles. In each camera angle the fence falls in different directions. Plus when it starts falling, the dog turns around facing the fence, but when it falls on him, he is facing the other way.

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Trivia: Benny and his real life brother Pablo played the same character at different ages.

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Question: At the end of the movie, it shows Benny managing to steal home, being called safe, the catcher arguing that Benny was out and the umpire saying Benny was safe. In slow motion, it shows the catcher catching the ball and tagging Benny as he slides into home so why wasn't Benny called out?

Answer: The umpire got the call wrong in that case. It happens all the time in real life. It wasn't allowed back then, but now Major League Baseball and other sports leagues will use instant replay to make sure they get close calls right.

Phaneron

Answer: The catcher tags Benny on the chest after he touches home plate with his left hand. Safe.

LorgSkyegon

Answer: The film shows Benny beating the tag. Although the ball gets there before Benny, the catcher tags Benny a split second after his hand touches home plate.

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