Game 67: Royals at Twins

First Chuck: 1:10 PM (new anthem each week!)

The Tube: Twins.TV

The Dial: Treasure Island Baseball Network

Spies ‘R Us: Royals Review

Today is Toy Story Day at Target Field. Great timing considering that a slate of blockbuster flicks are scheduled to hit theaters this month and the next (the unofficial kickoff to summer movie season being Memorial Day weekend’s The Mandalorian & Grogu, which I alas found thoroughly mediocre).

Each of these upcoming films has a baseball connection somewhere—even if it takes a little digging to find them. Here’s your shovel…

Disclosure Day (Releases June 12)

Steven Spielberg clearly has a soft spot for the National Pastime—even including it (and somehow making it an incredibly poignant moment) in his 1991 Peter Pan re-imagining Hook.

Toy Story 5 (Releases June 19)

While no explicit baseball references exist in the Toy Story cinematic universe, the voice of its starring character has an iconic role/monologue in the 1992 classic A League Of Their Own.

Supergirl (Releases June 26)

Baseball exists in the Superman canon! In this really good scene from a really bad film (1987’s Superman IV: The Quest For Peace), Christopher Reeve must don the bumbling, aw-shucks Clark Kent disguise to placate an aggressive land man out to buy the Kent farm—after which he takes out his frustration by cracking a cowhide sphere into (literal) orbit.

The Odyssey (Releases July 17)

One really has to turn over some soil to find a hardball connection to English director Christopher Nolan. But the star of his 2014 mega-hit Interstellar—Matthew McConaughey—once prowled a cinematic diamond outfield in the 1994 Disney cult classic remake Angels in the Outfield.

Let’s see if the Twins can produce some cinema of their own this afternoon by taking the final game from KC!