Just Like in Real Life, MLB 15 Empties Stadium for Orioles Game

Due to violent protests in Baltimore, Orioles games earlier this week were forced to be postponed. Rather than continue to push a game against the Chicago White Sox back, the teams instead made Major League Baseball history on Wednesday by playing in an empty stadium--something that MLB 15: The Show recreates when playing that particular game.

As noted on Reddit and Pastapadre, choosing to play the April 29 game between the Orioles and White Sox causes the entire 45,000-seat stadium to be emptied (save for a few small areas that presumably can't be tweaked on the fly). The game ordinarily offers crowds of different sizes depending on various factors, but the pendulum never swings so far as to have no one in attendance.

Aside from the size of the crowd, the MLB 15 game plays out as any other would. The same was largely true of the real-life version, which still saw "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" played and the official attendance of zero announced to the nonexistent audience, according to the New York Times. You can see what the scene looked like in the image to the right.