CONCENTRATION OF FACTS: Is Dodger Stadium flooded? No, that was only a dream.

 Many social media users are under the impression that floodwaters flooded the ballpark over the weekend during Tropical Storm Hilary after seeing a popular overhead video of Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium.

One well-liked post on X, now known as Twitter, had a still from the film that appeared to show the stadium submerged in water and the caption, "Dodger Stadium flooded in Los Angeles after Tropical Storm Hilary slams California." Another person added, "Dodger Stadium is an island.

The stadium, which is constructed into a hill, was never submerged, according to the team, and the apparent flood in the video is only a trick of the eye.

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CLAIM: Aerial footage reveals that Hurricane Hilary caused flooding at Dodger Stadium.

THE FACTS: According to Steve Brener, a Dodgers official, the stadium was not flooded. On Monday, the team also uploaded a photo of the parking lot that appeared dry online.

While the video from Sunday does initially give the impression that a moat has formed around the exterior of the building, it is actually simply the stadium's parking lot that is drenched in rain.

The Los Angeles Dodgers Aerial Photography account first published the video that morning on X and Instagram. "Dodger stadium this morning," the post's caption reads. The video and screenshots of the clip were afterwards reposted by others who claimed they showed the area underwater.

Requests for comment from the Los Angeles Dodgers Aerial Photography accounts went unanswered. The image was probably an optical illusion caused by the wet concrete, according to Mark Holtzman, head of the Los Angeles-based company West Coast Aerial Photography, who spoke to the AP.

According to him, the reflections in the water give it a "opaque look" that gives the impression that there is standing water. "It's just the way you've got the rain affecting it, you've got the light coming in on gray," Holtzman remarked.

Hany Farid, a digital forensics specialist at the University of California, Berkeley, added that it can be difficult to distinguish between a moist surface and one that is submerged in several inches of water from a distance aerial perspective. Farid wrote in an email, "I don't think the video is fake or manipulated; I just think that it doesn't show flooding around the Stadium."

Holtzman noticed that the parking lot is not level, so water couldn't pool up. Despite flying over the stadium frequently, he has never seen or heard of it being flooded.

"I've flown over at it, you know, all different times and all different, you know, dry and wet," he remarked. "It appears to be a drizzly stadium."