Sentences with phrase «outfield walls»

It became as unexpected as ivy on the outfield walls, a pool behind the fence, a gigantic slide with a mascot hurtling down, an apple rising out of the rat - infested depths.

He did everything but bounce off the outfield walls while passing out the goodies.

The signs on the outfield walls, the logos changing from those of pizzas to those of health - care plans by the inning, seem an intrusion, a last stab at modernization that could never work.

Long before he became Giancarlo Stanton, the young Marlins slugger left an unmistakable imprint — on scouts, not to mention countless outfield walls and scoreboards

Reiser, the fiery Pistol Pete who tried unsuccessfully to run through outfield walls in pursuit of fly balls, led the league in hitting -LRB-.343), doubles (39) and triples (17).

And, although the dimensions of the diamond are invariable, there are no fixed measures for the placement of the outfield walls.

All these variations, all these hints of arbitrariness, are absolutely crucial to the aesthetics and moral metaphysics of the game because they remind us that fair territory is, in fact, conceptually limitless and extends endlessly beyond any outfield walls.

Gardeners planted flowers and ivy outside the stadium, and painters covered the outfield wall with a bright blue.

He has hit only six this season, largely, Gamble says, because he has been unable to raise his sights above the 17 - foot - high outfield wall in San Diego Stadium.

Try and hit it over the «Green Monster» of Fenway's left field, call your shot like «The Babe» in the 1932 World Series, or feel the ambiance of the ivy on the outfield wall on the north side of Chicago.

Ward: Wesley had never really played baseball, but the shot of him going over the outfield wall to make that grab in the movie, he actually made that catch.

A ball hit off of the outfield wall will bounce off and come back at you exactly how you thought it would, so playing the angles and making sound decisions in the outfield about when to go for the spectacular catch and when to limit the damage by only surrendering a single will play a big role in your level of success.

Similar to the subject she is recording, Joyce's photographs hinge upon subtleties: the arc and twist of the batter; the skewed gum wrapper lawn darts thrown by bullpen pitchers; the fading traces of a ball's impact on an outfield wall.

2014 «Impact of a Ball and the Outfield Wall, Part 1» (detail), Harper's Magazine, p. 27, August 2014 Stephenson, Sam, Bull City Summer: A season at the ballpark, Daylight Books

Not exact matches

But we want him gone before that image of him in Sarasota, Fla., last week, limping into second base on a sure triple, replaces the one of him as a Kansas City Royals outfielder, making the catch and running up the leftfield wall in Baltimore.

Cubs outfielders Micah Hoffpauir (left) and Sam Fuld crashed into each other and the ivy - covered wall at Chicago's Wrigley Field on Sept. 30 while trying to field a fly ball hit by the Pirates» Andrew McCutchen.

... only problem with outfield seating is you won't be able to see about 30 feet from the wall down from the section you're in and if it's an afternoon game you're going to get blasted with sun because it's one of the (I guess) «traditional» stadiums where the left field line goes straight north - south.

Any place with an outfield bullpen and eight - foot wall could be in play, in theory, like Yankee Stadium or The Ballpark at Arlington.

But the play of the game might have come in the top of the eighth inning, a tremendous leaping catch high over the right field wall in foul territory by Chicago Cubs outfielder Eloy Jimenez.

Outfielders chasing balls to the wall learned to be wary of lurking rattlesnakes.

Escobar got some help from Mets» outfielders Michael Conforto and Yoenis Cespedes, who didn't go at the ball as hard as they probably could have, and then Cespedes kind of booted it into the wall after it fell.

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