Petco Park: It’s ‘baseball proof’
sdsporting blogged something interesting today on orting.blogspot.com.
Here’s a quick excerpt:
As much as we all didn’t like Barry Bonds, perhaps the most unpopular baseball player of all time, he did get one thing right.
“Baseball proof” is how Bonds described San Diego’s Petco Park after his first appearance in the spacious stadium.
For proof, just ask Jody Gerut of the Padres.
He hit a fly ball 399 feet against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night that would have been a grand slam anywhere else in baseball.
Instead, Alex Romero made a terrific over-the-shoulder basket catch at the fence to rob Gerut and preserve Arizona’s 3-0 win.
If the game had been in Arizona, the ball would have landed in the pool beyond right-center for a grand slam. In other parks, it would also have been well beyond the wall.
In San Diego, it reopened the controversy about whether they should move the 400-foot fence in right-center closer to home plate.
The answer, without argument, is “yes.”
Just think […]
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