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Out of the left field.
(USA) If something comes out of the left field, it is beside the point and has nothing to do with the matter being discussed.
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When Rocker was summoned by Cox in the eighth, he ran from the left field bullpen to the mound to the accompaniment of boisterous boos.
Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian John Harris reports from the Left Field: White-hot debate may have raged about the booking of Metallica, but elsewhere at Glastonbury, there was equally passionate discussion focused on things that may be almost as important: politics, history, the good society – all that stuff.
The Tigers' burly first baseman then tried to score from first on Omar Infante's two-out double but Alex Gordon made a strong throw from the left field corner to shortstop Alcides Escobar, who relayed perfectly to catcher Salvador Perez, who tagged a sliding Fielder to end it.
It approached the control conventions of arcade fighters from the left field, using a range of weird button combos and d-pad swipes, but the result was a complex system too demanding for most ordinary players and utterly counterintuitive to committed beat-'em-up competitors.
In 2010, a firefighter attending a Texas Rangers game in Arlington died when he fell from the left field stands while reaching for a baseball tossed his way by All-Star outfielder Josh Hamilton.
In 1947, well after Dreyfuss' death, and upon the arrival of veteran slugger Hank Greenberg, the bullpens were moved from foul territory to the base of the scoreboard in left field and were fenced in, cutting 30 feet from the left field area, from 365 feet to 335 feet down the line and 406 feet to 376 feet in left-center field.
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With one out, Adrian Beltre ripped a sinker from Carpenter down the left field line.
And so when he climbed out of the dugout to a chorus of adulation, you could see his smile from high in the left field stands.
The Vieiras were inches from the left-field grass once patrolled by Williams, Yastrzemski and Rice, and now by Ramirez.
The first reliever to emerge from the left-field fortress last night was Ricky Bones; the Mets should not expect Atlanta's relievers to be so generous.
Ricky Ledee heard fans screaming at him from the left-field stands at Yankee Stadium the other day, nasty stuff, brutal -- words meant to hurt.
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