Except that Wells has hit it to the wrong part of the outfield, right field, the lush piece of Chavez Revine real estate where Yasiel Puig roams.
While retrieving balls in the outfield of Field 7, the one with the same dimensions as Citi Field, he stood about 40 feet from the wall, picked up a bat and hit a fungo soaring off into the trees.
LUCIE, Fla .— Moments before Jose Reyes burned across the outfield of Field No. 2 at near top speed, he walked past General Manager Omar Minaya, who was driving a golf cart from one end of the Mets complex to another.
It was the youngest outfield side fielded in the A-League leaving aside Gold Coast United who – in one of their many bizarre moments under Clive Palmer and his nobody-tells-me-what to-do reign – fielded some left-field line-ups during the club's dying days.
That hurt me tonight.'" On a 3-1 countoto Youkilis, the Yankees shaded the outfield toward left field, expecting him to pull.
Shea had a symmetrical outfield, where center field was 410 feet from home plate, the gaps were 378 feet and the left- and right-field lines measured 338.
It was similar to the one that Dr. Scott Rodeo performed on Hideki Matsui's arthritic knees before the 2009 season, and Matsui was running around the Citi Field outfield last week like a Gold Glover.
"People are always trying to pick at the stuff," Fitch said with a sigh, brushing his hand across a small plot of nearly shorn Bermuda grass, the very turf that carpets the outfield at Turner Field in Atlanta.
Wilpon said part of the thinking would be to add some "nooks and crannies" to Shea's symmetrical outfield, where center field is 410 feet from home plate, the gaps are 378 feet and the left- and right-field lines measure 338 feet.
As a Mets fan, I rejoice in the news, as reported by Andrew Keh in the Times, that the team will spend a little money to bring the steppe-like expanses of the Citi Field outfield into closer alignment with The Way (Shea) Things Were.
