We're playing in a small ballpark.
"Nice, small ballpark," Schmidt said in March at the World Baseball Classic.
But playing in a small ballpark, the Mets need more power in their lineup to match the Yankees.
His E.R.A. in his last five starts is 11.91, and he faces one of the best offensive teams in baseball in its small ballpark.
A pitcher can make a relatively good pitch in a small ballpark and still allow a home run, and if this occurs consistently, the pitcher may try to make adjustments when he really didn't make a mistake.
But once on Staten Island, few make it out of the terminal, where a deck attached to the terminal offers a sweeping view of a parking lot caked with goose droppings, the small ballpark of the minor-league Staten Island Yankees and beyond, another parking lot.
THIS week 7,500 jaded New Yorkers spilled out of the subways and swarmed past Nathan's hotdogs, and vendors selling funnel cakes and fried clams, to squeeze themselves into a small ballpark built on the charred ashes of a Coney Island amusement park.
A spring wind blew out of the Northwest, driving over the left-field wall, swerving inside the small ballpark, twisting near the stands along the first-base line and spinning outward, rippling the sleeves of the home plate umpire and slamming into the faces of the pitchers.
