NOUN
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the left third of the outfield (looking from home plate)
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the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left
the batter flied out to left
How To Use left field In A Sentence
- Here's something out of left field: The term "podunk," is of American Indian origin. Durangoherald.com
- Bonds never moved in left field as the ball sailed far above him - a drive estimated at 434 feet.
- In the bottom of the fifth, the Kikuyus added an insurance run when Harold got aboard on an error and Demetrius slapped a routine grounder that went under the shortstop's glove and past the left fielder.
- While he used more complex sentences consistently, some of them seemed to come out of left field.
- In the bottom of the fifth inning, Manny Ramirez hit a shot down the third base line that caromed off the stands and struck Gerry Davis, the left field line umpire.
- The question came out of left field, but Mary Ann wasn't really surprised.
- He got ahead in the count 2-0, but on the next pitch, he lofted a fly ball to left field - deep enough to score the run, but a bringdown nonetheless.
- On July 12, Gibson gave up just three hits in a win over Houston, but one was Denis Menke's seventh-inning blooper that landed just inside the left field foul line and plated a run.
- The hitter cracks a deep fly ball, playable down the left field line.
- When it was over last night, though, he was a kid again, running in from left field, hair flying, tugging his uniform shirt out of his pants.