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left field

NOUN
  1. 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)
  2. 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.
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