Bizarre Obstacle Defines Wacky Ballpark
Bizarre Obstacle Defines Wacky Ballpark, If you’re going to play at this high school baseball field, be wary of the ground rules. One of the beauties of high school baseball is the wide variety and interesting settings of prep diamonds. Not only are high school fields less standardized, they’re often shoehorned into the strangest of spots.
Take fields in Massachusetts, for example. As documented in depth by the Boston Globe, Massachusetts high schools feature some of the most uniquely oriented fields in all of baseball. None of those may be more unique than the field that Braintree (Mass.) High calls home. It has the right-field fence and foul territory defined by the town hall.
As you can see in the photo above, Braintree’s field doesn’t have a foul pole; it has a building. The setting has required some rather unique rule modifications to work in the town hall. Among the alterations from traditional rulebooks are the following procedures, as outlined by the Globe:
While French’s Common can no longer host tournament games under MIAA rules, the first thing to know is there is no outfield fence at the park. Most of the two-story town hall acts as a wall, where the bounce is in play. A hit that lands on the roof is a double but if the ball hits a green pavilion on top, or clears the roof all together, it is a home run. Part of the building is only one-story high, providing an easier target for a short home run.
For easy extra-base hits, balls that roll under the first-floor staircase or down into the basement stairwell are ground-rule doubles.
If a hit kicks around the back of the Town Hall, fielders have to run into a parking lot after it. Stranger still, the visiting bench is situated so it creates a blind spot between part of the backstop and third base.
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