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Where fly balls go to become someone else's problem, slowly.
means The grassy outer part of a baseball or cricket field, farther from the batter, where the ball travels when hit hard or high.
from A straightforward compound of 'out' + 'field', first used in cricket for the ground beyond the infield, then carried over into baseball in the 1800s as the sport developed its own terminology — one of many plain, descriptive compounds in bat-and-ball games (infield, backfield, midfield all follow the same practical logic).
- real estate
- three grown adults guard roughly two acres of grass
- the gap
- the loneliest place in team sports, by design
- speed matters
- center fielder covers the most ground, trusted the most
- warning track
- exists so you stop running before you hit the wall