Basically what the title says. I am from Denmark, know very little about baseball except the basic rules and that the Rockies are awesome.
In Denmark nobody cares about baseball, so I am looking for someone to talk too. Will you talk with me?
Basically what the title says. I am from Denmark, know very little about baseball except the basic rules and that the Rockies are awesome.
In Denmark nobody cares about baseball, so I am looking for someone to talk too. Will you talk with me?
Oh my gosh bc there is less air to push against? That’s kinda crazy! Y’all must have to take that into account when you pick pitchers. A tricksy pitcher throwing mostly curveballs and cutters would have a harder time than a speed demon. Lorenzen does seem to have his fastball as his primary pitch so that’s probably good for him.
Heheh yeah it’s usually easier to just say Boston lol
Exactly! And yes we have to… but of course we don’t, because you know :p but it is very cool. It is not only fastballs though. I have a hard time explaining, but it mostly effect balls that try to work against gravity with its spin. Balls that curve horizontally is still effected of course, but less than vertical curves.
It really demands good pitchers, because they have to be able to take into account the weird way the ball behaves at Coors, but also be able to pitch normally in away games.
It really makes me sad, that the Rockies have such bad management, because they could really be a cool team. Like maybe not top tier, but at least decent and with fun games because of those weird mechanics of the high altitude. Which also would make it sad if the team just got moved.
Haha naturally. Wack that they chose to just… ignore an entire aspect of the place they play 50% of the games…
That’s crazy, it’s like a whole other mechanic of the game that is only relevant in one park! Kinda like Fenway with the Green Monster lol
The parks are so cool tho bc I don’t think other sports have such differences in the parks. Like a football field is a football field is a football field l, ya know? (please correct me if that is not true of your football. Is it called a pitch?) But Fenway is so different from Coors is so different from Wriggly. Fun fact the Astro’s park used to have a HILL in center field. And the Yankees, many many years ago, had STATUES in center.
I kinda want to see a game in every stadium but we shall see if that ever comes to be lol
Very true that the Rockies are tied to their park in ways that other teams are not! Like the Rays’ park recently caved in during a hurricane but no one is that sad about it bc that park was kinda bad (allegedly) and it wasn’t intrinsic to the team’s identity. They had a sting ray tank tho which is cool (there was a net to protect them from fly balls, fret not) but a Rocky that doesn’t live in the Rockies would be silly!
Uuuh, tell me more of this Green Monster! I assume it is not the energy drink :p
Nah, I think it is called a football field as well. But very true. There are some leeway as to quality, dryness/wetness etc. And I guess the curve of spinning balls would also be effected by air pressure in our football, but it would hardly be a mechanic or something I ever heard anyone talk about.
lol statues on the field is so ridiculous. Like why xD ? A huge sting ray aquarium is cool though! I hope they keep that feature in whatever they build next !
And wow. Going to each ball park would be a crazy undertaking. I hope you manage to do it!
So you probably know that Boston is NOT on a grid. In fact many of the roads follow old cattle paths or new shorelines as the buildable land was expanded into the late 1800s. Fast forward a few decades and Boston wants to build a baseball stadium but there isn’t a lot of room… no problem! Well just build a giant wall in left field and it’ll all come out in the wash! So now Fenway looks like this:
So that adds… weirdness generally but it also turns many doubles into singles, home runs into outs, and some of the other corners turn singles into home runs. And whoever is playing LF needs to ‘play the wall’ as they say. Bc the ball bounces off the wall, you gotta take that into account when positioning. Apparently routine catches aren’t YouTube video worthy lol so I couldn’t really find a video besides this one (which is another short so sorry if you can’t see it!) https://youtube.com/shorts/enCktNoC4TU
Ah yeah that makes sense. It’s also probably easier to have consistent football fields bc they are a rectangle.
Ikr!!
Hehe thanks! 2 down, 28 to go!