Maths Inside Baseball

feet in length and 37 feet in height, also known as the “Green Monster”.
The Green Monster is the highest wall in baseball, offsetting MLB’s
shortest outfield. Fenway park had to create the Green Monster for
several reasons. When the stadium was constructed in 1912, its left fence
was right next to the roadway. They had straightened the fence to create
maximum space within their site. Also, the fence was stacked up to 37
feet and 2 inches to prevent the home-run balls from damaging the cars, ​^4
The loftiness has also balanced the game by blocking batters from hitting
easy home-runs since the fence was very close to the home plate. The
field’s right fence is also in a very unique shape. The pole is placed only
302 feet away from the home plate but the fence extends much further
from the pole. The pole is also known as the Pesky’s pole, and it is the
shortest right field distance in MLB. The right fence used to be further,
but was pulled in to benefit the team’s legendary left-hand power-hitter
Ted Williams (1939-1960, BOS). Unlike the short distances for left and
right field, the center field of the park is not that close as them. The
deepest area in the center field measures 420 feet from the home plate,
which records the second furthest distance after the Oracle Park pulled
its furthest fence from 421 feet to 415 feet in 2019.​^5 ​ This area is often
called “the triangle” or the “No man’s land”. It’s so far back that
outfielders can easily give batters a triple. It’s common to see a loose ball
bounce around back there, getting away from the fielder.