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- 'He's a big deal': Crawford swats clutch HR
- The Crawford Boxes decided a crucial game and that’s dumb
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Every single one of these dots in the right field corner was a right-handed fastball between 94 and 98 mph. When McCormick hits the ball, he hits the ball hard — his .407 career expected wOBA on contact (.393 in 2022) is well-above league average — and critically, when he hits it in the air, it’s almost always to the opposite field. Expect Aaron Judge to get plenty of work in the field when he’s at the plate. One of the beautiful things about baseball is that sometimes, the difference between a run and an out is simply the field you’re playing on.
Exterior walls were constructed of granite, limestone, and terracotta, while the interior used an extensive amount of marble. At the time, Houston, with 17 railways, was considered the main railroad hub of the Southern United States. This is also evident by the Seal of Houston, which prominently features a locomotive.
'He's a big deal': Crawford swats clutch HR
With playoff implications on the line, this thriller deserved to be decided by the players. Crawford Bock is a Houston-Astros-themed beer, made for Karbach Brewing Co. in close collaboration with the sportsball team itself. If you live outside of Texas, Karbach Brewing Co. is Texas' largest craft brewery.
Riley Greene only hit two balls all season farther than this one, but such is one of the many misfortunes of playing for the Detroit Tigers. Crawford provided the lone run for the Giants on a solo shot to right-center field to give them an early 1-0 lead. Unfortunately, the team mustered up only three hits on the night as Yu Darvish and the Padres' bullpen were nearly untouchable. Crawford has started out the year a bit slow with just two hits in his first 19 plate appearances, but perhaps the hard contact he made Tuesday will ignite his bat. This is actually the most memorable home run on the list because it was a walk-off home run for Keston Hiura off Craig Kimbrel on July 27. Cubs fans probably figure it's fitting that Kimbrel appears here.
The Crawford Boxes decided a crucial game and that’s dumb
The Astros echoed the Astrodomain location sentiment because they believed construction time would be shorter. Crawford has acknowledged that he’s trying to savor every moment this year, as he’s entering the final guaranteed year of his contract with the Giants, the team he’s rooted for since he was a kid. The point of all this isn’t that the Astros are gaining any kind of unfair advantage, since both teams can benefit from cheap dingers, but rather that I disagree with the general concept of letting the stadium play such a big role in the results of the game. The A’s lost on Wednesday primarily because they didn’t make enough good plays for the first eight-plus innings, but they may still have snatched the victory if they’d been in absolutely any other park in the league.
While your odds of catching a home run in these sections are smaller, they’re sure to be more sweet because these bombs are sure to be some of the biggest of the season. Unfortunately, due to the limited seating in left field, a lot of homers bounce back onto the field. However, the train and hearing that horn blast more than make up for it. I won’t go down the rabbit hole but I chose to focus on an unlikely decision they made in 1975.
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Watch the video closely, and note how twisted Devers' feet end up at the end of the swing. Under the Minute Maid Park ground rules, both Tal's Hill and the flagpole were considered in play. If a ball hit the flagpole on the hill and stayed in the field of play, it was in play. The Hill was criticized numerous times owing to the incline having the potential to cause injury to fielders unused to it. However, there was never an injury to any player in relation to Tal's Hill.
It was at this time where the Union Station location was proposed by Lay. Upon an agreement between all of the leadership entities, the idea of a retractable roof stadium was confirmed for the new ballpark. A November referendum was planned for Harris County residents to approve the deal. Opposing players regularly mock the Crawford arcade, calling it a joke, an embarrassment and an insult to legitimate big-league baseball, particularly considering the way balls fly out of Enron even to the deepest parts of the lot. However, since the boxes are only 315 feet from home plate they are easily reachable for batters to hit home runs.
With this move, the building became only office space for the HB&T as well as the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Actually, of all the possibilities tossed about regarding a solution to the Crawford mistake, turning fans into human ground-rule doubles might not be so crazy, or at least not as crazy as broken-bat home runs. We can only assume the next move would be chalking foul territory with a blue line and grooming the infield with a Zamboni. We've even seen a broken-bat looper make it into the seats, which is akin to a PGA pro using a putter to ace No. 17 at the TPC. Of course, those who laugh at the Enron porch don't cash the checks from 763 seats worth of prime ticket revenue. Nor do they have a thing for choo-choo trains, or feel that public acknowledgment of the arcade-like phenomenon would tarnish the luster on the still-new stadium's shine.
Landry's, a restaurant group, owns the naming rights to the Crawford Boxes and runs various promotions for its restaurants there. Minute Maid Park's locomotive is visible from the exterior of the ballpark. The nationally syndicated TV talk show Rachael Ray held a mass wedding at the park following Hurricane Ike for 40 couples who were unable to get married after a company they paid to hold the weddings went bankrupt.
No doubt Hiura hit it hard (106.9 mph exit velocity), but based on the initial flight path, it looked like a line drive to second base or maybe one of those screamers that goes right to the right fielder. In 2017, the park and the entire city suffered from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey, which flooded many parts of the city with several feet of rain over four days. The Astros reported that despite water entering into the service levels of the stadium, Minute Maid Park remained in "good condition" when the storm cleared out. The lingering effects of Harvey forced the Astros to move their series against the Texas Rangers to Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.
In contrast to the ease of hitting a home run to the Crawford Boxes, it is quite difficult to hit a ball out in center field, as the dead-center wall ... The home-plate-to-fence measurement there is only 315 feet , one of the shortest in Major League Baseball. A 19-foot wall in front of the elevated boxes houses the hand-operated out-of-town scoreboard, displaying the day's other games. In 2006, the Chick-fil-A cows were unveiled on the foul poles, saying EAT MOR FOWL, and the cows have Astros caps on.
It features a classic gasoline pump that displays the total number of Astros home runs hit since the park opened. Crawford Boxes are a collection of five sections in left field that give an elevated outfield view to the field. These seats are among the most recognizable in all of baseball due to its design and location with dozens of home run balls flying into these sections each season. This one is a little bit cheap, because Kyle Tucker hits the ball hard and over the wall pretty much anywhere.
The last pitcher to bat at an MLB game in Houston was Astros pitcher Bud Norris until May 11, 2021, when Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels started on the mound and batted second in the lineup. On September 30, 2007, in Craig Biggio's last game of his career, Minute Maid Park hit the highest attendance in its 8-year history by selling 43,823 tickets, 107% of its capacity. Later that year, Houston's NFL franchise and joint-tenant of the Astrodome, the Houston Oilers, announced they were leaving to Nashville, Tennessee in order to have a new stadium built for the team there.
Given the differences in weather, and coastal/inland climates, and elevation, etc., even 30 parks with identical dimensions would still play differently, so complete uniformity doesn’t need to be a goal. But I think some parks take it too far, with other examples including the Green Monster in Fenway and the short RF porch at Yankee Stadium. The Crawford Boxes significantly change the game, and personally I think that’s dumb.
Two days later, Jeff Keppinger hit the left field pole to help the Astros win, 5–0, against the Brewers. While Crosley Field's infamous left field terrace, which was half as steep (only 15°) as Tal's Hill (30°), was a natural feature of the site on which the park was located, Tal's Hill was purely decorative. On June 4, 2015, the Astros announced that they would be removing Tal's Hill as part of a $15 million renovation for the 2016 season. The center field fence was to be moved in from 436 feet to 409 feet from home plate, but the center field renovations were delayed until after the 2016 season, due at least in part to the 2015 playoffs cutting into planned construction time. The "Phillips 66 Home Run Porch" is located in left-center field over the field of play.
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