Weird Dugout Alignment Question

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in some ballparks the home dugout is on the left field side, whereas in others the home dugout is on the right field side. Anybody know any reason for the variation?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i've heard that the home team generally takes the first base side because when a runner is coming home the entire dugout can tell him to slide/run through home. but of course the on-deck batter should be doing this anyway. as for the variation, i have no idea.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 27 May 2004 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, I've never seen any sort of explanation for this.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 27 May 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

nobody knows?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i think you should make a list of which parks have home dugouts along third and which ones have them along first.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

tangentially related question:
is home plate still always the western-most point of the diamond?
even in dome, or semi-dome stadiums?

― the leglo (the leglo), Friday, 28 May 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i think you should make a list of which parks have home dugouts along third and which ones have them along first.

home dugouts along third that I know of:

Comiskey
Wrigley

home dugouts along first that I know of:

Yankee
new Phillies stadium

that's all the places I've been in the past 5 years, d00d.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

ProPlayer has the home dugout on the 1B line if I recall. I think I remember Heeee sliding toward the home dugout during his inside-the-park HR the other day.

― mattbot (mattbot), Friday, 28 May 2004 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

And Fenway's is on the 1B side too, right? Johnny Damon almost hit Bellhorn with a foul ball on ESPN the other night.

― mattbot (mattbot), Friday, 28 May 2004 20:02 (twenty-two years ago)

~~SBC Park~~ Mays Field is on the 3b side.

― Leee's a Simpson (Leee), Friday, 28 May 2004 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)

is it a Mississippi River thing?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a "whichever dugout is closer to the players' parking lot" deal.

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 28 May 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

broheems you just opened up my third eye

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 29 May 2004 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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