Even Walls Fall Down

See what happens when you don't built an insipidly high left field wall? You might see more than one home run per homestand. Matt Wieters hit a ball that would have been caught at the track by most Met leftfielders had it been struck at Citi Field. At worst it might have gone for two bases. Probably it wouldn't have carried even close to the sixteen-foot-high fence. I'm thinking it falls in front of most Met left fielders for a bloop double. But it doesn't work that way at Camden Yards, America's most beautiful ballpark, where — hush, hush — fly balls carry. The Baltimore rookie Wieters hit one Wednesday night that carried, as Tim Redding grumbled later, a full six inches beyond the left field wall. With a better jump and/or leap Fernando Martinez might have caught it, but I'm pretty sure the same has been said about Ron Swoboda going after Don Buford's leadoff shot in the same city forty years ago. We lost Game One in '69, we lost game two last ni...