New baseball stadium “Escon Field Hokkaido” opened to the press on the 6th = Kitahiroshima City, Hokkaido
The foul zone of the new baseball stadium “Escon Field Hokkaido” of professional baseball Nippon Ham is narrower than the regulation, and coordination is progressing between the team and Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) in the direction of not repairing it, officials said on the 7th. I found out in the story. Instead, the team will establish a fund to promote baseball.
Official baseball rules require a distance of 60 feet (about 18 meters) from the home base to the back net, but the new stadium is about 3 meters shorter. Last fall, the Nippon-Ham baseball team apologized for “insufficient confirmation and reporting,” and was allowed to use it on the condition that it would be repaired to comply with the rules after the end of this season.
The team will have its first open game at the new stadium on the 14th of this month, and the opening game will be held on the 30th.
