Dimensions of Japanese Ballyard for Bos/Oak?

barman · Mar 24, 2008

Anyone got that handy? Are they pretty on par with North American MLB parks? Or maybe a few feet tighter due to the generally smaller stature of many Japanese ballplayers?

barman · Mar 24, 2008

Urp...Lazy Barman muscles up and gets the info

R/L 328'
CF 400'

No listing for alleys, but I presume they're 370-5 unless the fence does a jag like some newer American yards.

GreenDoberman · Mar 24, 2008

I assume they are playing in the Tokyo Dome, if not disregard.

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</TD></TR><TR><TH>Location</TH><TD>3, Koraku 1-chome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan</TD></TR><TR><TH>Coordinates</TH><TD>

35°42′20.37″N, 139°45′6.89″E</TD></TR><TR><TH>Opened</TH><TD>March 17, 1988</TD></TR><TR><TH>Owner</TH><TD>Tokyo Dome Corporation</TD></TR><TR><TH>Tenants</TH><TD>Yomiuri Giants (NPB(Central League)) (1988-present) Nippon Ham Fighters(NPB(Pacific League)) (1988-2004)
</TD></TR><TR><TH>Capacity</TH><TD>Officially "55,000" but actaully 42,000 + standing room of about 3,000</TD></TR><TR><TH>Field dimensions</TH><TD>Facility Capacity Area<SUP class=reference id=cite_ref-0>[1]</SUP> Site: 112,456 sq m (1.21 x 106 sq ft)
Building: 46,755 sq m (503,267 sq ft)
Field: 13,000 sq m (139,931 sq ft)
Right, Left: 100 m (328.1 ft)
Center: 122 m (400.3 ft)
Capacity: 1,240,000 cubic m (4.378x107 cubic ft)
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WildmanTokyo · Mar 24, 2008

Alleys are only 360.9 ft. No japanese ball parks have crazy jags at the fence. Tokyo Dome is one of the very home run prone ball parks because of the size and dry air. In the exhibition games against japanese teams, Big Papi and JD Drew easily hit homers to left-center. No way they could have made them homers in the Fenway Park.