The center of home plate will be where the two foul poles meet at a right (90 degree) angle
Both of the foul poles are usually a bright yellow, however, a few ballparks have orange foul poles
There is no actual line drawn between 1B and 2B or between 2B and 3B. The chalked lines between home plate and 1B and home plate and 3B are called the foul lines, and they extend all the way to the outfield fence. There are vertical poles where the foul lines touch the outfield fence, and they are called the foul poles. But the foul lines and the foul poles are in fair territory. There is a great book titled "Why Is The Foul Pole Fair?" by Vince Staten. It provides an answer to this question (and a lot of other cool stuff about baseball), though no explanation is given as to why the names have never been changed to "fair line" and "fair pole."
the foul lines come directly to the point on the back of home plate. that is why a ball off the plate is a fair ball
Dodger Stadium in 1962. The error was corrected the following season.
No. The Home Plate Umpire, the Catcher, and the Batters are in foul territory, because they are all positioned behind the foul lines.
A Fair ball is any ball that either 1)lands in fair territory in the outfield (including hitting the wall) 2) hits or bounces over first or third base 3) leaves the park between the foul poles or hitting the foul poles (home run) 4) is first touched by a fielder in fair territory 5)stops moving with being touched in fair territory, and 6) did not hit the batter. Any ball that is not fair, is foul.
Home plate is considered in fair territory. If the ball hits home plate and rolls into foul territory, the ball is foul. If the ball hits home plate and rolls into fair territory, the ball is fair.
No they are different
Yes its a foul ball but keep on running to the next base until the umpire calls it a foul ball!!!!
90 feetsource: I read this in an online article by the Pocono Record (URL below)Yankees are coming home Distance from the plate to the backstop: 52 feet, four inches, which us about 20 feet less than the old Yankee Stadium. Foul poles: 90 feet highwww.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090416/SPORTS/904160338
it is different on every feild
Home plate is foul territory unless the ball rolls in front of the plate and stays fair. If the ball bounces off the plate and strikes the batter; it's a dead ball.