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- That idea really came out of left field.
- Left field?† (source)
- The desperate look in his eyes when he says please prompts a surprisingly sympathetic reaction from me, way out of left field.† (source)
- Your father is so far off in left field that he wouldn't recognize love if it stood up in his soup and sang."† (source)
- What left field had that come out of?† (source)
- Edward was far out in left field, Carlisle stood between the first and second bases, and Alice held the ball, positioned on the spot that must be the pitcher's mound.† (source)
- We stopped a distance from it, maybe the distance from home plate to the left field fence in a regular stadium.† (source)
- And on the third floor, they had this room that ran the whole length of the house, about as big as left field in Yankee Stadium, which I have walked on, by the way.† (source)
- " The general's main response was to yell at him: "Paul, you're totally out in left field!"† (source)
- Left field had the ball now, in position to throw me out.† (source)
- Pafko racing toward the left-field corner.† (source)
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- His call to me came out of left field.† (source)
- The center-field pawn slides toward second base, the bishop second baseman and the pawn shortstop drop back, and the left-field pawn runs up, then cuts toward center.† (source)
- That comes out of left field.† (source)
- I felt the way I had when, in third grade, during the Little League play-offs, I'd watched a pop fly come into my corner of left field too fast and too high—knotted with the need to catch it, sick with the knowledge that I wouldn't.† (source)
- I hit a long one out to left field, and then a fast one to the shortstop, who fielded it neatly and whipped it to first.† (source)
- I play left field.† (source)
- I pitched and played a lead-footed left field for the Birmingham News softball team, and cussed out Greg, one of my own teammates on the softball field, when he fumbled a ground ball.† (source)
- Besides, Panov's from left field-pretend you're a doctor or something, Mo.† (source)
- He was swinging from left field.† (source)
- That was out of left field!† (source)
- So hearing a pleasant tune being hummed felt out of left field.† (source)
- You've always liked him 'cause he put you in left field.† (source)
- From left field," replied Casset, nodding and placing several stock photographs on Holland's desk.† (source)
- Lockman swings into an arc as he races toward second, looking out at left field.† (source)
- The heads of both boys turned to the outfield as Tommy's hit arched into left field.† (source)
- He says, "Bobby Thomson hits into the lower deck of the left-field stands."† (source)
- Like, you know, out of left field.† (source)
- That's with one hand while the other manipulates the quarter, turning it in his fingers like a ball spinning in flight, lowering it as if in slow motion to land in center-left field.† (source)
- He swung at the first pitch, missed, then swung again at the second pitch and sent the ball in a straight line over the head of the third baseman into left field.† (source)
- Farther out in left field they are dropping paper on the Dodger bullpen, on the working figure of Labine and the working figure of Branca and the two men who are catching them and the men sitting under the canted roof that juts from the wall, the gum-chewing men with nothing to say.† (source)
- Jimmy Stokes, the Laredo pitcher, delivered a solid fastball to Baltazar who got a whiff of it, just long enough to send it over the left field wall.† (source)
- They studied news photographs of the left-field stands at the Polo Grounds taken just after the ball went in.† (source)
- Riley opened the bottom of the third by striking out Baltazar, but Pepe was able to connect with one of Riley's pitches, sending the ball flying into left field for a clean double.† (source)
- Saying, "Bobby Thomson hit a line drive into the lower deck of the left-field stands and the place is going crazy."† (source)
- It is human nature to be apprehensive about stepping back into the batter's box after being hit with a baseball, but Fidel merely tightened his grip on the bat: and hit Caldarola's first pitch into left field for a base hit.† (source)
- Pepe, left field.† (source)
- The sound of the ash bat making contact with the ball reaches Cotter Martin in the left-field stands, where he sits in a bony-shouldered hunch.† (source)
- He advertised for amateur film footage of the game and acquired a few minutes of crude action that showed a massive pulsing blur above the left-field wall shot by a man in the bleachers.† (source)
- And it was smudged green near the Spalding trademark, it was still wearing a small green bruise where it had struck a pillar according to the history that came with it—flaked paint from a bolted column in the left-field stands embedded in the surface of the ball.† (source)
- Up on the second level the softball field empty and tar-hot, a heavy sweltry indolence, the dark surface flashing with broken glass, two or three men, he sees them now, standing out near the left-field fence, sort of mortally posed like figures in spaghetti westerns, lean, nameless, unshaved—he didn't think they were acquainted with the language of life expectancy.† (source)
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