Game is being played in Mexico City
We in the baseball world have grown accustomed to talking about the thin air of Coors Field and, in trickling down to minor-league teams, we're very aware that the ball tends to fly in higher-elevation ballparks.
Mexico City is roughly 7,200 feet above sea level. Denver is just about a mile high (hence the moniker), so this ballpark is nearly 2,000 feet higher than Coors.
Back in 2017, The Ringer spoke with baseball physics experts on playing in Mexico City and one part gave us this:
Just for comparison's sake, Coors Field is 347 feet down the left-field line, 390 in the left-field power alley, 415 to center, 375 to the right-field power alley and 350 down the right-field line (with a tall wall in right field as well). Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú is 325 down both lines and 400 to center.
In the one exhibition game played there by an MLB team, the Padres scored 11 runs.
We in the baseball world have grown accustomed to talking about the thin air of Coors Field and, in trickling down to minor-league teams, we're very aware that the ball tends to fly in higher-elevation ballparks.
Mexico City is roughly 7,200 feet above sea level. Denver is just about a mile high (hence the moniker), so this ballpark is nearly 2,000 feet higher than Coors.
Back in 2017, The Ringer spoke with baseball physics experts on playing in Mexico City and one part gave us this:
Coors has attempted to allow for this by having deep outfield dimensions, creating a spacious outfield, and a lot of the big offense there comes from an elevated (no pun intended!) average on balls in play.
Just for comparison's sake, Coors Field is 347 feet down the left-field line, 390 in the left-field power alley, 415 to center, 375 to the right-field power alley and 350 down the right-field line (with a tall wall in right field as well). Estadio Alfredo Harp Helú is 325 down both lines and 400 to center.
In the one exhibition game played there by an MLB team, the Padres scored 11 runs.
