Thanks to the inviting presence of the Crawford Boxes in left field, Detroit's Jose Iglesias and Houston's Alex Bregman both homered on balls with exit velocities below 91 mph and hit probabilities below 10 percent on Wednesday.
But there's also another side to the ballpark, which former Astro J.D. Martinez got a taste of on Thursday, in Houston's 7-6 victory. Even with the removal of Tal's Hill from center field before this season, Minute Maid Park can play big in certain situations.
While Martinez did pound an impressive 430-foot home run in the fourth inning, he had to settle for an unlikely double in the fifth -- on a ball that previously had proven to be a certain homer.