Toledo — Two blue awnings sit on a rooftop patio 70 feet above the warning track below, just beyond the right-field pole, and behind an upper deck of seats at Fifth Third Field.
This is the place Christin Stewart hit a baseball on a cold Toledo night last month in a game against Durham.
“Pitcher tried to go neck-high with a heater at 100,” Doug Mientkiewicz, the Toledo Mud Hens manager, was saying Tuesday afternoon as he and his team prepped for an evening game against Charlotte.
“And he absolutely incinerated it. The ball looked like a Tic-Tac when it went over the fence.