Viva El Birdos · Dec 21, 2022
Busch Stadium: Still a Pitcher’s Park
Good morning, Viva El Birdos!
You get a short article from me today because the issue that I had planned to write about ended up being no issue at all. That doesn’t mean that it’s not a little newsworthy, though.
That issue, as you can tell from the title, is Park Factors.
What are park factors?
Environment can have a huge impact on the way a baseball game is played. Altitude. Temperature. Humidity. Dimensions. Wind conditions. All of those things affect the way that pitches break and spin and balls travel off bats when struck.
Coors Field, a mile-high up in the Rockies, sees a higher rate of offense per struck ball than Petco Park on the coastline of San Diego.