re: Foley Field

Posted by vidtiger23

Member since Feb 2012

9762 posts

Posted on 6/6/26 at 5:28 pm to New Money

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Every team that UGA has played at home has hit on a field with the same dimensions. It's not the field.

I don’t believe anyone has said Georgia isn’t good and it’s just the field? Or maybe I missed that.

Posted by WG_Dawg

Member since Jun 2004

90468 posts

Posted on 6/6/26 at 5:34 pm to vidtiger23

quote:
Or maybe I missed that.

You did. It's been said all year. Not that UGA isn't good necessarily, but that were only as good as we are because we play in basically a 10U rec league park. Somehow on every field we play on we are consistently better than the other team though playing with the same restrictions. Weird.

Posted by vidtiger23

Member since Feb 2012

9762 posts

Posted on 6/6/26 at 5:41 pm to WG_Dawg

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You did. It's been said all year. Not that UGA isn't good necessarily, but that were only as good as we are because we play in basically a 10U rec league park.

I think people say that to say the numbers that came out are inflated due to the home ballpark, which I think is a very correct statement. It doesn’t mean that they aren’t good or not the best in the SEC or anything like that. We saw what they can do away from Foley as well. It’s also just a misconception that Georgia always plays better home vs away due to recency bias where that was the case some years.

This post was edited on 6/6/26 at 6:11 pm

Posted by captdalton

Member since Feb 2021

24324 posts

Posted on 6/6/26 at 5:46 pm to New Money

Nobody cared about the size of Foley Field until Georgia became good.

Back when Georgia wasn’t hitting that many home runs no one was talking about Foley Field’s dimensions.

Posted by LSUtigerNVegas9

Member since Nov 2025

163 posts

Posted on 6/6/26 at 6:03 pm to DawgsLife

The smaller ballpark does play into it. LSU had to learn how to play at Charles Schwab Field. It’s more of a mentality thing. When games are closer UGA could have the mentality to try and go yard to give themselves momentum and a lead. That doesn’t really work as well as it does in almost ANY SEC park. That’s another reason CWS experience plays a big part of things once the teams get to Omaha.

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Posted by Diamondawg

Mississippi

Member since Oct 2006

38641 posts

Posted on 6/6/26 at 6:13 pm to WG_Dawg

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You'd think we'd be better though with a pitching guru as HC.

Guru at ruining arms. He coaches increased velocity and gets it. But, not all arms are injured, just some.

Posted by lewis and herschel

Member since Nov 2009

16857 posts

Posted on 6/6/26 at 6:21 pm to LSUtigerNVegas9

Again, Foley is space limited in Right Field,315, by a Hill..... It's as big or bigger than most ball parks otherwise....

How it stacks up
Park
LF
LCF
CF
RCF
RF
Takeaway
Georgia — Foley Field
350
370
404
365
314
Deep left/center, short RF
LSU — Alex Box
330
365
405
365
330
Big, balanced, deep center
Arkansas — Baum-Walker
320
375
400
365
320
Fair, college-standard shape
Miss. State — Dudy Noble
330
376
390
374
305
Very short RF porch
Ole Miss — Swayze
330
365
390
365
330
More balanced/hitter friendly
Tennessee — Lindsey Nelson
320
385
390
365
320
Short lines, deeper LC gap
Vanderbilt — Hawkins
310
375
400
375
330
Short LF, deep alleys
Omaha — Charles Schwab Field
335
375
408
375
335
Big CWS park

Posted by DawgsLife

Ellijay, Ga.

Member since Jun 2013

62229 posts

Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:14 am to LSUtigerNVegas9

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When games are closer UGA could have the mentality to try and go yard to give themselves momentum and a lead.

Wait. Are you saying other teams are no aware of the ballpark dimensions? That said, we have showed over and over and over again that our left field fence is a full 20 feet further than Alex Box, and out rightfield fence is 16 feet shorter. We have 7 players with 10 or more homeruns and 5 of those are right handed hitters.

LSU fans are fixated on our rightfield fence while your own leftfield fence is a full 20 feet shorter than our leftfield fence.

Posted by goat

Louisiana

Member since May 2004

4277 posts

Posted on 6/7/26 at 6:24 am to New Money

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Every team that UGA has played at home has hit on a field with the same dimensions. It's not the field.

I have watched a little of UGA this year - have seen plenty of hr hit out of that park - where it didn’t make a diff if the wall was in the next parish - they were gone. How many hr did uga hit on road? I’m willing to bet if you take out midweek home games and do an even comparison - prob gonna show enough to dilute this small park bit.

Awe hell- yall know the drill- we got to say that shite to try and bring yall down! Small park, steroids, rolled - juiced bats- only explanation!!!