left field
Example Sentences
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A dropped fly ball on the warning track in left field by Teoscar Hernández spelled trouble for Yamamoto, scoring a run and allowing Jo Adell to reach second base with nobody out.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026
Manager Dave Roberts said Tucker will play right field, with Teoscar Hernández sliding back to left field, the position he held down in his first season with the team in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2026
But Chalamet's final pick of someone who demonstrated British greatness comes totally out of left field.
From BBC • Dec. 16, 2025
In the last five years alone, a pandemic, an inflation spike and a trade war all appeared out of left field to confound expectations.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 9, 2025
And her mother had said, “Ha! Your father is so far off in left field that he wouldn’t recognize love if it stood up in his soup and sang.”
From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
