left field
Example Sentences
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Milwaukee’s Joey Ortiz hit the first one 373 feet to left field in the second inning, and Wilson Contreras hit the other 389 feet to left-center in the fourth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The warning is not coming out of left field.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
“There are legitimate water quality threats that we need to attack and rectify in a regulatory manner. And then there are things that are out in the left field that just distract people,” Donley said.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
The clear winner, out of left field, was Brazilian jiu-jitsu: a relatively new art accepted so rapidly that we already knew the basics from our Army combatives course.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2026
Even if it was only a hit to left field.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
