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==Home run== If a batted ball passes out of the playing field in flight and is fair, it is an automatic [[home run]], entitling the [[batter (baseball)|batter]] and all runners to score without liability to be put out. However, if the fence or other barrier is less than 250 feet from home plate, a ball hit past that fence in flight and fair shall be ruled an automatic double. In the [[United States]], such short fences are very rare even in the lowest-level amateur ballfields. Fields with short fences can be commonplace in some countries where baseball is less popular; often, soccer fields have to be used, resulting in a very short left or right field. The shortest fair fences in [[Major League Baseball]] are both in [[Boston]]'s [[Fenway Park]]; the shortest fence that is nearly perpendicular to the foul line is the [[Green Monster]]. The left foul pole, renamed "Fisk's Pole" in honor of [[Carlton Fisk]]'s famous home run in the [[1975 World Series]], stands 310 feet away from home plate. The right field foul pole, known as [[Pesky's Pole]], is 302 feet down the right field line, although the wall there is nearly parallel to the foul line as it curves back to the distant right field wall at 380 feet. From 1958 through 1961, the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] played home games in [[Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum]], a stadium built for [[track and field]]; without the ability to move any of the permanent stadium structure, the Dodgers configured the field to result in a 251-foot left field foul line distance.
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