Hitters for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs will have to work a little harder to match the London slugfests from 2019 because the fences are being pushed back.
The center field wall will be 392 feet from home plate -- 7 feet deeper than four years ago -- as part of changes that Major League Baseball said came about because of some seat restructuring at London Stadium and not because of the high scores in the New York Yankees' two wins over the Boston Red Sox in 2019.