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Chicken wire, homer heaven: Inside quirky London Stadium for Yankees-Red Sox

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London Stadium

LONDON — Our greatest homegrown product appears on the way to England:

The home run.

The center field fence at London Stadium is 385 feet away (117.4 meters on this side of The Pond), which would be the shortest in the majors — though with a 16-foot wall MLB officials insist it will play closer to 402 feet.

Obviously nothing plays to script. Maybe the Yankees and Red Sox will enact pitcher’s duels on Saturday and Sunday. But the first clues about the greater likelihood were revealed with Yankees batting practice Friday.