TORONTO – There wasn’t the traditional noise of ball hitting metal to know that it was a home run. In the Rogers Centre, they don’t use foul poles. They use yellow nets in the dimensions of typical, suspended from field to ceiling with cables, to simulate the boundaries between fair and foul instead.
So when Kyle Seager’s rocket to right field flirted with the boundaries, there was no distinct sound that usually helps determine the outcome. Instead, it wasn’t until the ball immediately stopped flying and fell to the ground that you knew it was homer not just a long strike.