Baseball’s Quirkiest Corners Make Life Interesting for Third-Base Coaches

Photo The Pesky Pole at Boston’s Fenway Park. American League East third-base coaches agree that Fenway is the division’s most demanding layout. Credit Matt Slocum/Associated Press When a ball is hit into the left-field corner at Fenway Park and a Red Sox base runner comes barreling around second base thinking about trying to score, it may take him a moment to locate Boston’s third-base coach, Brian Butterfield, who will be either waving him around or putting up a stop sign.

Butterfield will not be in the chalk-outlined coaching box near the bag. Nor will he be out where the infield dirt meets the outfield grass, where some third-base coaches alight to get into the runners’ field of vision…