Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 21, 2008
User Issues

The Houston Astros fixed a problem with the yellow home run line in the outfield that caused Soto's automatic home run to be inside the park. This is something software engineers go through all the time. You design a user interface, and when people actually exercise it, you find it's not a friendly as you like. This seemed to be a pretty easy fix.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:35 AM | Stadiums | TrackBack (0)
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The ball also seemed to be about 20ft to the right of the yellow line

Posted by: Bandit at May 21, 2008 01:21 PM

They had a similar like problem the first year of MMP, I think. But they had to add a yellow line indicating where a home run was on the LF wall.

Posted by: John Royal at May 21, 2008 04:13 PM

The line is ridiculous. The Astros got a phantom homer in the 2005 World Series against the White Sox when the umpires couldn't make out the vagaries of the same line. If there has to be a line, it should be accompanied by some foul pole-like structure that causes the ball to bounce differently (or not at all) if it hits on the home run side.

Posted by: Tor at May 21, 2008 10:36 PM
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