Baseball fever has gripped Toronto, with the Blue Jays division-leading winning streak raising hopes of a long-awaited return to the World Series. But the New York Times is looking at Toronto baseball for another reason: The quirks of its third base. The Rogers Centre features a rare playing surface for baseball players – artificial turf. It turns out the once-famous “astroturf” can cause balls to roll to an unexpected stop when they reach the outfield – except when the turf settles and hardens, and then balls skip and move faster. “Sometimes it’s going to be fast, sometimes it’s going to be slow,” Blue Jays third-base coach Luis Rivera tells the Times. “When is that? I won’t tell you, but I know when. I’ll let the other team find out.”
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Source: The New York Times