English
Noun
left field
- baseball the part of a baseball field which is beyond the infield and to your left if you stand on home plate and face the pitcher
- baseball The defensive position in the outfield to the left.
- idiom an unexpected, bizarre, or unwatched source (especially in the phrases out of left field and from left field)
#:Some of her comments really came from left field. I have no idea what she was thinking.
Quotations
baseball
2004: The double, by pinch-hitter Ruben Sierra, curved sharply toward foul ground in deep left field but then changed its mind and hit the line insteadâ��a big hit, and a smile at last from the great and enigmatically difficult game. — The New Yorker, 10 May 2004
figurative
2004: There is no serendipity without a flash of insight from left field, an oblique eureka effect. — London Review of Books, 23 Sep 2004
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