RIGHTFIELDERS

As we grow up in baseball, playing rightfield is not exactly glamorous. As most players bat right handed, it seemed rightfield was where the ball went least so put the least skilled player there. Not too many guys wanted to play rightfield. But as players move up the ranks of higher competition, rightfield becomes a much more challenging position to play. When right handed batters hit the ball to rightfield, a fielder has to be skilled to catch the ball. A ball from a righthanded hitter can slice toward the foul line frequently. Many times the ball is hit hard to the rightfield-centerfield gap on the line which can be challenging to get. We have also seen too many times when a right handed batter bloops a ball over the infield into short rightfield. A pitcher's nightmare! Then in college and above, there are more lefthanded batters and that presents an whole new set of calculations by the rightfielder. I am happy to say that Lutheran High School has had many players who did a great job in rightfield.

2005 BRANDON DAVIS

SOPH