Fence or wall?

[DTF955]

Do you call it an outfield fence or outfield wall?

One of those trivialities that I noticed myself the other day - our bus route has a part where a road turns off at a certain point just past a royal blue barrier (in front of an industrial park.) I told the person driving our route to watch for the turnoff and i said, "It's just after that barrier starts that looks like an outfield fence."

This looks like the perfect place for this one - no other real spot for it, and very trivial :-)

[CanadianKid]

If it has padding then I'd call it a wall but if it's like those you'd find in a park that make those hexagon shapes I'd call it a fence.

[Gashouse6]

Over the fence!!! :D

Over the wall!!! :confused:

[SoxSon]

Over the fence!!! :D

Over the wall!!! :confused:

Commentators very often say a player has gone back to the wall.

[bluezebra]

A fence is found around a ball field in a park, or a youth complex. A wall surrounds a professional ball field.

Bob

[W_Marone]

I call it the wall...almost all of the time....:clapping

[Sliding Billy]

Interesting question. I think for as far back as I can remember, it was "over the fence," but "off the wall," which makes sense, since a fence defines a boundary, and a wall is something objects bounce off. In Fenway, of course, "over the wall" means over the Green Monster only, but I think I recall both "wall" and "fence" used in other expressions for center and right.

[Elvis]

I didn't vote because you didn't give an option for "both".

[RuthMayBond]

If you dig your cleats in & can't reach over top, it's a WALL :laugh Next crisis?

[Mattingly]

When I was a kid, a fence meant something having holes and was made of wire material.

http://www.academyfence.com/images/industrial/chainlink_barbed_wire_big.jpg

A wall may not need to be brick, but it is at least solid. Therefore, I'll say "wall".

[Elvis]

When I was a kid, a fence meant something having holes and was made of wire material.


Like a white picket fence? ;)

Aren't those big bushes that they jump horses over in Europe called fences?

[DTF955]

The option for "both" would be the 3rd, depends on the ballpark.

I think when I was in K.C. last year and we had the rainouts, we talked about everything but this...now I ready for the next rain delay :-)

[Sultan_1895-1948]

He hit a double off the "wall."

He scaled the "wall" to rob a dong.

Wall it is, although fence applies better for certain things too.

[CanadianKid]

I see a wall having padding or made of brick and a fence similar to the picture posted by Mattingly.

[Jose Reyes]

Fence. But it could depend on which ballpark. I say most have "fences," but the green monster in boston is definitely not a fence. The gigantic ones are walls, but the normal-sized ones are fences.

[runningshoes]

I don't care if the things made of concrete; I call it a fence.

[Elvis]

The option for "both" would be the 3rd, depends on the ballpark.


Nope. I use them both interchangebly when talking about the same park - just like I use different terms for home run--blast, shot, homer etc.. It has nothing to do with different park=different term. :hp

[Outta Here]

Wall for me