Playing at the historic LA Coliseum, which featured a 60 foot high left field "wall" that was just 200+ feet from homeplate, the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers drew the largest crowd in MLB history with a record 115,300 fans in attendance.  It's the first baseball game to take place at the famous stadium since 1961.  The Sox have certainly had a wild week and a half, playing four games in Japan (including 2 regular season games against the Oakland A's) then returning home to face the Dodgers in 2 more spring training exhibitions, so drawing such a huge crowd to a game at such an awkwardly laid-out field certainly falls right in line with how wacky things have been lately for the home town team.  In the end, it was a most historic event, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Dodgers' digging up their Brooklyn roots and settling down in LA... but come on, a 200 foot left field line seems a little absurd, no?  At the very least, it sheds new light on the term "short porch."