also: ラッキー・ゾーン
lucky zone (baseball)
A baseball term for the area between the regular outfield wall and a lower home-run fence set up at a shorter distance from home plate. Wasei-eigo; not used in English baseball terminology.
wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from lucky zone
Koshien Stadium once had a lucky zone installed.
The batted ball landed in the lucky zone and became a home run.
That stadium installed a lucky zone in the 1970s.
Many stadiums later removed their lucky zones.