If the veterans can anchor the younger players, Penn should move back up to its normal position in the Ivy standings. Penn's home games are played on Bower Field, that nicely manicured diamond just behind the east end of Franklin Field and readily visible from the South Street bridge. The field's generous contours are particularly forgiving to pitchers. It's 330 feet down the line in left field and 340 feet down the line to right. The fence in dead center field is a distant 410 feet away, a shot by anyone's measurement, even in the current era of aluminum bats.
Mother nature helps also, as the wind usually blows towards home plate.
Nonetheless, the 1998 Penn team set a school team record of 48 home runs last year. Opponents answered with only 33. The weather had nothing to do with that. There are far worse things to do on a spring day than to catch a Penn baseball game, either at Bower or on the other Ivy fields. And what's twice as good is catching a doubleheader.