Pekin High School’s Baseball Field Is Shaped So Oddly It’s Causing Outright Chaos

This is definitely one of the weirdest baseball fields you’ll ever see.

Pekin is a town in central Illinois with a population of just above 30,000 located around 175 miles from Chicago. Pekin High School has an enrollment of just below 2,000.

Well, the school’s baseball team (known as the Dragons and currently 4-4 on the 2023 campaign) has incredible home-field advantage because opponents don’t know how to handle a massive hill in right field.

You read that correctly. On the right side of Pekin’s baseball field, they have a giant hill, and when a ball is hit in that particular direction, the outfielder must know how to react to both the hill and the incoming ball. With Pekin, they hold their practices on that field each and every day, so they know how to manage the circumstances.

And as for their opponents? Well … let’s just say they end up going face-first into the grass.

Like this weekend, for example:

The Pekin Baseball Hill claims another victim! That steep right field vertical climb is one of the odder prep ball diamond features. Tremont used to have a football light pole in the baseball outfield. pic.twitter.com/Zkpj3PGcM1

— Jim Mattson (@hoijim) April 6, 2023

Man, this is true home-field advantage.

Imagine being an opponent having to deal with this, knowing that you have to adjust to a giant hill in the outfield. I’d be so mad if I was the right fielder. Like, how is this baseball? (RELATED: New York Mets’ Luis Guillorme And Tomás Nido Pull Off Unbelievable Hits (If You Can Even Call Them That)

But if you’re Pekin, you have to be loving this. It’s just the ultimate advantage, man.