Luckily, the 3 feet of foul was only the length of the 3rd base dugout (probably about 1/3 of the distance to home plate). It literally jutted out right into the field of play. Otherwise, they had approximately 10 feet of foul territory other than the area in front of the 1st base dugout, which was cut down to about 6 or 7 feet. I have a picture of a ball sailing through the air about 3 feet behind the umpires' heads during warmup throws. I honestly have no clue what they were thinking.
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