warning track
noun
: a usually dirt or cinder strip around the outside edge of a baseball outfield to warn a fielder when running to make a catch that the fence is near
called also warning path
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The Dodgers put runners at second and third in the eighth when Alex Freeland flew out to the warning track in center field to strand them.
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Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026
Soriano left after Manny Machado singled and Xander Bogaerts walked, but Chase Silseth got Gavin Sheets to fly out to the warning track in right.
—CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
Soriano left after Manny Machado singled and Xander Bogaerts walked, but Chase Silseth got Gavin Sheets to fly out to the warning track in right.
—ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
Friday night, Steer hit two balls to the outfield that would’ve found the stands in the later months of the season at Great American Ball Park, only to be caught on the warning track.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2026
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Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 19 Apr. 2026
Soriano left after Manny Machado singled and Xander Bogaerts walked, but Chase Silseth got Gavin Sheets to fly out to the warning track in right.
—CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
Soriano left after Manny Machado singled and Xander Bogaerts walked, but Chase Silseth got Gavin Sheets to fly out to the warning track in right.
—ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
Friday night, Steer hit two balls to the outfield that would’ve found the stands in the later months of the season at Great American Ball Park, only to be caught on the warning track.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2026
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“Warning track.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/warning%20track. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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