Originally Posted by doogald

Yes, but it also gets deeper faster than the left field wall, which remains quite short all the way to left-center field. I still think that closing out the park from Landsdowne Street (the sidewalk of which is literally just a few feet from the in-play side of the wall - as the scoreboard is inside the wall there obviously is a cavity within the wall)) was the major reason for the wall. Right field has a good hundred feet plus of grandstand behind it.