1. The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the left third of the outfield (looking from home plate)
   "The slugger hit a towering home run into leftfield";
   - left field
    
2. The piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left
   "The batter hit a long fly ball to leftfield";
   - left field, left

1. Unexpected, unconventional, or odd
   "Her left-field approach to problem-solving yielded surprising results"

Type of: parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, position, tract

Part of: baseball team, outfield

Encyclopedia: Leftfield