Tunnel or Cage

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Oct 3, 2009
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I hope this does not spark a debate worthy of does a riseball rise or wearing a mask but I will ask anyway. In your area is it called a cage or tunnel? Where I am from they are called cages and the tunnel thing honestly threw me when I first came to this site. I know this one is deep.
 
Apr 25, 2014
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We have batting cages and tunnels. I believe the difference is batting cages are surrounded buy a chain link fense. And our tunnels are surrounded by a net
 
Jan 24, 2009
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A batting cage is commonly referred to as a batting cage in my neck of the woods.

If someone refers to a 'tunnel' in a bb/sb context, then I assume they mean something like this:
 

WARRIORMIKE

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Oct 5, 2009
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At the Jewel in San Diego
Being that we sell everything including the bubba cage pictured above . 80 pecten of people I talk to across country refer to them as cages. Regardless of where there installed. Now the first time I heRd someone wanted to buy a turtle. That threw me off a bit. Lol
 
Jan 24, 2009
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I would say cage on that one.

Lol, the photo's name actually says cage also. This is closer to a backstop than a cage to me as the batter is hitting into an open field. I could live with "hood" or even "tunnel" if it is the thing pictured. I just can't think of anything else I would refer to as a 'tunnel' in bb/sb except for the corridor where players enter/exit a stadium.
 
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Oct 11, 2010
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Chicago, IL
Some of the baseball facilities have a baseball mound in the cage, really just used for pitching not hitting.

Maybe that is a good example for the use of tunnel.
 
Jul 23, 2014
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Midwest
Here in Nebraska we call them cages. A tunnel is something the Cornhuskers football team walks out of before the game.
 
Jan 24, 2009
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"Lane" lol. I think I'll have a pop while I google what that fellar meant by 'drinking soda.' Was he nuts?
 
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