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Interesting phrases part 13

You're in the right ballpark. Wouldn't that only matter if you're wanting to see a sports event?
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Entertainment, other gatherings.

But the tendency to borrow ideas / words / jargon from sports results in this.

I think the path is less linear, because I bet THAT usage comes from notion of

"a ballpark estimate"

as an equivalent to

"an approximation".

How does THAT pop out of a "ballpark"? lol