There's an aerodynamic force operating so it'll hook, depending on if it's right-handed batter or left-handed batter, it'll hook left or slice right to borrow terms from golf. So you not only have to run fast enough to be where the ball would have been in a purely ballistic trajectory, you have to then compensate for it with the extra move. And that is why what both of you said, the place hitters are the guys that are so like squirrely and difficult to play against because they don't match up with that. It's like, we know that this guy pulls left, we know, but the place hitter are like, yeah, I'm going
What is exit velocity? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore parabolas, measuring the speed of an object using the Doppler effect, and other physics in baseball.
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