#ICYMI - Baseball - Home Run Physics
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The Aerodynamics of a Home Run
The batter's job is to get the bat in the right place at the right time, at the right location on the on the bat itself with a high bat speed. How hard that ball will be hit along with the launch angle is what determines how far that ball will go and therefore whether it's a home run or not. Jeff Pearlman: It might take something like four tenths of a second from release until the ball gets the whole plate. The swing itself takes something like point one five seconds for an angel hitter.
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