Professional baseball players can't hit a soft ball thrown by a professional soft ball pitcher, despite being closer and the pitch being slower. She pitches from closer than a normal major leag moun but because she pitches so much slower, about load amid, 60 miles per hour,. The transit time of her pitch is actually longer than some of the pitches they're used to facing. So all those hues that they had learned to pick up on that allow them to do somethin otherwise impossible, are gone when they faced her. And consequently, the best hitters in baseball could not even hit a foul ball.