"I don't know how you're hoping that the shift, this whole idea of like, you're ruining the game," he says. "If you're a batter hitting the other fricking direction, we pay you a zillion dollars a year at the other way." He adds: "Don't blame the outfielders for figuring you out. I blame the batter for not being able to stay in wide on the field"
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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