I know little about baseball or softball; is the batter likely to be aiming at
these fielders?
Chris
> On 2 Dec 2014, at 21:41, Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I did some Internet sleuthing. Apparently there have been an increasing
> number of girls (especially) being hit in the face with line drives in
> softball. Many of those hit have been quite seriously injured. At least one
> article said it was because pitcher's mound has been recently relocated to
> be about a yard further from the plate, which means batters have more time
> to react and are getting more (and more powerful) hits.
>
> Regardless, batter's face masks, and, increasingly the open masks like
> those pictured are being recommended for girl's softball for batter, 1st
> base, 3rd base and pitcher. Especially 3rd base and the pitcher, who are
> the most likely to be struck by a line drive.
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