That should have read: "later the swing started, the more likely is a miss"
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's a matter of which way the batter hits, Chris. Most batters are
> standing right of the plate from the pitcher's POV, and so the swing of the
> bat tends to drive the ball anywhere from straight out (towards the
> pitcher) to the left (towards third base), depending on how early the
> batter began swinging, and therefore how far into the swing's arc the bat
> was before connecting with the ball. Couple that with the very flat, fast
> trajectory of a line drive and pitchers and third basemen are likely
> (inadvertent) targets. To get the ball to fly towards first base would have
> required the batter to swing late in the first place, and the later the
> swing started to more likely is a miss.
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:46 PM, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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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