Thanks, Charlie and Scott. I thought as much.
In cricket the worst place to field, as I understand it, is called Silly Mid
On: not many yards from the batsman and about 45degrees from the bowling line
on the leg side.
Chris
> On 3 Dec 2014, at 19:47, 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:
>
>
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