The Science Of Hitting A Major League Fastball

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Hitters only have 125 milliseconds to gauge the average Major League fastball – less than the blink of an eye. Which begs the question: how is it humanly possible?

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My friend joked about how baseball is a sissy's game and he said its just glorified golf. I brought him to my local batting cage that shoots 90mph fastballs. He barely foul tipped 2 out of over 50 pitches. He no longer roasts baseball.

ephedra

Yeah I hate how people say baseball is the easy sport but I'd like to see anyway that says that try to hit a 95mph fastball

payton

Hitting a home run is the hardest things in professional sports they say...really easy to believe after this video.

um

This is why they say it's the hardest thing to do in all of sports. But the math is overlooked

pamsimonson

I am from the UK and remember thinking as a kid Baseball would be easy as I was pretty good at Cricket and Rounders. When I went to work at a Summer Camp when I was 19, I had to play in a game and was pretty cocky telling everyone I was going to hit multiple home runs as I was good at cricket.

Little did I know but the boy pitching to me was a rated player at his high school. As soon as the first ball went past me, I was like, wtf is this. In the end I was able to just about get the ball in play but was run out easily. E

Anyway, ever since that day, when someone says to me what is the most difficult thing to do consistently in sport, I say it's hit a home run.

mrb

I cannot even a hit ball standing atop a T.

SamonMarquis

And the ones that do it three out of 10 times in a year get those $300 million contracts

jonm

Add on top of all that spin which if strong enough can make the ball have vertical or godforbid horizontal movement like that witchcraft Chris Sale throws

arsenal-slr

Hitting s baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports

rycephillips

According to MLB scouts, Chapman's fastball has been clocked as high as 105 mph (169 km/h)

drod

Its all about the feet and mental aspect of the game

beefymeat

It works like that in the field too. It's like you know where the ball is gonna be hit just by the stance of the batter. And if he swimgs and misses on a pitch thats more information about where the ball is going if he connects.

mohnjarx