FSN Sport Science - Episode 7 - Myths - Jennie Finch

lo-to hi trod-rectory pssh what about submarine pitchers!

and jenny finch is a better pitcher then this no name "flamethrower" jorgenson shes closer and the man didnt get a softball bat this is pretty flawed but overall jenny is the bettter professional pitcher, id like to see randy jonhson or barry zito and a real batter like pujols re-do this whole experiment

of course she breaks it shes 15' closer and the ball has twice the mass to hit with

relax... its a chick sport, they just wanna make the show interesting and get a wider variety of viewers

ok so they bring in a baseball hitter and let him face a girl. how about they bring in a softball hitter and let her face the 95 mph fastball. the girl would shit herself. this is kind of offending to a pitcher such as myself.

Of course its harder for a BASEBALL player to hit a softball pitch just like its harder for a SOFTBALL player to hit a baseball pitch. And the reason the glass or whatever it was broke was becasue she didn't hit the center of the plate like the baseball pitcher but the one of the corners, its that simple. Its just that the dude insnt used to a underhand pitch since they dont get many or any of them in baseball.

Does someone want to explain to me why the force of the ball coming in has anything to with how hard it is to hit? If you drove a semi-truck into the force plate it would hit with a harder force than either a baseball or softball, but it certainly would not be harder to make contact with. The determining factors should be the amount of time the hitter has to react, the amount of movement the ball makes from a horizontal plane, and the size of the ball.

idk why they used force instead of speed but basiclly its to calculate reaction time, i wish they wouldve gave the batter a softball bat hahaha