- Jun 8, 2016
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The interesting thing to me was the physical explanation for the different movement directions on the way up and down. You know that from experience (find the fence..) and the explanation makes sense but I just never thought about it before.And it's not just on high popups. How many times have we seen the 8-10ft high chip shot spinner land short of the pitcher's mound and spin back towards foul territory? Then, just as it's about to go foul, the player will pick it up and try to make a play at first, generally too late. With some experience they learn to let it go.
And the ball normally bounces up and at a 45 degree angle away from the fielder.The corner outfield positions are the ones that see the most spin effected trajectories. Opposite field hits with lower trajectories will have more side spin, especially on hits where contact is low in the zone. Right fielders in particular are susceptible to overrunning the slicing line drive from a right handed hitter.
Pattar - not sure if this was part of your inspiration for the post (haven’t read the tweets yet), but Antonelli just had a video on this exact issue.
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