Posted by bad_luck on 3/10/2014 11:19:00 PM (view original):
Posted by MikeT23 on 3/10/2014 8:49:00 PM (view original):
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Posted by MikeT23 on 3/10/2014 4:13:00 PM (view original):
So I'm playing 3B Saturday. Big dude hits a rocket in my direction. Takes a bad hop and drills me, not in the FACE, but in the chest. Left a bruise the size of a fist. Know what I didn't look like? This:
Moral of the story: Even 51 y/o weekend warriors can avoid getting hit in the face by a bad hop.
Softball or baseball?
I play third in both and baseball 3rd base is much, much more difficult.
Softball but are you sure that baseball is much, much more difficult?
I'd have to look it up but I think baseballs exit speed is somewhere around 100 MPH at the BL level. I think softballs can exceed 80 MPH. Standing 30+ feet closer to the batter seems to give one pretty much the same time to react.
I'm sure. My softball team plays in the highest level offered. My baseball team plays at the lowest level in my age group.
Playing defense in baseball, especially infield, is much harder. I think it's due to the smaller ball moving faster over a larger playing area.
Seems a bit anecdotal, doesn't it?
Seriously, it's largely a math question. 80-100 MPH traveling 65 feet vs. 100-120 MPH traveling 95 feet. Of course, there's more to it(mostly how much/quickly a ball slows after leaving the bat) but we are talking about a fraction of a second.
But, if we're just using anecdotal evidence, I think 3B in baseball is easier. The ball is on top of you immediately in both but, in baseball, you have an extra 30-40 feet to "see" the ball. I don't think the speed/size of the ball makes up for that.