The Official Tennessee @ Arkansas Fayetteville Super Regional Game 1 (Sat. June 7 5PM EDT) (ESPN)

#180
#180
BruisedOrange said:
In Doyle's best last outings, I remember Redmond Walsh commenting that "his slider is really working."

Saturday's relative humidity should be the highest we've played in this year. How does saturated air typically effect pitches?


---asking for a curvy spin doctor [trolling to see which song gets posted in response]
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More break and higher spin rates but offset by batted balls travel farther
 
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#181
#181
cardvolfan said:
From what I can recall, humidity has little effect on a baseball. Temperature would be the biggest variable, as it is for a golf ball. Unless someone else has anything substantially different, I don’t think humidity in itself is a big factor with a baseball.
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Colorado’s humidor would beg to differ…
 
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cardvolfan said:
Humidors were put in Colorado to keep the balls from drying out and being too polished and slick. There is no competitive advantage.
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Just messing with you. Yes, it was to soften them up so they would counter the high elevation and carry less. High humidity is less dense than low humidity so the baseball travels further in high humidity.
 
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taylorvol said:
Just messing with you. Yes, it was to soften them up so they would counter the high elevation and carry less. High humidity is less dense than low humidity so the baseball travels further in high humidity.
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I just wish I could golf every week in Colorado! Go Vols!!
 
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BruisedOrange said:
In Doyle's best last outings, I remember Redmond Walsh commenting that "his slider is really working."

Saturday's relative humidity should be the highest we've played in this year. How does saturated air typically effect pitches?


---asking for a curvy spin doctor [trolling to see which song gets posted in response]
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Humidity decreases air density. Balls flies further/faster. It will have minimal effect from pitching distances.
 
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#197
Thanks for the responses on the humidity question, but most of those addressed the carry on a hit ball, rather than on breaking pitches. FWIW, I found this quote:

"A change in humidity of 20% could result in about an eighth of an inch more movement due to the Magnus effect on a pitched ball."

That unexpected extra 1/8th of an inch could wreak havoc on our consistent, physics-conditioned, micro-calibrated, eagle-eyed umps behind the plate. 🔎📐🎲🤿🦇🦯
 
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