Reply to "Hit the ball in the air."

Where is the Sports Science guy when you need him.

So let me give it a whack - I will define a line drive as a ball hit in the air that is less than 20' high from the ground that reaches the outfield on a HS field which I will define as 150' from Home plate.

For simplicity the infield is then a 150 square from home plate to 150 feet past first and third and then behind 2nd base. This is an extremely generous area. The outfield (again for simplicity is 175+ foot pie shape). I did not do the math in detail but the outfield is at least 50 percent larger than the infield and has half the defenders.

So here is the punch line. More space defended by fewer players. Any well hit ball is much more likely to fall in, get through etc. It is common sense.

5/20/1510:41 AM

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