Reply to "Rules question of the day"

JohnF5,000+ posts

Same answer as before - why wait 5 pitches to steal second if he's that fast ;-) In this case, no way it's an eephus pitch - that would have bounced back towards the pitcher.

Considering this from my google search - "How long does it take a 60 mph fastball to reach home plate?"... "Divide the distance from the pitching rubber to home plate by the speed of the fastball in feet per second. On a major league ball field this distance is 60 feet 6 inches, or 60.5 feet. For a pitch traveling 139.33 feet per second, you have 60.5/139.33 = 0.434 seconds."

So the runner went say 80 ft in the same time - running faster than 60 mph... This is yet more proof the test writers never played the sport

Still it'd take me at least 8.3.3d seconds to get that right ;-)

I have a few years of tests saved in text format - we could keep this going all summer if we needed to

4/2/2012:17 PM

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