{"id":12178,"date":"2012-08-06T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12178"},"modified":"2012-08-06T03:00:18","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T08:00:18","slug":"a-different-pitch-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12178","title":{"rendered":"A Different Pitch Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/05\/sports\/baseball\/pitch-by-yankees-freddy-garcia-tests-physics-experts.html?_r=1\">Challenging Batters and Physics Experts Alike<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The conflict was this: A split-finger is usually gripped to reduce backspin on the ball because backspin prevents the ball from dropping. The typical Magnus effect on the ball will tilt it slightly in toward a hitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the particular pitch that was unusual broke away from a right-handed hitter,\u201d Nathan said.<\/p>\n<p>Stumped, Nathan sent the video to the physicist Rod Cross at the University of Sydney in Australia. Cross performed several tests \u2014 often using polystyrene balls for better movement \u2014 and came up with what he views as a plausible theory. He published his findings in an article in the American Journal of Physics in January.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenging Batters and Physics Experts Alike The conflict was this: A split-finger is usually gripped to reduce backspin on the ball because backspin prevents the ball from dropping. The typical Magnus effect on the ball will tilt it slightly in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12178\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}