May 31, 2011
Baseball bat lands on its end after a player makes a hit and heads for first
Martin Prado in July of 2007…
(via Woosk)
Should this make us curious what was inside his bat?
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May 31, 2011
Martin Prado in July of 2007…
(via Woosk)
Should this make us curious what was inside his bat?
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Yeah. No way that was natural. If it had been tossed and then happened to land exactly upright and just buried a bit in the mud or something then I’d say fluke. But that wasn’t a fluke, it couldn’t have been. It originally landed at about 50 degrees to the ground and bounced UP. Even if there were some sort of inertia that caused it to bounce up, it would have continued in that direction until it fell over the other way. Something was weighted on the inside enough to counteract the initial inertia of the bat. That can’t happen with a normally weighted bat.
Also, the center of gravity is way, way off for a normal bat. Not possible. Either it’s faked (doubtful) or the bat has been messed with (much more probable).
awesome. except that’s not Rafael Furcal, who’s been with the Dodgers since 2006. It’s Martin Prado.
Thanks! I fixed it.
It’s a freak thing, I’ll admit…but it is possible with a regular bat.
One in ten million maybe, but it is possible. It happened!