I’m gonna test the limits of the subreddit community name. I was watching some baseball on some edibles and I had a thought if it’d be possible to get hit just right by a baseball to take a chunk of a person out. You know like an anime shot.
I assume it’d have to be a massive force that isn’t possible. But maybe it is and no one’s tried because they’re not sadistic?
I don’t think it’s possible from a bat at any force. The ball would unravel and slow from wind before it hits the person and at worst it would just knock them back.
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maybe 4Related XKCD (takes your question to the extreme): https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/
A careful reading of official Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered “hit by pitch”, and would be eligible to advance to first base.
This is gold!
Oh man there is an XKCD for everything!
That’s an excellent analysis - nice find!
Damn, the moment i saw the post i wanted to comment this lol
The Waterjet Channel used to do things like this. They’d launch stuff out of an air cannon at a torso made of ballistics gel on what seemed like a regular basis.
And I daresay The Slow Mo Guys, if not also the OG Mythbusters must have done something similar at some point, not that I can call anything specific to mind right now.
It’s not a “subreddit”.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Old habits die hard :(
EDIT: fixed.
The interesting question is how does the pitcher hit themselves? Throw the ball around the world? Portal gun?
… The batter hits the ball
The question says “pass through a pitcher”. He’s having fun at OP’s mistake.
Yeah I was thinking the batter would hit the ball hard enough to swing back and strike right through the pitcher. Not that the pitcher would hit themselves.
My bad on my unclear question.
What was OP’s mistake?
Unless it has been edited to be more clear, the question (complete with “pass through a pitcher”) makes sense as it is written.
I read it as a pitcher throwing a baseball through a batter (batters are the ones that typically have balls coming at them). Though he now says a batter hitting a ball through a pitcher.
You reading it that way does not mean the OP made a mistake. Pitchers are struck by hit pitches with some degree of regularity.
But what does their response offer?
I assume they’d be sentenced to be blown from a gun, but with one of those auto pitchers from a batting cage
I’m not physicist, but I’d imagine the force required to propel the ball to that speed would also disintegrate the ball itself?
The shape of the ball would exert the force over a relatively large area compared to a bullet, and the ball material is much weaker than metal objects that would blow through people (ie cannonballs).
So the force required would increase due to larger surface area, but then the ball would break apart from said force. The solution is a metal baseball propelled by a railgun.
Now to just find
victimstest subjects to trial it.That might be okay though. The ball doesn’t necessarily have to be intact when it hits the pitcher - if it becomes a stream of smaller particles they still might be energetic enough to do the job.
It definitely stretches the definition of “a baseball”, but, on the otherhand that does make it easier to penetrate with smaller projectile. Hrm…
IMO if it was a baseball when you launched it, you used a baseball.
A railgun feels excessive, we had cannons.
True, but also, go big or go home. We’re already talking about murdering someone by accelerating a baseball through their body. Might as well make their body turn into a fine mist, same jailtime.
asking for a friend
A pitcher of what?
Kool-Aid.
Oh no
ohhhh YYEEAAHHHH
You’ve been watching too many cartoons.
