#ICYMI - Baseball Physics Mashup, with Ron Darling, Geoff Blum, and J.P. Arencibia

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🗓️ 17 May 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel… Home runs, World Series winners, pitching physics, and more – enjoy our baseball mashup featuring hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly, astrophysicists Neil deGrasse Tyson and Charles Liu, physicist Alan Nathan, Holden Kushner, and former MLB greats Ron Darling Jr., Geoff Blum, and J.P. Arencibia. Photo Credit: AlbertoChagas/iStock.

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0:00.0	I'm Gary O'Reilly and I'm Chuck Nice.
0:03.4	This is playing with science.
0:06.2	You're listening to playing with science, a new spin-off of Star Talk.
0:13.6	And I'm your inter-loper host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your resident astrophysicist.
0:17.6	But I've got Gary O'Reilly and Chuck Nice.
0:20.2	You're the main dudes here.
0:21.7	And who do we have with it?
0:22.7	Ron Darling with the New York Metz.
0:25.4	The one and only.
0:26.4	The one and only.
0:27.6	So what I always want to know, you as a professional baseball player,
0:31.0	we were ever thinking about the science of the pitch at all.
0:35.4	Or was it just kind of you're feeling it and you're just going with the flow?
0:38.9	No, I think you think about the science all the time.
0:42.2	I mean, it depends on I guess who you are and what you like out of the game.
0:46.6	I mean, you're trying to, at some point, spin a baseball.
0:51.2	The more revolutions it has, the better pitch it's going to be.
0:55.2	So you try to maximize that.
0:57.3	Better as in more confusing to the batter.
0:59.4	More confusing to the batter.
1:00.9	More break.
1:02.3	You're not only full with that.
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