#ICYMI - Breaking Down Baseball Barriers, with Meredith Wills and Justine Siegal

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🗓️ 28 March 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel…. Hosts Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice investigate “HomerGate” alongside baseball data scientist and astrophysicist Meredith Wills, and, get details on what it takes to be a groundbreaker in sports from Justine Siegal, founder of Baseball for All and the first female coach in the MLB. Photo Courtesy of Justine Siegal.

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0:00.0	I'm Gary A. Riley.
0:02.0	I'm Scott Nice.
0:03.0	This is playing with science.
0:06.0	Today we visit the Big Baseball Mystery.
0:11.0	It took place between 2015 and 2017 when there was an outbreak of homers.
0:17.0	But nobody knew boy.
0:18.0	Yeah, and so you know Major League Baseball commissioned an independent investigation led by Professor
0:24.0	Alan Nathan who personally told us right here on PWS in 2018 they'd look and they found
0:32.0	pretty much that there was no smoking gun and that they would continue to look.
0:37.0	Yes, an astrophysicist doctor married this wills was having none of it and tore literally
0:43.0	tore into the balls and found what looked a lot like a firearm with smoke coming out of the barrel.
0:48.0	Well, how about that?
0:49.0	Yes, and also taking us inside baseball's universe will be Major League Baseball's coach Justin Seagal
0:57.0	who might just know a thing or two about where we stand on the cusp of the new baseball season.
1:03.0	But first let's speak to our super sleuth.
1:05.0	Dr. Meredith Willes.
1:08.0	We did speak to Professor Alan Nathan who led the Major League Baseball investigation last year.
1:15.0	And he said something was happening, but they weren't able to discover it.
1:22.0	You did.
1:23.0	But before we get to that point and we will, don't worry, we will.
1:27.0	What led an astrophysicist to baseball?
1:31.0	I love this question.
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