#ICYMI - Juiced Balls, Broken Bats & Record Breakers, with Shawn Green

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🗓️ 18 October 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel… Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore the science of baseball with physicist Alan Nathan, James Sherwood, Director at the Baseball Research Center, and baseball great Shawn Green.

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0:00.0	I'm Gary Aurelie and I'm Chuck Knives.
0:11.0	And this is playing with science.
0:13.5	It's that time of the year when the legends of the fall rise and stake a claim to Major League
0:18.7	baseball's coveted World Series pennant.
0:22.1	We don't know yet who will battle it out this time around, but we do know if there's
0:26.4	a miss gole.
0:28.0	The juicing rumors will return.
0:30.0	Absolutely.
0:31.0	And we have the perfect guess for just that top of the man who wrote last year's baseball
0:36.0	juicing paper physics professor Alan Nathan.
0:38.5	So we'll get to the bottom of whether or not that is the case.
0:42.8	Plus we'll be talking to James Sherwood from the UMass Lowell baseball research center.
0:47.4	They're the guys that run the tests on both bats and balls, which will certainly be interesting.
0:52.2	Yes, it will indeed.
0:53.2	And because we've got the science and tech basis covered, we needed a seriously big hitter.
0:58.6	So we have a man who amongst other records owns the most home runs in a single game and
1:03.1	it's four by the way.
1:04.7	That man is Sean Grease.
1:06.7	Oh, yes.
1:07.7	Oh, we're looking forward to talking to him.
1:08.7	Really?
1:09.7	That's a great mix in this show, man.
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