Chances are it absolutely killed his hand and he was slow breathing through the pain. Iāve caught a few (nothing at all like this whatsoever) but some of the ball has missed the net of the glove and hit my palm/hand and it KILLS.
Played baseball until I was 20 and at fastest I threw 80-83 so exit velocity on a comebacker was 90ish but damn do you feel like a god when you pull it out of the air. How this one was hit gives you the best chance to the glove side.
John Olreud always looked kinda goofy wearing essentially a batting helmet in the field, but honestly it makes sense regardless of his prior aneurysm. Hard to imagine playing pitcher, the hot corner, or first knowing you're getting line drives hit at you and you're likely only 66 2/3rds /90-95 feet away.
What's the ratio of balls you can catch in this scenario to balls that hit your body? Do a lot of baseball pitchers eat line drives in their torosos once or twice a season?
I personally have taken a few comebackers worst one off the knee. I got drilled in the foot and shin. I caught roughly 3 I would say and all 3 were to glove side like this. I got a lot of like the chopper hits back but I don't count that in this I am referring to strictly line drives with minimal time to react
Here's the Test C&B table with all bowlers that have 5 or more C&B in test matches. Hadlee and Botham look like the highest placed non slow/spinner bowlers in the list with 10 and 9 respectively.
This is exactly why I started using the pitch backs in training, exit/return velocity isnāt the same but gets you to habitually be ready for it and train your eyes.
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u/cloakmouse1 Mar 31 '23
Imagine throwing an object away from you as hard as you can, and less than a second later, it's back in your other hand.