Baseball Today
Cleveland at Kansas City (8:10 p.m.) C.C. Sabathia, the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner, tries to get on track against the Royals and their woeful offense. Sabathia (0-3, 13.50 ERA) hasn’t made it through the sixth inning in four starts this season.
- Chase Utley, Phillies, homered for the fifth straight game and Philadelphia beat Colorado 9-5 in the first meeting between the teams since the Rockies’ first-round sweep last October.
- Julio Lugo, Red Sox, went 4-for-4 with a double and two runs in Boston’s 8-3 win over Texas. It was Lugo’s first four-hit game since May 12 against Baltimore.
- Ivan Rodriguez, Tigers, had four hits, a double and an RBI and Detroit beat Toronto 5-1. Rodriguez raised his average from .189 to .271 by going 9-for-17 in the series.
- Miguel Tejada, Astros, went 4-for-5 with a homer and three RBIs in Houston’s 10-3 rout of San Diego.
- Hanley Ramirez, Marlins, hit a two-run homer during a four-run second inning and Florida routed Pittsburgh 10-4. Ramirez has three homers in two games.
Alex Rodriguez has a mild strain of his right quadriceps and returned to New York to be examined rather than accompany the team to Chicago, where the Yankees start a series against the White Sox on Tuesday night. A-Rod was injured Sunday in New York’s 7-1 win at Baltimore. The Yankees were unsure whether A-Rod would be available to play in the series opener. … Brewers ace Ben Sheets will skip his start on Wednesday because of soreness in his right triceps that caused him to leave his start Friday night. Sheets will be replaced in the rotation by Dave Bush, who got passed over Sunday when Yovani Gallardo returned from the 15-day disabled list.
David Ortiz had two doubles and three RBIs in Boston’s 8-3 win over Texas. Ortiz raised his average to .177 after a horrible early season slump. Prior to a four-game sweep of Texas that began Friday night, Ortiz was hitting .111 with four RBIs. He went 7-for-16 in the series with 11 RBIs.
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Tuesday 22 Apr 2008 | Wilmot | Uncategorized
I doubt a lot of those old numbers. I can’t imagine Mickey Mantel, for example, being able to hit longer than Pujols. Then again, I can’t stand baseball. What do I know?
When I was getting my physics degree, I wrote up computer simulationsof baseballs in flight. Wind can have a large influence on the trajectory.I remember when someone launched a baseball onto the roof of a buildingon Sheffield Avenue across from Wrigley Field when wind was blowing veryhard in that direction. Steroids may have helped too.
Babe Ruth and the Mick, could still teach these young guys a thing or too.
565 feet? Most stadiums don’t even extend that far, so he’d've needed to hit it a hundred yards high, too, to get it outta the stadium and 565 away from home plate.
” The ball had broken the confines of the stadium, and with it went any chance of truly knowing how far it traveled.”Ok, so break down of the story: Yes, no, well maybe… ok it’s possible, NO WAY IT’S POSSIBLE..ok, well, sure…and.. i believe so.
I hate it when nerds try bringing statistics and math and physics into baseball like this and try to ruin the fun for everyone.
Like throwing a hotdog into outer space…
I believe Bugs Bunny holds that record.
565 or not, it’s amazing how good Mantle was, given the only drugs he put in his body would have -harmed- his performance.
Don’t we have better things to do than this?
I never realized that the 565 story may not be true.Makes sense though. I’ve seen Ryan Howard absolutely massacre and still fall short of 500 ft, so I guess Mantle hitting one that far is kind of unbelievable.
User submitted content: Digg’s longest myth.
That’s nothing. Babe Ruth hit a ball from New York to Boston. Granted, it landed on a freight train and made most of the journey that way, but it’s still impressive.
This is only popular because it brings down an American hero.
“Actually, the longest home run ever hit isn’t even the longest home run ever hit.” This sentence boggles my mind.