Batting Practice

[C00livory]

I thought this was pretty badass and worthy of a post.

[Cam L]

That was pretty sick O_o

[Mike]

Dat accuracy and the ability to keep on hitting consistently.

noice

[Joshjrn]

Fake.

[Doc]

Send that video to baseball coaches around America!

[Joshjrn]

Fake.

[Mike]

Fake.

Fake.

But it's pretty cool. So what part gave it away to you?

[Jake]

He pops the ball up every single time except once

[Jake]

Also batted balls don't bounce off those screens like that

[Glad2BeBamf]

I play baseball and I'm decent but damn that is some consistent hitting right there.

[Hess]

Ooooh no waayyy double baseballs all the way!

Looks fake to me as well, the ball hits the same spot of the screen each time.

[Pink Plow]

poor stance, obviously looks fake

[Joshjrn]

Fake.

Fake.

But it's pretty cool. So what part gave it away to you?

He pops the ball up every single time except once

Also batted balls don't bounce off those screens like that

That and that, for starters. It is physically impossible to be that precise with a baseball, and even if you were, the screens aren't perfect. Regardless, the ball flights just aren't natural. It's frozen rope after frozen rope from screen to screen, somehow losing no energy over the several seconds that it's flying around, and then the screen that sends it back to him somehow puts some wicked 12 to 6 spin on the ball. He hits the bottom quarter of the ball every time (sometimes looking like he actually missed it) yet hits yet another frozen rope in the exact same spot. Considering his stance in some of those hits, he would have been lucky to have enough power to make it to the second screen, much less back to the plate.

Just to put the physics of this into perspective, a professional hitter, hitting off of a tee straight into a screen standing over 2nd base might get a hittable ball to come back to him once out of every 10 tries. Maybe.

[Beeppudnolan]

His swing really isn't as bad as it may seem, but yeah it is fake. Difficult enough to hit the screen let alone the same spot of the screen. Its cool idea though.

[Doc]

Fake or not, it's pretty cool

[Jake]

His swing really isn't as bad as it may seem, but yeah it is fake. Difficult enough to hit the screen let alone the same spot of the screen. Its cool idea though.

He steps into the pitch, is way out on his front foot, and his load sucks. I'd say it's a pretty poor stance

[Cpatel23]

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