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Pitchers duel or Hitters duel
Which would you prefer?
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I'm bringing this up as I read people talking about the short fences in softball
= homeruns.
Like this has always been.
But it hasnt!
There were changes made in softball to balance out the pitcher's duel. Make the game more exciting and bring more fan base. It seemed to have worked! Perhaps there may be some on DFP that weren't around before these changes were made so I'm sharing this.
Softball used to be very much a pitcher's duel with very few hits and very few runners on base. Lots of extra inning games.
Pitching was from 40 ft.
I do believe the old ball had a lot more movement in it as its surface had more tact to react with spin/air. The pitching speeds were still the same as they are currently.
Thrown from a pitching rubber at 40'.
In an effort to make softball more appealing they made some changes to the game. Firstly they moved the pitching back 3 feet.
They changed the ball.
New ball is created to have more flight! Smoother surface.
Also new bat technology stepped up to the plate.
*While these changes did inflate batting averages by easily a hundred points.
It created a much livelier game with many more batters able to hit home runs. Where previously it was very hard to hit a homerun and did not happen all the time at all.
Added many more baserunners to the game.
Certainly started challenging deffense more!
So this brings up the question what would you prefer ?
A PITCHERS DUEL OR A HITTERS DUEL?
I am glad to experience BOTH !
*as a separate note to those that talk about the bat technology adding so much.
Would like to share about the new ball versus the old ball.
I had taken an old white debeer ball and the new yellow ball....my old aluminum bat and a DeMarini to the plate to toss up and hit .
With both bats hitting the old white Debeer, the ball reacted almost the same. Hard to reach the fence.
However hitting the new yellow ball, both bats crushed it over the fence. Easily adding measurable distance!
It is my opinion that the flight of the yellow ball has added tremendously to the speed of the game and the distance of hitting.
Which would you prefer?
______________________
I'm bringing this up as I read people talking about the short fences in softball
= homeruns.
Like this has always been.
But it hasnt!
There were changes made in softball to balance out the pitcher's duel. Make the game more exciting and bring more fan base. It seemed to have worked! Perhaps there may be some on DFP that weren't around before these changes were made so I'm sharing this.
Softball used to be very much a pitcher's duel with very few hits and very few runners on base. Lots of extra inning games.
Pitching was from 40 ft.
I do believe the old ball had a lot more movement in it as its surface had more tact to react with spin/air. The pitching speeds were still the same as they are currently.
Thrown from a pitching rubber at 40'.
In an effort to make softball more appealing they made some changes to the game. Firstly they moved the pitching back 3 feet.
They changed the ball.
New ball is created to have more flight! Smoother surface.
Also new bat technology stepped up to the plate.
*While these changes did inflate batting averages by easily a hundred points.
It created a much livelier game with many more batters able to hit home runs. Where previously it was very hard to hit a homerun and did not happen all the time at all.
Added many more baserunners to the game.
Certainly started challenging deffense more!
So this brings up the question what would you prefer ?
A PITCHERS DUEL OR A HITTERS DUEL?
I am glad to experience BOTH !
*as a separate note to those that talk about the bat technology adding so much.
Would like to share about the new ball versus the old ball.
I had taken an old white debeer ball and the new yellow ball....my old aluminum bat and a DeMarini to the plate to toss up and hit .
With both bats hitting the old white Debeer, the ball reacted almost the same. Hard to reach the fence.
However hitting the new yellow ball, both bats crushed it over the fence. Easily adding measurable distance!
It is my opinion that the flight of the yellow ball has added tremendously to the speed of the game and the distance of hitting.
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