Sorry if this has been covered before. I've been away for a while.
Does this paper on pitch trajectories suggest that a perfectly thrown riseball can actually still be rising when crossing home plate? If I understand the tables and graphs, the suggestion seems to be that the ball would still be rising, although very very slightly, and at the that point be pretty flat for the final feet of travel. Also, it may be nearly impossible to place perfectly so that such a pitch intersects the top of the strike zone.
Nevertheless, I found it to be a surprising result.
Does this paper on pitch trajectories suggest that a perfectly thrown riseball can actually still be rising when crossing home plate? If I understand the tables and graphs, the suggestion seems to be that the ball would still be rising, although very very slightly, and at the that point be pretty flat for the final feet of travel. Also, it may be nearly impossible to place perfectly so that such a pitch intersects the top of the strike zone.
Nevertheless, I found it to be a surprising result.