Actually, Charlie, I have no certain idea about the topic, but 'checked swings' are more generally a description for an attempt to NOT swing and definitely not make contact with the ball in order to not get called for a strike for swinging at a pitch outside the strike zone. Hitting and swings and follow throughs are a 'Dark Art' to me and how any flippin body hits well a ball coming in at 90 miles an hour is beyond me! As for whether my other image is of a 'strike', I'd say it was based a) on the image itself and b) my teams hitters did a magnificent job striking out for most of the game! Richard ________________________________ From: Charlie Falke <chfalke@xxxxxxx> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tue, May 4, 2010 10:54:10 AM Subject: [LRflex] Re: Decisive Moments On 5/4/2010 10:47 AM, Richard Ward wrote: > Hi Aram, > It is a bit baffling, isn't it. The apparent physics being shown in the > still aren't the same as what one would see when viewing in 'live' or on > 'video'. The bats are swung with a lot of power, the baseball is coming in > at 70-90 mph, and sometimes the wood in the bats fail and even shatter. In > this case the bat failed in the > Richard, I have to assume the batter checks the swing somewhat after it connects to prevent damage to people nearby, in this case it had little effect. Recent shot timed very well. Great pitch, too, a called strike? -- Charlie Falke _____ /\ | __/\__/------/__) |(____\/_________/ "One test result is worth | |/ `o one thousand expert opinions" - Wernher Von Braun 0 N4003M "Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/