{"id":10056,"date":"2019-08-02T12:32:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T19:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10056"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:36:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T19:36:33","slug":"ball-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/02\/ball-juice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball Juice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These scientists may have solved MLB’s ‘juiced’ baseball problem<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by Josh Peter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PULLMAN, Wash. \u2014 In cardboard boxes and plastic bins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On shelving units and tabletops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even suspended in midair, as if by magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the sprawling Sports Science Laboratory at Washington State University, baseballs are everywhere. In flight, too, when they\u2019re fired out of air cannons at up to 90 mph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have balls coming from all over the place,\u2019\u2019 Lloyd Smith told USA TODAY Sports, and he plucked one off a table in the lab where he was sitting last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith is a 55-year-old professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering who oversees the baseball madness inside the lab he started in 2003. For almost two years, he has been working for Major League Baseball to figure out if and why \u201cjuiced baseballs\u201d have triggered a surge in home runs<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mystery appears to be over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at USAT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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