JotCast | 2016 World Series Game 3 Live Blog

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Eno Sarris

10:51

Lonnie's not great out there.

Rick

10:52

Baez--still the Best Young Player in Baseball?

Eno Sarris

10:52

Let's see what happens next and decide then, I think.

Zmccoy

10:53

One more out from him and I say they trade him.

The Hamburglar

10:53

Baez is a good player whose happened to have an exciting postseason. I don't think he's going to be an MVP candidate anytime soon

Eno Sarris

10:53

I dunno. I used to think he wouldn't be a major leaguer.

jonnyzuck

10:54

They mentioned gravity helping the acceleration on the diving article, but how would gravity accelerate you in the X(along the baseline) direction? In a free fall situation gravity would pull you closer to the ground but it not along the baseline.

The Hamburglar

10:54

He put up a 94 wRC+. That, combined with his good defense and base running, makes him a good player. I think anymore is asking for huge improvements in his approach at the plate

Eno Sarris

10:54

The base is on the ground, so you're getting horizontal as quickly as possible. You're pushing your body to the point of the bag. It's a diagonal thing.

Russ

10:56

World Series Science: don't dive into 1st base. Instant a runner leaves his feet, he slows down. May have cost Royals a run and the game.

Eno Sarris

10:57

Actually I think diving was prob right decision in this case, but should have not hit ground prior to touching 1B.… twitter.com/i/web/status/7…

If you aren't pushing on the ground with a foot, you are flying through the air. You could fly right at the bag.

anonymous

10:58

But you only need your foot to contact the bag, not your hand. Your foot is closer to the ground than your hand.

Eno Sarris

10:58

see my last tweet.

Russ

10:59

I trust Bill Nye over Eno. Sorry, Eno.

Nate

10:59

If you get your science from Bill Nye, you might want to study ACTUAL science...

Jsolid

11:00

When you dive, you accelerate with your quad which is a much stronger muscle.

Pat

11:00

I trust eno over bill nye any day of the week

Eno Sarris

11:00

That too, you're jumping at the thing. If I wanted something I would jump at it.

Miguel Sano

11:01

As someone who recently graduated with a physics degree I'm going with Bill Nye on this one

Eno Sarris

11:01

He's assuming your foot hits the ground again, I think.

as in, pushing forward.

Aniball

11:01

Nye oversimplifies it I think. Of course the runner's body as a whole slows down once he leaves the ground. But diving gives a runner more extension beyond the center of their mass, which could make up for it.

Bro Charboneau

11:02

There's only one way to solve this. Foot race to first base between Eno (diving) and Science Guy (running through.) Conclusive results to follow.

Ryan Brock

11:02

If Schwarber gets a hold of one this inning, they/we will never stop talking about him.

Eno Sarris

11:03

Anyway, maybe I'm wrong. But I think of it as geometry. Both objects are in flight, one could reach forward as far as possible given that situation.

Pat

11:04

this game is getting baseball'd so hard so far

The Hamburglar

11:04

Would Schwarber hitting a game tying or go ahead HR be the Gibson HR of our generation?

Eno Sarris

11:04

I think all of twitter/media/Wrigley would implode immediately.

11:05

What if Gibson did what he did in the age of cell phones and social media

Jess

11:05

You get a bigger push off your last stride if you're not trying to stay upright, surely?

Eno Sarris

11:05

That's part of the guys' argument I talked to. If you change the angle of your last push and dive forward you're making the angles line up with your longest dimension.

The Hamburglar

11:06

It's Eno's favorite man crush

Eno Sarris

11:06

Bryan Shaw is pretty nasty with that 95 mph cutter.

Ryan Pollack

11:06

That sure looked good from here

Seth

11:07

Hey so in the topic of the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, I was watching the end of Major League, which ends in a walkoff, 2 base suicide squeeze, and I was wondering if that's ever happened before?

5 Run Homer

11:07

That cutter

Ryan Pollack

11:07

Schwarbertime

11:08

High strike

Hint of Rye

11:08

I think I'm fine with Shaw here

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