Game Thread, Twins @ Tigers, 9/26

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

 

Incorrect. I recommend looking up the dimensions of a base, the dimensions of home plate and the position of home plate and first base within an infield.

home plate has an interesting history, but I'm too dumb to do all your math right now

[sampleSizeOfOne]

What's the shape of home plate?

 

I vaguely remember hearing it's 17 inches wide (causing the strike zone to be that with the width of a baseball of fuzzy logic).

 

Is it inscribed into a 17" square, or does it circumscribe one?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

And i assume the 90' distance is between the points of the bases/plate nearest the ump?

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

 

Oh, it's a research project?

I was figuring it was a geometry project...

Or do we have to do research before we do geometry?

yes.

[spinowner]

Regarding the math problem, you can find all the information you need from the internets.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Regarding the math problem, you can find all the information you need from the internets.

Yeah, but it's a fine line between finding the component info, and finding where someone does the work for ya...

[sampleSizeOfOne]

What's the shape of home plate?

 

I vaguely remember hearing it's 17 inches wide (causing the strike zone to be that with the width of a baseball of fuzzy logic).

 

Is it inscribed into a 17" square, or does it circumscribe one?

Inscribed, apparently...

[jimbo92107]

A good change-up would get a swing half a foot under it.

[jimbo92107]

These hitters are crowding the plate. Time for eine kleine chinmusik.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

haha a safety squeeze with Victor Martinez on third

[spinowner]

 

haha a safety squeeze with Victor Martinez on third

Ya, for him to score the bunt would have to get to the outfield

[Physics Guy]

So here's something for your brains to do while watching the game: To the nearest inch, what is the distance between home plate and first base? Hint: it's not 90 feet, 0 inches.

87'3" if you go from the closest point on home plate to first base.

[mikecgrimes]

Pat Mahomes jr with a big game QBing Texas Tech looking to upset TCU for anyone that cares.  Between him Torii Hunter Jr playing WR for Notre Dame and Brent Gates Jr about to start his Gopher hockey career those 90's Twins teams were doing something right.

[Physics Guy]

Duffey dodged a bullet there. Bunt???

[USAFChief]

One thing I wish all Twins pitchers would do is pitch more "up and down" as well as "in and out."

 

That AB to Castellanos was just screaming for an eye-high FB.  Tough to lay off with two strikes, because it has the plate.

 

None of the Twins staff does that much, must be an organizational thing.

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

 

haha a safety squeeze with Victor Martinez on third

meant to say Castellanos

Joke is still just as funny

[sampleSizeOfOne]

tie game. thanks for distracting me from the tigers scoring.

 

88.5' = 88'6" = (88x12+6) = 1,062"

 

plate is nestled into foul lines w/ 12" along both lines... bases are 90' down lines (nearest point, i assume, else the above adjustment is the other half the question.)

 

but then... is it 17" wide? or is it 12 times the square root of 2 inches?

[spinowner]

 

87'3" if you go from the closest point on home plate to first base.

YOU ARE CORRECT!!!

[Hosken Bombo Disco]

 

One thing I wish all Twins pitchers would do is pitch more "up and down" as well as "in and out."

 

That AB to Castellanos was just screaming for an eye-high FB.  Tough to lay off with two strikes, because it has the plate.

 

None of the Twins staff does that much, must be an organizational thing.

Concur, Castellanos fouled off a couple of those two strike pitches, not in the strike zone but still close enough to foul off. Then rips one.

 

 

 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

YOU ARE CORRECT!!!

So the bases/plate are inscribed within a 90' square?

[jimbo92107]

These guys are sitting on Duffey's curve. He needs to straighten them up and throw some changes.

[mikecgrimes]

Pat mahomes Jr comes up about 10 yards short on one of the otherwise craziest scramble into a pretty well executed Standford band play. Glad I watched that while the twins were giving up the lead.

[Physics Guy]

So the bases/plate are inscribed within a 90' square?

Yes, for home plate, 1B and 3B. 2B has its center at the point of the 90' square. Why it's not inside the square is beyond me.

[ScrapTheNickname]

Dear TD,

 

Are you sitting your typing fingers, or chewing your fingernails? What is preventing you from typing. It's been 10 minutes and nobody has written anything. Thus I have taken it upon myself to fill the void with a void.

 

 

[ScrapTheNickname]

 

 

Pat mahomes Jr comes up about 10 yards short on one of the otherwise craziest scramble into a pretty well executed Standford band play. Glad I watched that while the twins were giving up the lead.

I remember when Pat Mahomes announced that he was going be ROY. Didn't pan out.

[DrNeau]

 

YOU ARE CORRECT!!!

Never knew that. Thanks. 

[DrNeau]

 

I remember when Pat Mahomes announced that he was going be ROY. Didn't pan out.

Did he really? Haha. 

[Physics Guy]

Fien has 31K in 61+ IP. Exactly what you look for out of one of your top setup men.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

So the bases/plate are inscribed within a 90' square?

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/official_rules/objectives_1.jsp

 

Except for 2nd base which is centered on the corner...

 

Weird.

 

But yeah, 90' is the distance from the point of the plate where foul lines intersect to the far edge on the foul line of both 3rd and 1st, and the distance from those points on 3rd and first to the center of 2nd...

 

Thanks for the edumication on the fine details of the lay out of the infield.

[DrNeau]

Nice diving grab by Mauer!