Or maybe it could just be that the release angle of each ball was different?
Why would you suspect a different release angle? The arm on the batting machine provides a very stable release angle because of GRAVITY. The effect of a ball not settling to the bottom of a very slow mechanical rotating "hand" would be hard to prove. The machine is bolted down and consistently releases pitch after pitch at a constant 80 mph speed.
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And perhaps that a ball thrown with a steep enough release angle will rise at the beginning of it's initial trajectory path? No, that would be too easy wouldn't it!?!?
To easy? No, that would concur with my point all along. The ball rises above initial trajectory at the beginning, the middle and end because it is traveling 100 mph upon release and 99 mph at the plate. Those of you who are looking for a DIP must be disappointed with LIFT.
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Dude, you are a hoot! Now gravity isn't a constant after all. It varies between pitches. Wow, you need to apply for a Nobel or something because that is one fantastic discovery that truly contradicts centuries of understanding of gravity and physics.
Yep, I have said it all along and can easily prove it. Gravity acts differently on all pitches, bullets, shells, and bombs. Thank GOD for GPS and LASERS that aim STRAIGHT because the PARABOLIC GRAVITY CURVE was never that GOOD an AIM with the pitches, bullets, shells, and bombs. Quantity tossed always won out over quality of tosses using those older PHYSICS books.
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Oh, and I love that you threw in that big "standard deviation" word. It gave the whole paragraph a much needed academic feel.
Good, because I have stated at least 9 different reasonable PROOFS and BIGUMP56 still repeats his same old tired WIVES TALE. Some of you may remember 1) the baseball strikeout records, 2) logical reasoning of FOUR primal directions, 3) sexual bias between softball and hardball, 4) aerodynamics characteristics of winged-FLIGHT, 5) fluid dynamic effects of airflow (HPG is PRIMARY force) around a baseball, 6) Air resitance affecting kinetic energy from light boomerang to baseball to heavier football, 7) mathematical proof that gravity's role on 100 mph fastball isn't the same as a 70 mph fastball, 8) the role of LIFT exisiting in our WARM atmosphere, and 9) a statistical argument for RISE. Now those 9 items are the ones I remember over the last 5 months. How many have I failed to discuss. I am sure that, along with the proofs, I gave countless number of examples. I guess your next question would ask me to list them all too.
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You kill me.... ROTFLMAO!!!!!
I did the best I could.