Didjya Ever Notice?

[Gulf Coast Blue]

Originally Posted by tcannizzo

This has nothing to do with FPSB and I don't expect anyone to have an answer (wrong board) , but putting it out there...

In MLB low pitch, skips into catcher's mitt.
New baseball.
Why? Dirt puts a spot on ball which batters don't like.

Just watched the first inning of Mil-Atl.
Whole half-inning with the same baseball!

Two of the outs were ground outs where ball hit on the infield dirt, but the same ball stayed in the game.
Seems like there would be "spots" on the baseball, but there was no "ball rotation".

Doesn't this sound a bit contradictory?

I first started noticing the frequency of new balls being introduced into MLB when I first started umpiring baseball over 30 years ago.

When I was in college, I attended just about every University of Tx home baseball game and found it funny, that foul balls hit off concrete wall always made thier way back into the PU's ball bag. I know those things had to have some major scuffs on them.

Joel