Get rid of that humidor in their stadium...Ahmed literally just hit one on the hands and it went 420 ft to Center..look at the video...it’s ridiculous...what’s the point?
Get rid of that humidor in their stadium...Ahmed literally just hit one on the hands and it went 420 ft to Center..look at the video...it’s ridiculous...what’s the point?
Last edited by jsebe10; 04-30-2018 at 09:57 PM.
rico43 (05-01-2018)
The humidor causes fewer HR, not more.
Also, is this the one you're talking about? https://twitter.com/Dbacks/status/991156909083279361
That is full extension, not in on the hands at all.
Last edited by smootness; 05-01-2018 at 08:32 AM.
nsacpi (05-01-2018)
I would settle for making them get rid of thier horrendous uniforms.
clvclv (05-02-2018)
Those uniforms are really bad, especially the road uni's.
4maddux_cy's (05-01-2018), clvclv (05-02-2018), Evad (05-01-2018), Managuarantano's Volunteers (05-02-2018)
Storing the balls in a humidor theoretically reduces homeruns by reducing the overall “liveliness” of the ball, thanks to hydrogen bonding slackening the wool wound up in the balls; they call this the “coefficient of restitution”. But making the entire stadium a humidor theoretically has the opposite effect, as higher humidity means lower air density (stoichiometry ftw) and thus less air-resistance to the ball’s trajectory.
I’m not in AZ anymore, so I’m not up on what the Dbacks have done; but, across all the games I’ve been to at Chase, the only stadium humidification was the swamp coolers they use (and need) in the stands.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
I love April stats. Nick Ahmed has more HRs (5) than the guy he was part of a package in obtaining, Upton the Younger (4).
jpx7 (05-01-2018)
jpx7 is correct on the effect of increased humidity leading to the ball traveling further. But Chase Field uses a humidor on the balls, not the air itself. This was done specifically to reduce offense.
jpx7 (05-01-2018)
He sure is: http://www.exploratorium.edu/basebal...u-hit-one.html
"An increase in humidity has a surprising effect on air density: As humidity increases, air density decreases. In damp air, the large, heavy oxygen and nitrogen molecules are replaced by lighter water molecules, resulting in less density"
jpx7 (05-01-2018)
As for humidity: from what I’ve read (and I did double-check my recollections before posting), the change in air density is more meaningful than any drag from water vapor; but the effects of water-based intermolecular forces on the ball’s components themselves are by far the most meaningful.
As for stoichiometry: in gas stoichiometry (which is what’s relevant here), a primary concern is the relationship of conditions in a system (linking the various ideal and real gas laws), which then governs how reactions proceed / equilibrate. Really just an off-hand reference to the subject-heading under which I originally learned about the calculable relationship of systemic conditions.
"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
Managuarantano's Volunteers (05-02-2018)