Is it possible to measure Pitch speed without a radar gun?
Question:I am not getting a radar gun for a week, so I was wondering if there is a way to know how fast my fastball before I get the radar.
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Once upon a time, there were no radar guns. Pitch speeds were estimated with stop watches and good ol' arithmetic.
Distance / Time = Speed
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It's very possible and not that hard. Measure the distance that you're pitching, and have someone time you. Then divide the distance by the time and there's your speed.If you have a pretty good video camera you can do this, but it will probably be pretty hard with most home video cameras.
If you have a video camera you can set up a board with alternating black and white strips on it. Record you pitch flying past this board. Replay the video in slow motion and pick an interval on the board that the ball passed. Measure this distance on the board, and find out the time it takes the baseball to travel this distance using the time on the video. Then its just distance/time.
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get yourself a good chronometer and time the pitches well. thge plate its 60 Ft away from the pitcher so you'll need presicion bc every hundredth of second can change the speed.60 Fts are 18.3 Mts ( im going to use the metrical sistem bc it's easier to calculate it this way at least for me)
so if the pitch takes .60 seconds to get to the plate
18.3/60x100 30.5 mts / sec
so if the hour have 3600 secs multiply 30.5*3600
109800 /1000= 109.8 Km/h each Km equals to 0.62 Mi so 109.8*.62= 68 MPH
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Well of course the only way to get the right speed it's checking the time well, i've done it before checking the arm of the pitcher and the sound of the catcher glove, also the radars aren't that exact too, during the scouting every scout bring their radars and they don't match always.
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How many seconds from pitchers hand to catchers mit!Ask your science teacher.
Your distance to the plate will be off.All you people falling over yourself to answer forgot that a pitcher doesn't throw the ball from the rubber,he strides from it.My 10 yr old son releases the ball 4-5 ft from the rubber.Their formula is correct,though.
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no it is not, at least not anything accurate enough to determine let's say to the closest 5 miles per hour. sorry budWho oversees all drug testing in Major League Baseball?
Did you know that the first time anyone tried to estimate pitch speed, it involved Bob Feller and a motorcycle? Really.There is far more to pitching than speed. In fact, pitch speed isn't about pitching at all, it's about throwing. Pitching involves making the ball move, about keeping the hitters off guard, and that simply has nothing whatsoever to do with pitch speed. After all, any batter can hit a fastball, no matter how fast, if it's straight as a string.
Movement, not speed. It's the difference between pitching and throwing.
you can only use an estimate your guess won't be exact to the rader gun but it might get close.
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