Aaron Judge is stronger than (some) rocket scientists thought possible
  • 7 years ago
When Aaron Judge hit a home run into the roof of the Miami Marlins' new stadium during the home run derby, it was a big deal but as Tom Verducci at SI.com explained today, it probably should've been a bigger deal. Basically, when the engineers were designing the park, they tried to calculate how high the roof needed to be so no balls would hit it, borrowing equations from NASA. The roof if supposed to be impossible to hit, reaching as high as 210 feet at its apex. Then Judge came to the park for the home run derby and hit it. "The Marlins estimated that it cleared one girder and smacked against another at a height off the ground of about 170 feet in deep left-centerfield. Think about that: about 17 stories high after traveling about 300 feet." "The moral of the story is this: you can bring together the brainpower of the world’s smartest building engineers, combine it with every bit of local atmospheric data, add to it the computational power of NASA, and you still can’t Judge-proof a ballpark."
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