♫ and the home of the ♫ brave ♫ - pretty good harmony! - not bad.- yeah, that was real good. (upbeat music)
Average Length Of Baseball Game, - baseball! here we are at p3. - our friend rodney hooked us up with this amazing sports science facility.
- we're going to put you guysthrough some testing today that we would put any pro baseball athlete through, actually. - i played little league baseball up until about fourth grade. the pitching started getting faster and i got scared. - [voiceover] i never gotto the level of baseball where another humanthrows the ball at you.
- coming into this, i am coming in like a baseball virgin. - i have never swung a bat. i mean-- - i'm the only one of usethat even plays sports, and now i got a broken, i can't even participate. - i don't think i've everheld a mitt, honestly. - just, just terrible, just horrible. - cool!
- the goal for today isto not sprain anything. - i just want to comeout of here in one piece. - this is the wrong hand. - [voiceover] it goes on,if you're right-handed. - oh! ah! - it's going to be a fun one! - almost everything we do in baseball, we're going to start offwith a lateral stance. we're going to look athow much horizontal force
that we can create. we want to see how muchlateral drive you guys have, and then how much you can actually apply in a sport-specific baseball manner. - so you guys have seen themmake a video game before? same technology. - we're going to get, like,motion tracking on us. - benny, hit the lights. boom. - what!
- [voiceover] that's so cool! - so basically all force plates are, they're high-tech scales. they tell us how much force you're going to be putting into the ground in real time as you gothrough any movements. - (mumbles) rate, all that kind of stuff. - everything. - i feel like a superhero.
- we're going to see,standing on this plate, pushing off your back foot, how far out can you go. - [voiceover] go, keith, go! go, keith, go! - all right, 6.78 for keith. - what's a good number? - think big, baby, think big! - look at that face, ned.
- that's 6.9. - yes! - the average baseballplayer is putting up a little over 9 newtons per kilogram. so you're a little below that. - so how are we goingto succeed on the field? - it's got to be the "it" factor. - the computer can't tell that. - [woody] base running, you have to wait
until the guy hits the ball. in this case with a left-handedpitcher on the mound, since he's facing you, you're not sure if he'sthrowing to the plate or he's trying to pick you off. - [keith] oooh! - so we're going to runthrough a couple of scenarios where he's either goingto throw it to home, and you're going to try to steal,
or he's going to try to pick you guys off, you guys got to try to dive back in safe. - i'm excited, in that sortof fear-driven excitement. - you know i don't really pose a threat, so why waste a pitch? - ah! - i'm giving him the "steal" signal. - [voiceover] steal,steal, steal, steal, steal! - oh!
- [voiceover] keith, you're out. - [voiceover] hand up, man, hand up. - my doctor would kill me. - [voiceover] go! - when we talk about baseball, it's just a drop-dead rotationalballistic power sport. this machine is going to measure how much rotational powerthat you guys can create. so let's just warm itup nice and easy, okay.
remember, outside hand on the first, inside hand, step away,feel the resistance, pick up your front foot. we're going to swing it around. - goddammit, eugene. - peak power for you, eugene, 1,062. - i feel like if i make awarrior grunt when i do it, it will help. - [woody] let's see.- arrrghh!
- 761! - feels about right comparedto our physical fitness. - the average for probaseball is around 2,300. - damn! - no matter what this number is, we also have to be able toapply that to a moving ball. that could be 90 to 100 miles an hour. you have a fraction ofa second, as a hitter, to identify if the pitchis going to be a strike,
and then we actually have to hit it. - i think this is goingto end very poorly for me. nothing, woah! - i just learned that theseballs can go well over 100 miles per hour withthese professional pitchers. - [woody] dylan axlerod,starting pitcher with the cincinnati reds. - [zach] nothing that we did in the lab tells me i'm ready for this.
- oh, oh! that is fast. all right, here we go. - [eugene] you can hear theball's friction in the air. it's like the ball's screamingafter it's been like spanked, you know. it's like, arrrggghhh! - (mumbles) this, zach! - oooohhh!
- argh! argh! yeah! - we made contact! - we made contact with the ball! - i think it's time to headfor the cool-down party. we'll focus on regeneration. - what's the cool-down party? - all right, here we go. - what did we learn today? - baseball is a hard sport.
- it takes a lot of training. - oh my god, this is cold. - i didn't hurt myself. this is like a huge win for me. - oh my god. cold on my butt. - this feels fantastic. - america's passtime. - people think thatbaseball is a slow game,
when you watch it on tv it feels slow. ha-haa! - there's a lot of athleticism involved. - numbers and sports science. - you have to be so fit to do it. - it's so fast it just happened;you blink and it's done. - is it over?- [voiceover] you're done. - thank goodness. - it's ending!
♫ the cold never bothered me anyway ♫ - [voiceover] today was crazy. special thanks to p3peak performance project. - [voiceover] the lab. - [voiceover] westmont college baseball. - [voiceover] and all theamazing players and coaches who helped us out. - [voiceover] until next time... - [all] what will we try next?!
- are we not doing that this time? - no, no, no. this was about baseball, not nudity.
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