At Bat
Good Morning all, wishing you all a good day, In a recent post I titled playball I posted some shots of a group playing baseball in Buttonwood Park and mentioned I may or may not have had success of catching photos of the batters with the ball in shot.
Well I did have success catching the ball in a few shots, but not with it just as the bat was connecting with the ball, so I will try again some other time but I thought these were OK to share
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You may have to look closely to spot the ball in each of the photos but it is there
I never played Baseball myself I think we did have Softball at high school and I would have played sometimes but I never got into the sport like I did with Rugby and soccer
Now I wondered what the difference between the two sports were and found the following
In baseball the pitcher throws overhand, while softball players throw underhand. There are also two different styles of softball, slowpitch and fastpitch--while baseball only has one. Another major difference between the two sports is the equipment they use. For one thing, softballs are larger than baseballs.
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The balls coming in low this next time
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I got close to catching the ball and bat connecting in this shot but thats as close as I go it
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Well in this one it almost looks like the ball is hitting the bat or at least looks lined up with it, but of course the batter hasn't even swung the bat yet
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I think he was trying for a bunt in this next shot
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and into the air the ball flys, and in this case it sailed nicely to a fielder who caught it and it was batter out
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