Sentences with phrase «seams on a baseball»

Mid-ocean ridges form at the boundaries between tectonic plates, circling the globe like seams on a baseball.

The two were collaborating on a study of mid-ocean ridges, chains of volcanoes and hydrothermal vents that snake around the planet like the seams on a baseball.

The mid-ocean ridge is an interconnected system of undersea volcanoes that meander over the Earth like the raised seams on a baseball.

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The seams on major league baseballs are lower than those used in college and the minors, however, making it difficult for Etherton to grip the palmball well enough to control it.

Best of all, when Dreifort's on, he has one of the most unhittable pitches in baseball, a two - seam sinkerball that travels 90 - plus and takes a strange, twisting dive as it crosses the front edge of the plate.

A change to the seams has reduced air resistance on baseballs, and between that and the sudden desire of so many players to hit fly balls, we've got ourselves a whole bunch of dingers we didn't have even just a few years ago.

However, the same algorithm that helps our brain track motion can be tricked by the pattern motion of an object, such as the seams on a spinning baseball, which causes our brain to «see» the ball suddenly drop from its path when, in reality, it curves steadily.