Sentences with phrase «than wood bats»

More importantly, it afforded batters the ability to produce ball exit speeds between 100 and 103 miles per hour, roughly 10 mph quicker than possible with most aluminum bats, which was already roughly 10 percent quicker than a wood bat.

Not exact matches

Say I am talking about baseball, and different leagues in different countries and I'm comparing and contrasting various types of equipment used in those leagues (aluminum bats in college, only wood in the pros, etc.) and the topic of baseball size comes up, and it's noted that the baseballs in Japan are smaller than the balls used in Major League Baseball.

As a result state - of - the - art aluminum bats can propel a ball considerably faster than 110 mph, whereas balls hit by wood bats average about 92 and rarely exceed 96.

And it may soon sound different as a tiny beetle threatens the northern Pennsylvania stands that for more than a century have supplied wood for bats.