Chapman’s 106-mph fastball was likely bogus - 美國職棒

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-passan_aroldis_chapman_106_radar_reds_
fastball_controversy_041911

http://bit.ly/h6Rvgh 火球男106 MPH

Let’s start with the facts, sparse as they may be. Cincinnati Reds
left-hander Aroldis Chapman(notes), the man who many believe hurls
a baseball faster than anyone ever has, threw a pitch Monday night.
This pitch was a fastball. This fastball zoomed high and inside and
could well have decapitated the batter, Andrew McCutchen(notes). The
facts end there.

Immediately after this pitch, three nuggets of information started to
parade themselves as facts. The scoreboard at Great American Ball Park
in Cincinnati flashed the pitch’s speed at 106 mph. The box in the
upper-right-hand corner of Fox Sports Ohio’s broadcast pegged the
fastball at 105 mph. The PITCHf/x system, a scientific marvel in every
major league stadium that uses three cameras to pinpoint a pitch’s
velocity to the tenth of a mile per hour, said it left Chapman’s hand
at 102.4 mph. At most, one is correct. None may be.

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