Walt Hooper strode to the plate, swung the bat and lifted a soft fly ball past second base. “Good hit, Walt!” a teammate shouted. Why praise a pop-up? Hooper, of Ellicott City, is 90 ye… ...

The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Panel on Wednesday approved multiple rule changes for the Division I 2026 college softball ...

Finally, on pitch 21 of the at-bat — and after 15 foul balls, Dolcini got Gammill, with major assistance from Janae Jefferson at second. The crucial out kept Texas down only 1-0 in the third inning.

Baseball bats are slightly shorter in length than softball bats — 33 inches for a baseball bat versus 34 inches for softball. Despite being slightly shorter in the length, baseball bats tend to ...

Objectives: To investigate safety risks in slowpitch softball by conducting laboratory and experimental studies on the performance of high tech softball bats with polyurethane softballs. To compare ...

Length A properly sized bat is big enough to cover the strike zone, light enough to swing yet heavy enough to launch the ball into the field on contact. For players ages 5-16, bats commonly fall ...

After leaving the bat, the ball is (with one simplifying approximation that I'll come back to) in free flight, acted on by gravity, and the acceleration of gravity is well known to be 9.8 m/s/s ...

Mizuno Techfire Crush Composite Softball Bat Walk up to plate and point at centerfield Rail ball over fence Tip hat at all basemen as you saunter past on way back to home plate Those are the only ...