Quite the opposite, Chris, the batter is trying to keep it away from the
fielders.
Charlie
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 4:46 PM, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I know little about baseball or softball; is the batter likely to be
> aiming at these fielders?
>
> Chris
>
> > On 2 Dec 2014, at 21:41, Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I did some Internet sleuthing. Apparently there have been an increasing
> > number of girls (especially) being hit in the face with line drives in
> > softball. Many of those hit have been quite seriously injured. At least
> one
> > article said it was because pitcher's mound has been recently relocated
> to
> > be about a yard further from the plate, which means batters have more
> time
> > to react and are getting more (and more powerful) hits.
> >
> > Regardless, batter's face masks, and, increasingly the open masks like
> > those pictured are being recommended for girl's softball for batter, 1st
> > base, 3rd base and pitcher. Especially 3rd base and the pitcher, who are
> > the most likely to be struck by a line drive.
>
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