Tuesday Scoreboard Watching Thread: Marlins play two vs. Phillies; Dodgers, Giants and Braves all on the road

I always appreciate your writing.

For those who aren’t aware of it, www.4info.net provide free text message alerts for sports scores and bunches of other stuff (I reviewed 4info on my blog a while back → http://www.observingcasually.com/4infonet-review/ )

You don’t need a smart phone – anything capable of receiving a text message will work. Most of their text messages are free (including all of the spots ones, I believe) – they include a mini text at the end of the messages. If your provider charges you for text messages, those fees will still apply.

I set my phone up to receive Giants scores (in addition to Rockies scores and a notification every time Tulo gets a hit)

I’m not a paid spokesperson, just a huge fan of the service.

the giants as a slim 6:5 fav.

the phils are pickem in game one, small fav in game two.

rest of the lines are over 2:1 in favor of the braves, the rox and the dodgers.

Good guys win, we get one or two of the others (good call RG) to fall our way…

What is the weather doing???
Forecast is not very baseball friendly (50% chance of rain) figured I’d ask for a 1st hand account from friendly Denver area rowbots

Please stay far away, in the National League East. Better yet, any American League teams you’d like to play for? You’re from Minnesota, the Twins will have a brand spanking new field next year, huh?

Love,

Frightenedinmate@2

Braves might have to play a double header or a make up game…next few days it is supposed to rain…looks like it may tonight…

that picture looks as if they’re chasing Paul Newman around the field

and Coors “Home field” advantage got me thinking/researching a bit. Some facts:

“As you move to higher altitudes, air pressure decreases significantly — about 3 percent for every 1000 feet of elevation. So a moving baseball experiences about 16 percent less drag at the 5,000 foot elevation of Denver’s Coors Field than at a sea-level stadium like Boston’s Fenway Park”

“We think of humidity as something that’s added to the air on a hot, muggy day. So you might think that a ball would go farther on a dry day than on a humid day. But for every water molecule that we add to the air, we have to remove a heavier nitrogen or oxygen molecule. Since the addition of humidity actually makes the air less dense, a ball will go farther on a humid day than it will on a dry day.” The changes in air density related to humidity are not large: Compared to dry air at the same temperature and pressure, there’s only about a 1 percent reduction in density for a humidity of 80 percent."

My conclusions: Making the park bigger might result in less HR, but increase in extra base hits to from field coverage problems. Humidity in the air is basically a non factor(see above). The “softer” humidor ball does affect hitters distance, but no affect on pitchers control/movement. Elevation seems to be the key here in Denver, and my take
is, that it does affect pitcher’s ball movement as well as hitter’s distance. So my thinking is that “home grown” pitchers who spend a year or so at Colorado Springs may indeed have an advantage to succeed in Coors. A lot of babble, but something to
discuss on a dreary day if you’re bored.