If you’re reading this, you managed to survive yet another wild weekend of Cubs baseball. Friday’s game was particularly anomalous, with both teams combining to score 21 runs in the 7th and 8th innings. It was the first time in Wrigley Field’s history that 10 or more runs were scored by each team in two innings of play, and we’re talking 110 years of history. Rather than get further into the overall outcomes of any individual games, I want to look specifically at one batted-ball outcome.
Despite a wealth of information and familiarity, there remains a not-insignificant portion of the population that rejects the idea of measuring exit velocity and launch angle.