It is less than 18 hours before the Mariner's 2019 season begins in Tokyo against their division rival, the Oakland A's. All the dewy-eyed speculation of the off-sesson and spring soon to be replaced by the cold hard stare of reality. Will this reimagined team of Dipoto's win or will his vision evaporate before our eyes into just another disappointing season? I'm willing to keep the dream alive for awhile.
First pitch at 2:35 a.m. PDT. Oakland is the home team, wonder how that was determined?
Another injury, a disturbing one, reliever Shawn Armstrong on the IL for ten: an onlique strain. He looked good this spring. The bullpen doesn't need any more instability.
Had a nice note from Dominic Snyder who questioned my estimate of Haniger's home run traveling 600 feet. He's probably right... I confessed in advance to dubious geometry. Here's my revised guess. I didn't take into account that a home run, any base hit for that matter, is not a perfect arc. The speed at which the ball comes off the bat begins to decelerate as it moves forward. Upon reaching its peak, the ball's forward progress declines at an increasing pace... in other words the ball slows down moving forward and, as gravity acts on it, begins to drop faster.
I guess the ball had traveled 300 feet by the top of it's arc. It surely wouldn't have traveled another 300, so I'm guessing Haniger hit a home run in the 550, maybe less range. Still an impressive poke.
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