Warm air is thinner than cold air, so when it’s hot outside, a baseball can fly farther, according to a study from Dartmouth, which analyzed over 100,000 major league games.
As major league baseball gets back underway, aWarm air is thinner than cold air, so when it’s hot outside, a baseball can fly farther. Dartmouth researchers analyzed more than 100,000 major league games between 1962 and 2019, and found about 1% of recent home runs can be linked to global warming.
The researchers say temperature hasn’t been the most important factor in the increase in home runs — there are other changes, like differences in the construction of bats and balls, and the adoption of technology to optimize a batter’s hits. Some ballparks — like those that have domes, to keep them insulated from temperature changes, or those that host a lot of nighttime games — had less fluctuation in home runs based on temperature changes.
“When I go to a baseball game, I'll be thinking about the ways in which there might be more home runs in that game. There also might be risks to people at the ballpark from extreme heat, for example,” he said. “So it just makes me more conscious of the ways that climate change has sort of snaked its way into every part of our lives.”
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