The climate bump is small — but a statistically significant contributor when one considers that Aaron Judge only beat the American League's single-season home run record by one.
. “It says nothing of the effect of things like heat stroke or heat mortality — on players and patrons and staff.”about a potential connection between warming temperatures and home runs, including a baseball-loving graduate student in Mankin’s lab named Christopher Callahan who launched the project. The reasoning is that as air heats up, its molecules get excited and start pushing away from each other more and more.
These Statcast cameras, as they’re known, meant that the scientists could account for other variables that might influence the chances of a home run, such as the skill of the pitcher or hitter. Their analysis could directly compare a ball leaving a bat at the same angle and speed on a warm night versus a cold night.
The pattern held steady for all open-air stadiums and when ballparks with retractable roofs weren’t covered. And as one might expect, air temperatures had an insignificant effect on domed stadiums. That’s not to say Judge, a once-in-a-generation talent, owes climate change for his record. For one, other factors played a big role in the recent home run boom,
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