Japanese baseball player attempts to hit 186 MPH fastball (Video)
By Dan Zinski
In case you’re wondering, no, you can’t hit a 186 MPH fastball.
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The fact that Japanese slugger Takashi Yamasaki even attempted it is a testament to the man’s courage. He stood in there while someone shot a baseball right past him at 186 MPH.
I wouldn’t have the nerve to stand within fifty feet of that. If the pitching machine is firing a baseball that fast, it shouldn’t even be referred to as a pitching machine. At that point, the machine is basically a cannon.
That isn’t a machine for pitching baseballs, it’s a machine for pitching death.
Yamasaki is so brave, he even tries to bunt a 186 MPH fastball. He doesn’t come any closer to bunting it than he does to hitting it with a regular swing.
At 186 MPH, Yamasaki, a paid professional, can’t even see the baseball going by him, much less put a swing on it.
So what have we learned today? We’ve learned that human beings of 2014 are not capable of hitting baseballs traveling 186 MPH. Maybe humans of the future will be able to pull off the feat. We need a little more evolution or we need to become cyborgs. Either one.