Focus on the field!
The person playing this position may feel lonely even though they are in the center of the field.
What is the pitcher?
What is a homerun?
This pitch moves up after it is thrown.
What is a rise ball?
In this sport, the ball gets pitched overhand.
What is baseball?
This is when a moving object passes its "oomph" to another object when they collide.
What is transfer of momentum?
This position is far away from the batter but in the middle of the field!
What is center field?
The points I scored when I hit a pop fly and the right fielder caught it so I am out.
What is zero?
This pitch has a high speed and goes right over the plate.
What is a fast ball?
In this sport, the ball gets pitched underhand.
What is softball?
The energy an object has when it is moving.
What is kinetic energy?
The person playing this position is heavy with equipment.
What is the catcher?
What is four.
This pitch falls as it hits home plate.
What is a drop ball?
This person is responsible for calling balls or strikes and also outs in the game.
What is the umpire?
This is the study of how air moves around objects, like an airplane, car or ball and how that movement affects them.
What is aerodynamics?
Batters head here when they get a hit.
What is first base?
The points scored when bases were loaded and I hit a round ball to short stop. I got out at first.
What is one?
This pitch is not thrown very often- it can be hard on the hand.
What is the knuckleball?
This person is in charge of the team and teaches them skills about the sport.
What is the coach?
A force that slows things down- we experienced this when we did our parachute activity.
What is drag?
A box is set up for you to stand in- and you only have 400 milliseconds to react.
What is the batter?
The points scored when two runners were safe at home plate after I ground out to right field.
What is two?
This pitch looks like it is coming right down the middle and then "whoosh!" its nowhere near your bat!
What is a curveball?
These go on the back of baseball and softball cards and tells you about the players skills and history in the sport.
What are statistics?
The angle a baseball or softball flies off the bat compared to the ground. We tried to find the best ones using stomp rockets.
What is launch angle?