re: The last time Tennessee won a baseball series in Fayetteville

Baseball is probably the most superstitious sport there is, and while I am not superstitious, I am a little stitious.

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2001? So these players were not even alive the last time the Vols won a series at Arkansas.

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The coaches of neither team were alive the last time Brian Kelly won a major bowl game or a NC.

Edit: Actually, no one on Earth was alive the last time Brian Kelly won a major bowl game or NC.

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Probably because it's embarrassing to televise a SEC series from a t-ball park.

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It's a good point. When you look at the field dimensions, and how much bigger the field at Baum-Walker Stadium is...it totally makes sense:

Left field - Both 320
Left Center - 15' further
Center - 10' further
Right Center - 5' further
Right Field - Both 320

So, how does the outfield fence height correlate to distance in regards to necessary trajectory for a homerun? This article helps with the physics.



Fence Height also plays into things. Lindsey Nelson Stadium's fence is 10'5 feet high. I can't find info on the height of the fence at Baum-Walker...but it would appear to be around 8' tall.

Using the formula h(t) = -½gt² + v0t + h0 you can calculate the minimum height required for a ball to clear a wall with a parabolic trajectory and an initial height of 3'. In the equation:

h(t) = ball height at time t
g = acceleration due to gravity
vo = initial vertical velocity
h0 = initial height

So, to know when the ball reaches the fence height you solve for t using the formula: t = (-v0 ± v(v0² - 4(-½g)(h0 - h(t)))) / (2(-½g)).

Actually, backing into it to make it easier to visualize, a HR over the left center fence at Baum-Walker must be just over 8' high at 375' from the point of contact, and at Lindsey-Nelson it must be just over 10.5' at 360 feet from the point of contact. Let's use the same angle of departure and calculate the different velocity needed for each field to have a HR at the point where the outfield wall distance varies the most.

Baum-Walker, where the fence height is 8' and distance (x) is 375' - 8=3+0.2679(375)-16.1(375)(375) /(0.9330(v)(v)) just trying to make it clearer, since it's hard to put in subscript and superscript on the message boards...

So, for Baum-Walker a HR with this trajectory would need to have an exit speed of 164 f/s or 111.8 mph

Now for Lindsey Nelson Stadium, where the fence height is 10.5' and the distance is 360', 10.5=3+0.2679(360)-16.1(360)(360) /(0.9330(v)(v)).

For Lindsey Nelson, a HR with the same trajectory would need to exit at 162.5 f/s or 110.8 mph.

A HR at Baum-Walker would leave the bat almost exactly 1 mph faster than one from Lindsey Nelson...

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so they’re due

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Especially since OP decided to jinx the Hogs.