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Baseball

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3. Well yeah, it's hard enough to make contact as it is

Fri Jul 3, 2026, 10:56 AM

19 hrs ago

0.25 seconds: the amount of time a batter has to decide to swing at a thrown ball after it has left the pitchers hand.

One quarter of a second.

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Well yeah, it's hard enough to make contact as it is Auggie 19 hrs ago #3