How far could Elly De La Cruz hit a ball and still get himself out?
What Happened
You guys have forced my hand. You've asked a million times, how high and far could Ellie de la Cruz hit a ball and still track it down himself if he was to sprint from first base.
Why This Matters
Elly De La Cruz is so athletic and fast that people won't stop asking the internet's dumbest question: what if he hit a ball so hard he could catch it himself? Jomboy finally caved and actually did the math with real footage to find out.
120K views landed this absolute niche experiment at #1128 all-time, proving that even weird hypotheticals about young stars hit different.
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Who / What Is Involved
Players: Elly De La Cruz.
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Click timestamps to jump to that momentFine, I'm doing it. You guys have forced
my hand. You've asked a million times,
how high and far could Ellie de la Cruz
hit a ball and still track it down
himself if he was to sprint from first
base. I found this shot, a swinging
bunt. So, that's kind of his sprint
speed first to home. We're going to use
that. I found the footage I just showed
of that short fly ball to shallow right
field. It's like 120 ft or something.
And now, this is him running and the
play. But as you could see, I I overlaid
them, but he kind of slows down. He
slows down after he hits first. So now I
got to do science by editing backed by
nobody trusted by few. And I got to I'm
looping some of his fastest steps in the
middle here so we can get a better
gauge. And also, he's running straight
to the base here. Now, in this scenario,
he's going to be running straight to the
spot where he catches the ball. Let's
watch it from the start again. All
right, now it's overlaid. He's running.
The ball's in the air. We're gonna loop
it. He's still there. He's okay. That's
it. The ball comes down there and he's
there. Now, if he was running straight
at it, does he Willie Maze? Does he make
a diving basket catch? I don't know. I
think maybe this is science by heading.
I need someone that does science by math
to really tell us what's the hang time
needed that gets the farthest distance
that Ellie de la Cruz could hit a ball
and take off from home plate and track
it down and make the catch. I think he
could do this one if he put his heart to
it. If after he swung he knew that's
what his mission was, I think he could
track this one down. But that's as far
as I can take this question and
everyone's been dying to get an answer
to it. So now I got to put it out to
other people that know the maths and
help me