Daily News | For Phillies fans, it’s a red-sweater day, and pitchers should like the forecast
Having shaken the storminess out of its system on Thursday, the atmosphere over Citizens Bank Park should be at its near-best behavior on Friday when the Phillies host their first playoff game in 11 years.The sky should be a classic October deep blue with minimal cloud traffic, said Matthew Brudy, meteorologist with the National Weather Service Office in Mount Holly.
Dryness makes the air denser: Water molecules tend to lighten the air since they are lighter than other components of the atmosphere, said D.J. Pisano, a lifetime baseball connoisseur who is chairman of the physics and astronomy department at West Virginia University. By Major League protocol, home plate is positioned looking toward the northeast so that the batter is facing away from the sun. Late Friday afternoon, the sun will be spending the end of its day shining over the roof on the third-base side.As for how the late-day infield shadows might affect the hitters, a detailed analysis byin 2019 found that the shadows had almost no impact on walks and whiffs.
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