Fire Gardy

In case anyone wants to feel hopeful about Dickey in Chicago tonight, here’s an interesting take on knuckleballers in cold weather, from intelligent reader thrylos98:

There is another physical factor that affects a knuckleball more than the wind: Air density. The colder the temperature, the denser the air, the less the spin. And throwing a knuckleball with no spin, is like throwing a brick to the batters.

The game is just starting, and Dickey hasn’t taken the mound yet. Hopefully that’s exactly how it works tonight.

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