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until the Baseball is damaged or a home run then they keep using it.

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Q: Why arw baseballs only used for 4-5 pitches in each game?
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It because when there throwing the ball160kmph even a little bit of dirt could ruin the pitch.


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How is basedball IP calculated?

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How many baseballs are used in a season?

I believe my math is faulty in my first response below. The following is the workup for the estimate of total baseballs used in a Regular Season in the MLB:2010 average pitches per team per game.....146lifespan of a Baseball in pitches.........................7games in the Regular Season........................162number of teams in the league........................30balls per team per game..................................21 = 146 ÷ 7balls used in Reg Seas by team..................3,379 = 21 x 162balls used in Reg Seas by all teams......101,366 = 30 x 3,379more than anyone can count I'm sure, lol, but as a guess, I'll say around half a million if not moreIt has been calculated that the average life-span of a baseball is 7 pitches. The average pitch count in a game is 285. So a good guess is about 41 baseballs to a game. There are 162 games in a season, so almost 6,596 per team, per year. There are 30 teams, so that's approximately 197,871.43 baseballs used per season. This only accounts for regular season games.This number does not include pre-season games, the All Star break and the post-season games, including the World Series.


Why does an incoming pitcher get only 8 warm up pitches?

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Why can the average major league baseball only be used in 7 games before it gets ruined?

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