Royals' Bobby Witt Jr. hit a homer with a negative-6 degree launch angle
This should be just about impossible.
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When you picture a home run in your mind's eye, there are a couple possibilities. There's the majestic, towering, light tower-scraping blast. And there's the frozen rope line drive.
There might even be the one that barely ekes it's way over the wall at all. And hey, maybe you just thought of an inside-the-park home run. But what you almost certainly didn't picture is a ground ball.
Kansas City Royals superstar Bobby Witt Jr. hit a home run on a grounder on Saturday. MORE: Why MLB's pink bat tradition works so well With all the data available to us now, we know that Witt's homer came on a launch angle of negative-six degrees -- meaning it traveled immediately at a downward angle when it was hit.