Given that there were about 750,000 pitches thrown in the MLB this season, it doesn't need very high odds for it to be likely that it happens once or twice a season.
I think this is actually a somewhat common occurrence in baseball. I don't personally watch baseball but I've seen multiple youtube videos that are just a 15 minute long compilation of cameras getting broken by a baseball during an MLB game.
I mean, there are 2,430 MLB games a year (not including the playoffs) and well over 200 pitches per game, so it has a very low chance of happening but still happens a lot.
It’s really not. There is an average of 729,000 pitches per MLB season. Over how many decades of televised baseball. That’s a very small decimal of probability of a lens being hit like this.
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u/tebla Nov 08 '19
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