Baseball is harder to play then tennis!

"For instance, the batter comes up to bat and the pitcher throw a 100 mph fast ball. Ok, the next pitch is a 76 mph change up. He can most defiantly hit the ball." "Yes because it is an entirely different pitch. In tennis the change of speed is during one service, one ball. You are talking about two seperate pitches, I was stating it would be impossible to hit in the same pitch." It is the same concept as the ball slowing down. you will be expecting another 100 mph fastball. Then you have to adjust to a adjust to a slower pitch. "The batter has to expect much much more that what a person returning a serve would have to. They have to react to so many different pitches. Change up, fastball, curveball, slider, splitter, knuckle ball, circle change, slurve." All you just did was name the types of pitches. No pitchers use every single pitch. Roger Clemens, one of the greatest pitchers of all time used just two pitches when he came into the league. These pitches were the fastball and a breaking ball. Later in his career Clemens did begin to use a splitter, still totaling just three pitches. Not the eight you just mentioned.http://en.wikipedia.org...... http://boston.redsox.mlb.com... Dice K has 6 pitches. Because of his variety it makes it extremely hard to hit. He has a four seam fastball, two seam, cutter, curve, slider, and change up. This variety makes you really wonder what will be coming. Therefore he will mix his pitches making you guess what is coming. He would throw you a fastball, then hit you with a curve, then keep mixed it up where you don’t know what will be coming. Because of this it will make it much harder to hit a baseball than a tennis ball. "Not every ball will go in the strike zone so you have to thing to yourself if it is a ball or strike which will take extreme skill. You dont have to think if the ball could possibly be in or out. The lines judges tell you if its out." I don't even know what to say about this. Line judges act the same as the umpire. During the run of play both a tennis player and baseball player must make a decision and then the line judge or umpire make their official call. So I'm not sure what you were going for there. In baseball the ball can be called a strike when it is outside of the strike zone. In tennis there is replay if I am not mistaken. Also it is much harder to judge if the ball is a strike in baseball. Just your head is facing the way the ball is coming from which makes it harder to see. In tennis your whole body is facing the right direction. You also will have much less time to react like I had stated in my previous argument. Now on to the argument about catching the ball. You don’t have to catch the ball in tennis so you cant contradict this. Therefore making this one of my strongest arguments. It is hard to catch a ball that is a fly ball in the outfield. You have to be able to judge the ball weather it well go over your head or if it will fall short. The average bat speed in the MLB is between 100 and 110. Now a ball being thrown 90 mph will jump off that bat really fast. Now think how hard it would be to catch a ground ball. You need to also be able to catch the ball with a backhand, running up on it, waiting on it, bare handing it, and when someone throws it to you. Also you have to throw a ball from 5 to 127 feet and 3 and 3/8ths inches in time to get a runner out. You have to have a lot of power the throw someone out from the third baseline to first. Or from behind the plate to second in time to throw out a runner sealing to second. Throwing a baseball with power and pace is hard to do if you haven’t done it a long time. It can be hard to make throws in time to get the runner out. Time in baseball is measured by the 60 yard dash which would be a sprint to 2nd. The average time in the MLB is 6.7 – 6.9 seconds. That means you have about 3 and a half seconds from when the ball is hit to get the runner out at first. You have to field the ball, come up to make the throw, and beat that time in around 3 seconds. Very hard. You also had no argument about the fact that a baseball player has to cover more surface area to field a ball. Because of all of these reasons there is no other vote but then saying baseball is a harder sport to play.