Anyone who ever drops a lens, knows the sound – the glass crunch, immediate nausea, thought of drowning, the money disappears. But what happened in Cleveland during today’s wild card matchup takes that familiar fear and multiply it by six figures.
In the first AL Wild Card Game today among Cleveland’s parents and Detroit Tigers, Tariq Skubal ignored his 38th pitch of the day, 100.2 mph fastball of 100.2 mph. The center fielder Gelngel Martínez shut down it, but instead of recocution, there were other balls of the ball, harmlessly. Its next stop: a broadcast camera lens.
The baseball is ruthless on the delicate glass, and when that rock-harde projectile gets a lens, it is like a hammer meeting that is stained glass. Results: frightening.
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And horrific is expensive. Broadcasting crew do not shoot with lenses everyday. They use canon XJ72 or Fuinonon Digipower 76, like glass demons, which spreads from 9.3 mm to more than 700 mm zoom. retail? Canon can use more than $ 60,000. Fuzinone? In the answer of $ 100,000. In other words, that foul ball did not just meet dent. This destroyed the price of a sports car.
Broken cameras are an unfortunate, but baseball does not have unusual casualties. Each season, at least one -two times, one dishonesty or house run extracts a lens. But when it is on Postsen’s national stage, it is especially cruel to see. Thankfully, most of these broadcasting lenses have a protective glass element on the front, so expected, it was the only disadvantage.
So, next time you leave a lens cap and curse your clumsyness, remember this: Somewhere, an MLB broadcast team is getting six data of glass, thanks to a wrong swing.
