Here’s a map of yesterday’s perfect game pitched by Mark Buehrle — only the 18th in MLB history. Highlighted is defensive replacement Dewayne Wise’s perfect game-saving catch over the wall in the 9th inning.
Here the same, as displayed by MLB’s Gameday, for which the initial pixel coordinates were collected.
The conversion from the pixel-based coordinates used [...]
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I’m really digging the Boston Globe’s recent visualization tracking Manny Ramirez’s hunt for 500 home runs (reached on May 31st).
This cool app answers seemingly every question about when and how Manny hit his home runs…except for the one I’m most interested in: where on the plate is Manny most likely to hit a [...]