Context & Scientific Basis
On line drives hit over 100 mph, a baseball travels at ~150 feet per second. When Arizona Diamondbacks shortstop Geraldo Perdomo was struck in the field, human physiological thresholds—visual saccadic recognition (180ms), neural motor activation (120ms), and biomechanical limb movement—were compressed into a fraction of a second. This simulator applies standard MLB aerodynamic drag coefficients ($C_d \approx 0.31$) to model true deceleration and spatial reaction windows.
Breakdown of involuntary neural processing vs available glove travel time:
At 122 feet, a 106 mph line drive gives Geraldo Perdomo approximately 306 milliseconds to position his glove after basic neural reaction. A 5-foot backward depth adjustment increases reaction cushion by +42 ms.