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Baseball home runs could increase by 10% in the next 80 years. Here's why
Home runs are becoming more frequent in Major League Baseball (MLB) due to climate change, a new study finds. "There's a very clear physical mechanism at play in which warmer temperatures reduce the density of air," study co-author Justin Mankin(opens in new tab), an assistant professor of geography at Dartmouth University in New Hampshire, said in the statement. "Baseball is a game of ballistics, and a batted ball is going to fly farther on a warm day."
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