I guarantee you most people think that softball and baseball are practically the same thing, but to be honest, there is only a few aspects that are the same. For example, a softball is bigger and yellow, and a baseball is little and white. This actually factors into a lot of different things like distance from the pitchers mound to the home plate, distances between bases, and the length of the whole field. With a smaller ball, the ball is going to be thrown a lot faster. This means that a baseball pitchers mound is a lot farther away from home plate than softball. For baseball it is 60.5 feet, and for softball it is 43 feet. Yes that is quite a difference, but if you think about it, a pitch going 70 MPH from 43 feet away is the equivalent to 98 MPH from 60.5 feet (those are scary fast!). Also, since the ball is smaller in baseball, the ball will get hit harder. The baseline for baseball is 90 feet, and softball is 60 feet (making softball much faster paced but that's beside the point). I think baseball is harder in the aspect of covering ground. The outfield is ridiculously huge and I give props to the outfielders in baseball. The downside in having such a huge field is that the game is a lot slower. You have to be really quick when fielding a ground ball in the infield because even a moderately fast girl is going to beat out the throw. In baseball, the infielders could take a lunch break and still throw the batter out.
Another huge difference to these games is that in baseball, a pitch is thrown over hand, and in softball, it is thrown underhand. There are advantages to throwing underhand, like making the ball rise( hardest pitch to hit of ever let me tell you!). Baseball pitchers can't throw a rise ball.
As far as rules go, they are exactly the same. So you could definitely argue that baseball is harder than softball or vice versa, but they are built off of the same idea. Plus we all know softball is harder so there is not argument needed here!
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