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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Tom Dart

Climate crisis causing more home runs in baseball, study suggests

Chicago Cubs' Ian Happ watches after hitting a home run at Wrigley Field in Chicago
Chicago Cubs' Ian Happ watches after hitting a home run at Wrigley Field in Chicago. The stadium is the most likely place for a home run surge, according to researchers. Photograph: Charles Rex Arbogast/AP

Steroids once gave many of baseball’s sluggers a power boost. Now research suggests that today’s home run hitters are seeing their shots turbocharged by the climate crisis.

A study by researchers at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire used data from 100,000 Major League Baseball games and 220,000 individually hit balls to show that higher temperatures increase the number of balls hit out of the park.

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