Upwards of 1,750 spectators are injured by stray balls (and sometimes even stray bats!) at major league baseball games every year.
To address this issue, and further support MLB's commitment to player and fan safety, Boombang was asked to look into netting solutions that better protected spectators but did not affect their viewing experience.
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To optimize the geometry of the nets, we leveraged a simple optical illusion and extracted an average color value of the field (for pro baseball fields, it’s typically an ashy olive green). By making nets that same color they blend into different parts of the field, which means the nets are effectively camouflaged and recede out of the line of view while maintaining spectator safety.
Then we looked into the dimensions and construction of the nets and expanded the gaps in the netting so that the ball could be stopped from going through, but only just. We also worked with NetSystems’ and their innovative Dyneema Ultracross technology, which is both stronger than kevlar and can be woven without any knots at the corners, which meant thinner but stronger netting material.