April 9, 2008 4:00 AM PDT
After kicking off the 2008 Major League Baseball season on March 25 at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan, the 2007 World Series champion Boston Red Sox returned to the Bay Area to continue the series against the Oakland Athletics.
CNET News.com goes behind the scenes to look at the scientific details that separate baseball's winners from the losers.
(Check out video of News.com's Kara Tsuboi, who spoke with players from the A's about throwing and hitting, and to a scientist who says they'd play better if they had paid attention to their physics class.)
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