What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light?

[Lumpy]

I’ve been racking my brain trying to come up with an XKCD-worthy question to submit. Anyone else sent in suggestions?

[chrisk]

@TokyoPlayer

[nitpick]There is a glaring error in either the story or the illustration.

The illustration does not show the batter in a bunt stance, which, with the exception of a really wild pitch, would be the only way for the ball to hit the bat.[/nitpick]

At that point he’s talking about the debris cloud, not the core of the baseball. I don’t find it implausible that the cloud has expanded enough by this point that part of it hits the baseball bat.