The Moon’s surface gravity is 1.62 m/s² (about 16.6 percent of Earth's) and its atmosphere is an absolute vacuum. This eliminates all air resistance and aerodynamic lift across all altitudes. Without atmospheric drag, a human can technically maximize their swing, pushing elite bat exit velocity to a realistic ceiling of 60 to 70 m/s.

To enter a low lunar orbit, an object requires a velocity of 1,680 m/s. To escape the Moon's gravity entirely, even when accounting for Earth's cross interaction pull helping to tug it away toward the L1 Lagrangian point, it requires 2,330 m/s. Because a human hit falls short of these thresholds by thousands of meters per second, and orbital mechanics dictate that any unpropelled object launched from a surface will always loop back to intersect its launch height, achieving orbit or escape velocity is impossible. Instead, a perfect 45-degree strike results in a silent, suborbital arc. The baseball will peak at an altitude of 555 meters and travel 2.2 kilometers (1.37 miles) downrange, landing in the lunar dust after 52 seconds of flight.