Ball constantly going down and right

I have a pitcher (right handed) and her pitches usually go down and to the right? Are there any drills or mechanics I can tell her to work on to correct this?

Maybe her hip is getting in her way?

If it is a consistent issue why not have her practice throwing the ball outside, for DD that means her front foot lands a little to the left of the power line.

If you feel her mechanics are good it sounds like a release point issue to me. When I have a pitcher with this type of issue this is the drill / practice I use. I have a bucket of various weighted balls, 5oz, 8oz, whiffle and regular balls. I set them up 15 feet away from a tarp that has a X painted on it about 30 high in the center of the tarp. This is in the batting cage we use. I line them up with the X being center of the power line which would be center of home plate. They can start with throwing 9 o'clock go to 12 o'clocks move through their complete warm up routine until they are throwing full motion then I rotate through the various weighted balls which reinforces one release point. They learn they can't throw totally by feel but need to find their brush point release in order to hit that X. You'll get some crazy pitches especially with the whiffle until they become disciplined to use the brush to trigger a release.

Is the ball breaking down and to right or is she chucking it there?

Anthony Vertuccio said:

I have a pitcher (right handed) and her pitches usually go down and to the right? Are there any drills or mechanics I can tell her to work on to correct this?

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If you have some video it would be helpful in troubleshooting. Barring that, you need to see if her hip is coming through before the arm and pushing her arm to the right as noted above. Another thing that can happen is the arm can get stuck behind the back on the downswing causing it to have an in to out path that can cause inside pitches. Her hand position at release being too far inside the ball can also cause inside pitches.

Front view video of a few pitches can make diagnosing this very easy.

As for the low part of the equation if she has good brush interference and is releasing at contact then either her weight is stacked too much on her front foot or her torso is leaning over her legs at release.

As for drills, it really depends on what the cause is.

My ignorance has no limit:

If I recall the age of your players they are starting to get hips. You can get away with some things when they do not have hips.

Lead with the pinky.

riseball said:

Is the ball breaking down and to right or is she chucking it there?

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That was my thought. Because of it is the former, I'm not sure I see a problem, that's a pretty nasty pitch right there. Sort of a drop-screw.

If it is the later, then yeah as others have said, probably some sort of mechanical adjustment needed.

If she is IR'ing and maybe new to IR'ing, down and to the right is an early release. The good is that if this is it and you can correct it, she should gain speed as she moves over the plate.