pitching uphill?

Anyone ever try it? I had a stroke of genius that by pitching uphill it might help her with some posture improvements and lo and behold she dropped a good 3-5 mph so then I had the Wiley Coyote Supra genius idea that by having her practice on a slight incline it will make her pitching on flat ground a little faster. DD is not pleased with me right now.

sounds like it may work. when i saw the title i thought it had something to do with pitching on a field that has a mound.

colin said:

sounds like it may work. when i saw the title i thought it had something to do with pitching on a field that has a mound.

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I thought it was about some of the fields we see on the So Cal TB circuit. I've seen home base both significantly above and below the circle.

actually when i think about it, the fields with the mound, they are really pitching downhill because the plate is on the front side of the mound.


they don't actually have a plate, just a chalk line.

Have never tried uphill but have don downhill to help with frontside resisitence - and by downhill I mean a graded drive way not really sloping hill.

We play on some fields that pitchers actually do pitch up hill. They are turf and sloped to the outfield. The slope is very noticeable.

JJ, you are one creative dude.....

Seriously, these are not bad ideas. As others have indicated you never know what kind of pitching surface you are going to run into......giant landing hole, sandpit, hard as a rock, wet, landing hole with downhill slope, landing hole with uphill slope.......or hitter variations such as; up in the front of the box, back of the box, tall girl, short girl, crowding the plate, hitter that moves in the box every pitch or ball variations; heavy ball, light ball, wet ball, scuffed up ball, high seams, low seams, slippery dusty ball. How about weather variations: raining, hot, cold, windy, cloudy, dark. Oh and do I need to mention umpire variations?

A pitcher has a lot of variables to deal with so it is great to put them in a discomfort zone to see if they can adapt.

Dang Rick... you just fed JJ way too much info... that poor kid is going to go through hell now...

javasource said:

Dang Rick... you just fed JJ way too much info... that poor kid is going to go through hell now...

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Seriously...I was halfway through reading his post and was trying to figure out how must dry ice I would need to simulate fog. The bad umpire is easy, I just let her sister call balls and strikes while catching her....NO ONE has a tighter strike zone than a little sister with an axe to grind.

now I have this premonition of JJ heading calmly out to the pitchers plate,
with a 200' garden hose in tow,
humming 'Maniac' (Flashdance soundtrack circa 1984)...