List of worst pitches for Bucket moms/dads to catch

Perfect Circle · Aug 12, 2016

Dah Drop

go4fpsb · Aug 12, 2016

Totally agree about the drop ball. One of my best pitchers throws a really good drop curve. I cringe when it's time to practice that one. Like Coach James I go side saddle to protect my "self". And I have gone over backwads of the bucket several time, they find that quite amusing.

chinamigarden · Aug 12, 2016

When my dd was learning the drop curve. Sometimes it would just curve, other times it would just drop, the. It would go straight, the. It would drop and curve... Sometimes the movement was subtle, other times fall off the table type movement. It's the pitch that made me buy catchers gear.

schwabach · Aug 12, 2016

I find the drop ball hardest because it so often comes in on my toes and bounces into me.

Curve balls are easy to catch if you watch them all the way in. The sudden movement of a curve ball is an optical illusion as explained by this article:

WATCH: The optical illusion that makes it so hard to hit a curveball - CBSSports.com

This, of course, is why a tight spin is such a wonderful thing.

JAD · Aug 12, 2016

As my DD has gotten bigger, faster, stronger I have become older, slower, and blinder....not a good combination! My two least favorite pitches to catch are a drop ball and a rise ball. Drop balls have a tendency to bounce, and I learned the hard way to move the plate to avoid the front lip that can cause the ball to jump up and bite me! Riseballs are difficult because often my glove crosses in front of my eyes and I temporarily loose site of the ball.

FP26 · Aug 12, 2016

marriard said:
Drop ball... sometimes it just isn't where I thought it was going to be - and it hits you. A great curve tends to just not get caught.

It has got worse because my DD's catchers now come out and catch her lessons 90% of the time and we do a lot of live BP so her practicing pitching is often within the team setting - where we have catchers as well. So I am not catching her as much as I used to.

So she throws harder and with more spin - and I am not used to catching her as I once was. Not a good combination.

Right there with you!! I used to catch for her several times per week, now it can be several weeks in between opportunities. DD has been working on a riseball for several months. During the spring it was nothing more than a high fastball. A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to catch for her. When she got to riseballs the very first pitch tipped off the edge of my glove and took the hat off my head. Very close to being a bad day for me

I was not expecting it.

quincy · Aug 12, 2016

CU, I need to get off my bucket and retrieve it from the other field.

grcsftbll · Aug 12, 2016

This is such a scary read for me. I can barely catch my DD's fastball. Plain old fastball and she's 9. Poor kid. I imagine by this time next year my catching career will be completely over.

quincy · Aug 12, 2016

DW tried to C DD, 1 pitch she was done and got the kid next store and gave him a few bucks.

(HC this year lasted 2 pitches then figured out it was a bad idea.)

Phathead · Aug 12, 2016

Well looks like drop ball is in the lead. It took some adjusting but with the drop with exception of hitting lip of plate I got used to it. Looks like curve or curve variations are second for most but top of my list with rise in third. As far as the one poster about chasing the change, I would say everyone can count that one every pitch when they start learning it.

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