Unfortunately, there is no legitimate pitch thrown with bullet spin.
I beg to differ...a "meatball" is a legitimate pitch thrown with bullet spin, and my DD has thrown more than her fair share of them!
Unfortunately, there is no legitimate pitch thrown with bullet spin.
I beg to differ...a "meatball" is a legitimate pitch thrown with bullet spin, and my DD has thrown more than her fair share of them!
WOW 2 pitchers....sounds fun !!! Speaking of Fun... Curves & Screws are fun. Started out around 10U teaching DD both. The idea was to make her feel like a magician, & she did.
Here is a couple things I found very helpful...
-When I started out early, only build on what I'd keep. Speed increases with size, and you know, they grow up fast. Your going to need off speed that breaks 2 planes. With DD I was aware of catching a hitch, when learning CU's. I knew how hard it was to fix... so I stayed out of it. Besides she could hit them, she wasn't impressed.
-Because she could always see the ball real good hitting, the best thing to teach is why to throw a SB/C first. I did that by pitching them to her. Even now @ 14, I have her hitting BB, on a machine, that can move the ball in & out, but it can't move them as much as she can. She would hate to face a pitcher like herself.
-Really the ball only has to move the width of the bat, or out of the sweet spot. The goal now becomes... keeping your corners from getting drilled, and spreading the pop-ups around to all the fielders.
Here she is taking a little pop out of a big bat. She was guesting, and didn't have her #57 on. But the 57 showed up, on 1/100 seconds form release to plate. The team had 10 double plays, in three games that day...
glad she got 1 like the big girls :{)) Same speed...same pitch she learned in 10U
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Good Luck with the Newbie
I beg to differ...a "meatball" is a legitimate pitch thrown with bullet spin,
My daughter is throwing a beautiful screwball at 12. Her screwball is absolutely a 9-3 at about 47 mph.
Cool clips! Is that you sitting on the bucket with the purple shirt on??? If so the yawn as your dd makes a double play is funny to me. LOL
the only deviation to this is pure velocity.
Abbott seems to get away with placement, velocity, and a very "bullety" ball...
70mph sure helps...
I'd have to see a true 9-3 screwball with enough rotation and velocity to make a difference to believe it. Can I believe there's a martian out there that can do it? Sure. Most of what I have seen called a screwball is a bulletspin pitch with a slight nose down yaw that creates a subtle inward "drift". The pitch for most part, based on what I have seen, relies on the smoke and mirrors of angles. Not to say it's not effective.... just not buying the 9-3 gig. I'd love to see someone throw it with a striped ball and show me a nice crisp "flat" line.
Understood. I will get video footage at her next lesson. She absolutely doesn't have hump in the screwball pitch.