If she has several pitches that she can control. And she is lacking in speed. Why aren’t you working on speed instead of other grips?
If she has several pitches that she can control. And she is lacking in speed. Why aren’t you working on speed instead of other grips?
If she can throw a palm up curve she's not too far away from a rise. For backspin with the curve grip the palm needs to face 3B at release instead of facing up. This is where a lot of pitchers have problems, without the support of the palm under the ball they lose their grip and the ball slips out. The fatty grip puts more fingers under the ball for support which allows the palm to face 3B at release.
If you're only using the rise as a pitch to change the eye level, why not just go with a ramp ball at the top of the zone? With her accuracy, it sounds like she'd hardly ever miss "low". So they either swing under it, or take it for a ball. Either way, it's changed the batters eye level, which was the goal, and lets the drop / change / curve be the "out" pitch.
The reason your fatty grip rise is high. Is the hand, and fingers are under the ball more. The up and out are her releasing late pulling up and acrossed. Tell her to get more aggressive pulling in on the back of circle. It will flatten circle out. Releasing ball flatter, and may increase her speed when you go back to normal grip.Palm up curve is good. Sometimes she even gets a little rise on it or doesn't drop.
She throws one out of three rise balls that are above average but it is normally to high. The other two aren't as good but is a little above the zone and works currently. From her- when I throw a good one they don't swing (to high). I know it is tilt but if she doesn't throw a good one with correct tilt it says hit me. LOL.
Fatty grip rise for some reason are all high and outside and looks like curve action. I think she is just thinking to much. Not worth the time at the moment, IMO.