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on the journey
My daughters pitching coach is teaching her the drop ball. It’s a turn over drop. She is having a hard time not leaning over to throw the pitch and ends up releasing the ball high. Any help would be appreciated
Have been trying to have DD work on her change up which ‘style’ doesn’t necessarily matter but having her try and have all
Mechanics the same until 9 o’clock palm up on the backside. Right after 9 o’clock trying to have her start IR early to be able to ‘throw the glass of water’ change up as her hand turns and shows the back of the hand to catcher just after release.
I mention this because in doing this, when she misses the change up it usually resulted with something in between fastball 7-1 yaw style pitch and a ‘later’ release with near perfect 12-6 spin but not enough to get around to the change up.
It is terrible as a bucket dad thinking your DD is trying to pitch a 45 mph change up and zinging in a 60 mph drop ball.
She never had much of a drop ball until trying to get back to her original change up form. The happy result of not getting the change was an awesome drop. Created by a little early form IR. I never knew how to teach the drop so it was just an afterthought. Work on fast and change. Now her drop is her favorite pitch. Oh well sometimes better to be lucky than good.