Rise ball string?

[Shawn]

The flight of a rise is low to high. The ball slowly starts to flatten out creating a hump over the bat. That’s a rise out of the zone.

If I try to throw under a string it would be a low rise. What about practicing a high rise with a string? How far in front would ideally set the string for both low and high and do you practice different heights with the string?

 

[radness]

Like the replay video
with detail added.

Definitely makes the rise ball more useful to be able to throw it at different heights with location to the sides.

 

[HighStrung]

We practice the rise at three different levels. 2 strings are set up approx 10' in front of the plate, string 1 is set up around 20" above the ground, string 2 is set up just below DD's sternum (she's 5'5"). For us, a level 1 rise goal is hitting the bottom string, level 2 goal is hitting or just below the second string, level 3 rise is the out of the zone pitch above the top string but close enough to make a batter chase. In games, she throws mainly level 2 & 3's but has occasionally been asked to throw at level 1, which has had a majority of batters watching because they were expecting it to drop out of the zone.

 

[Shawn]

We practice the rise at three different levels. 2 strings are set up approx 10' in front of the plate, string 1 is set up around 20" above the ground, string 2 is set up just below DD's sternum (she's 5'5"). For us, a level 1 rise goal is hitting the bottom string, level 2 goal is hitting or just below the second string, level 3 rise is the out of the zone pitch above the top string but close enough to make a batter chase. In games, she throws mainly level 2 & 3's but has occasionally been asked to throw at level 1, which has had a majority of batters watching because they were expecting it to drop out of the zone.

Thanks.