- Aug 21, 2008
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My experience is as someone learns to pull the ball down and lead with the pinky, they'll typically develop a low and inside miss, often right at the batters thigh, especially when converting from pushing the ball. Of course I'll defer to your experience, but I've seen it happen enough times to believe it's part of the learning process.
Well, in MY experience it boils down to this (and this is all on my video so now sales will go down 100%!!) High/Low pitches is timing issues. Inside and out are mechanics. Outside pitches (RH pitcher to RH hitter) means she pulled her shoulder offline at delivery (typically), inside pitches means she's either already closed the hips forcing the ball to go AROUND the hips giving it an inside trajectory OR her arm is a long ways from her body and not tight (or what some call brushing past). She she gets the ball through the hips, not around them LITERALLY forcing her arm to "brush" her stomach, the ball will NOT go inside... it will go where the shoulder is pointed.
I've seen COUNTLESS girls with whip but, no sense of body direction or body awareness. Which leads to the old saying, what good is throwing 100 mph if you can't control it?
Best tool for fixing that inside pitch is the WINDMILL TRAINER. It can be bought in stores or through my website store. Google the name and you'll see the video of how it helps correct inside pitches.
Bill