How to Throw Various Rise Balls

When I am doing my drills, I am working on correct back spin, not necessarily working on throwing a strike so as I do my drills, I don't necessarily want to throw a high rise ball every time, it's actually a good idea to work on flat rise balls. Why is that? Well, when I throw a high pitch, I have plenty of time to get my hand under the ball because on a high pitch, I release it later so we all can throw a good spin then. When I make myself throw a low rise ball, a low drill, I have to work harder to get my hand under the ball quicker and that's actually my benefit and I get good at doing that so that when I do take the rise ball up, it's easy, alright.

You also have different heights of rise balls. The low rise is very difficult but very killer if you can ever master that. The medium rise is good for bun situation, you want to throw but you want some rise spin on it so that it's difficult for them to bun it and then you have your common high rise ball that's at the top of the strikes end.

To throw that low rise, you actually pick a spot in the dirt about half way down that you snap your ball at. We want the ball to have a downward trajectory as if it's going into the dirt and that super, super tight spin takes over and brings the ball into the zone at the very bottom as it's hitting the normal route that I have setup at the knees. That one takes a lot of work, several years to master and it's super killer when you can get it.


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