Compared to its fast pitch counterpart, slow pitch softball often gets overlooked in terms of technique. Yet there’s more to slow pitch pitching than simply lobbing a soft underhand toss toward a salivating slugger. Practicing certain pitching drills improves your accuracy and skill, helping dece...
Tips on playing slowpitch softball: Featuring exclusive slowpitch hitting and pitching theory tables
Getting a slow-pitch softball to break is difficult. Generally, a thrown ball needs some velocity so the spin of the seams on the ball can fight the air, creating a difference of air pressure on one side of the ball, causing the ball to veer off from its original destination. This is ...
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Strategy of Pitching Slow Pitch SoftballMichael IvankovichPaul Johnson
Without being able to wind up, the pitch modified pitchers find it hard to increase their pitching speed to a level anywhere near fast-pitch speeds. But increasing the velocity even a few miles per hour can be productive in striking out more players. A simple exercise to increase velocity in...