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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
Okay, I'll give you that one, but the launch angle and trajetory are quite different, unless you have a Kent Tekulve type pitcher.
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Originally Posted by gotblue?
Steve, I believe that the spin on a "riser" in softball is in the same direction as, and not the opposite of, that of a fastball thrown with an overhand motion.
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Not being a softball person, I'd really be interested in how you throw a softball underhand, with any velocity, and get
backspin on it, as with an overhand thrown fastball. If you did, it would work against making the ball rise, but since the ball is being thrown in a upward direction from the start, the spin is overcome by inertia. And a rising Softball is not the same thing as a rising Fastball, which is thrown downward, and then rises.