Can a thrown baseball rise?


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With an overhand pitching motion a baseball is not going to rise. If a guys throws sidearm or submarine style then yes, it can rise. Its not the ball that causes it to have a rising motionfor a softball pitcher, its the fact that they throw underhand. For a baseball pitcher throwing over the top the natural motion of the throw causes it to drop instead of rising.

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Of course. At some point it will start to drop, but of course it can rise.

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There is, of course, a rising fastball, which certainly implies that it can rise. And a ball thrown from the outfield almost always is thrown upwards. But I assume the question does relate to pitching; it is the spin of the ball and resulting friction that creates the rising motion.

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I assume you're asking about a "rising fastball." Technically, this is impossible, as, if it's thrown overhand, it would require a ball to defy gravity (and the force of the throw) to rise. Simply, it drops less than a slower pitch. Watch and you'll notice, nobody ever swings OVER a rising fastball. It's because they are reading it like a slower pitch, thinking it's going to come down more than it does. So they swing lower, coming in under the ball. Because of that, many people assume the ball must have risen. But it is scientifically impossible for it to do so.

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A Knuckleball (could) and Eephus are two rising pitches

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Yes. I have done it before. You just need to throw it real hard with a lot of backspin. I have also thrown knuckle balls that jump upward.

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it is a 4 seam fastball up in the zone to get the hitter to chase. its called a rising fastball because it is thrown hard and straight so its really going straight but they call it a rising fastball cause it doesn't really drop up. the annoucers say it because usually hitters swing under the pitch

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My biology teacher said that a baseball can not rise because it defies physics. He said it gives the appaearance of rising because of the camera angle. Looks to me like they can but i think he know what he is talking about.

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yes... hence the name rising fastball

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