How does Slow Pitch Softball differ from Fast Pitch Softball?
The Basics Slow-pitch softball and fast-pitch softball are quite a bit different from each other. The slow-pitch game can be either recreational or quite competitive, while fast-pitch softball is very competitive. It takes training, practice and concentration to play successfully while slow-pitch softball requires strength, patience and timing when played on a competitive level and merely the right equipment when played on a non-competitive level. The biggest difference is in the pitching. In an organized slow-pitch league, the pitcher will toss the ball to home plate with a high-arc and have the ball cross home plate just as the ball is reaching the batter’s shoulders or chest area. The pitcher must do this because if he merely lobbed the ball to the batter so it reached home plate between the knees and the shoulders it would be easy to hit. A pitcher in the fast-pitch game is not trying to trick the batter in that manner. Instead, she will hurl the ball to home plate with a windup an
