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Does anyone have a rising slider that actually rises. All the pitchers that I downloaded with rising sliders don't actually rise and it is starting to annoy me.

Nope, I've even made a player with a rising slider myself (Terminator; see signature) and it doesn't rise at all. I have about 3 pitchers with "rising" sliders. Kind of a misnomer, eh?

I don't think any "rising" pitches actually rise.

Yeah i have wrong who by the way is an amazing pitcher and no offense to stevenjackson but it doesn't rise
I want to see who can make a rising pitch that actually rises first

It's just an expression given to pitches that were customized using that option.

Wish that option actually made it rise...

When you really think about it, a "rising" pitch would be pretty difficult in baseball, wouldn't it? And even if you managed to do it, it would be pretty easy to recognize, wouldn't it? They are actually made use of more so in softball, where they are much more effective.

Any type of rising pitch, as mentioned before, seems almost impossible unless you were throwing submarine, but in this game, breaking pitches are not unique to the motion or the angle, so it's really nothing to try and get. Naturally, a submarine pitcher has crazy movement, but in the game, it's the same as an overhand pitcher.

Anyways, the term "Rise" is used as more hang time, and I think it's best used for pitches that break downward, most effectively, the fork type pitch. With more Rise, it hangs a bit more before breaking, but that's it, it's not sharper or harder, just hangs a bit more.

I agree totally. Again, a good pitch in softball, not very viable in baseball.

My New ace has a rising slider you can see upward spin but it doen't actually rise oh well

Yeah a rising slider would be impossible unless you were a submariner.

Has anyone tried that yet
Cause I will to see
(If I can stop playing NHL 09)

Well since Submariner's pitches movement aren't any different I would assume that this doesn't work either.

But you could, at least in theory, flick your wrist up like softball pitchers do. But it wouldn't really be a very good pitch.

I mean in powerpros not real life. The movement is different in real life.

Oh okay. Yeah, I guess so.