- UPM45 Blue Thunder portable pitching machine requires no power
- Throws regulation baseball and softballs 18-45 MPH
- Weighs only 25 lbs.
- Throws lightweight baseballs and softballs up to 60 MPH
- Perfect for throwing accurate pitches, infield drills, and outfield drills
Product Description
Louisville Slugger UPM45 Blue Thunder pitching machine is a mechanical pitching machine that requires no power or batteries. It is portable and weighs only 25 lbs. Throws regulation baseball and softballs 18-45 MPH. Throws lightweight baseballs and softballs up to 60 MPH. Perfect for throwing accurate pitches, infield drills, and outfield drills
Louisville Slugger UPM 45 Blue Flame Pitching Machine
Louisville Slugger UPM 45 Blue Flame Pitching Machine
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This is a sturdy, well built product. I don’t see it breaking easily. It is a bit pricey considering it is manually operated. However, once I got through a batting session with my son, I felt it was well worth it. The adjustment system is intuitive. It allows you to set pitches from 20 MPH to 45 MPH while being able to adjust the height of the pitch at each speed. The pitches are accurate within a few inches of each other once you get your settings locked in. As the settings are all held in place by bolts/pins, you don’t have to do any major recalibration between sessions. I’d recommend it to any mom/dad who is tired of trying to lob strikes to their beginning hitter’s already small strike zone.
This is a great, quality product. As anyone who has tried knows, making consistant and accurate pitches to a beginner is very difficult. This machine makes remarkably consistant pitches with regulation balls and serves as a great training tool for a youngster. It is easy to use and does not require any electricity or batteries – a major plus. You can throw it in the back of your car and head to the park for hours of fun.
This is a great product. I play on a adult club baseball team. We use this for batting practice before a our games. It throws more consistent strikes than is humanly possible (balls are sometimes high and low of the strike zone but almost never inside or outside). Lunging at balls out of the strike zone is no way to prepare for a game. And you don’t worry about one of the players pitching BP and tiring his arm before play. At the maximum setting, the machine throws about as hard as you would toss BP. We placed our machine on a the base of an old movable basketball net (net and backboard removed of course). This raised the machine to adult height and allows us to roll it on an off the field. The results speak for themselves. Our team batting average went up 60 points last season and we hit more homeruns than we had in years.
I was looking for a way to toss faster pitches to my daughter who has moved up to “girl pitch” fastpitch softball from the slow underhand coach pitch last session. I looked at many machines in various price ranges. It was funny, because a sales person at a sporting goods store knew very little about the display model and said he has never seen anyone buy one before. Obviously, he too was skeptical of this product. After a little research, the things I liked about this was it requires no electricity (try finding a power outlet at the local ball field), it’s compact and simple to use. The other thing I like about it, is that it throws every kind of ball. Regular baseballs and softballs, wiffle balls and batting practice softer balls. I haven’t tried a football yet, but one is pictured on the box. Anyway, when I took it out of the box and assembled it and threw the first pitch, I was amazed at the kind of pop that the ball had. I set it up about 35 ft. from my daughter and it threw consitant strikes at a pretty good speed on the medium setting. The pitches were low and flat just like a fastpitch softball windwill pitch. The only downside that I can see is, it does take a little fine tuning of moving a few of the adjustments around to get it right, but once you get the hang of it, you can throw many different speeds and pitch placements. Another thing I like about it, is that although vertually every pitch is a strike once set, they are not exactly in the same spot every time, which makes it more realistic. By the way, wiffle balls fly in at speeds greater than the listed 45 mph and some were even curving, dropping and rising. This thing will also launch some nice fly balls and grounders for fielding practice. If you are a little league or softball coach, I would highly recommend this baby for batting practice and for moms and dads looking to give their superstar realistic BP. I think my daughter, now 9 years old and I will get many years of use out of this.
I love to hit softballs and our kids are getting to the age of being able to participate. The only issue I had was that my wife can’t really pitch slow-pitch balls. Hence, I would get frustrated when she pitched to me..
This thing works great to calibrate and throw 6-10 foot pitches to me. I was amazed it can do this and coupled with being able to pitch baseball and softballs for kids leagues makes it a bonus.
Easy to assemble and even easier to carry around. Great addition to anyone’s sports equipment if you have youngers kids or Dad’s just trying to relive their glory days!!
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