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Fun and effective coaching tool. Helps teach tracking and focusing on the ball from release to impact zone
Product Description
Practice your swing until you're hitting like the pros. This quality pitching machine helps your aspiring MLB player get trained for baseball season. Requires four "D" batteries, not included.
Features:
- Measures 9. 75"L x 9.5"W x 17.75"H once assembled
- Height-adjustment for different pitches
- Comes with 27"L collapsible bat
- Includes 8 white Aero Strike plastic baseballs
- Machine pitches balls every 10 seconds
- Red light indicates when ball is about to be pitched
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
43 of 45 people found the following review helpful
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Bought this for my 9 year old grandson and was afraid that it wouldn't work well enough for him and his 8 year old brother to use. I haven't had very good luck with toys lately and I thought a pitching machine for $29 was asking a lot. However, it worked just fine. I had purchased an extra set of balls so there would be enough for two rounds before the gathering up process. Seems the extra balls were a little heavier and fired better than the balls that came with the product, so the boys chose to use only the one set and pick-up after each round. (they have a lot more energy than I have) They had a great time practicing their batting and I got credit for getting an awesome gift.
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
My kids were jumping-up-and-down excited to get this as they love baseball. Unfortunately, there is no way for them to play. Even on a flat surface the balls go in wildly varying directions, heights & distances. The motor is still revving up when the first ball is pitched, so it's always too low/short. The mechanism for loading fails every other time so that two balls are shot out at first (both too low/short). My 4 & 7 yr. olds go from swinging above their heads to getting hit in the hip, to golfing in one round of pitching. They love the concept of the machine, but only get one decent pitch out of the 6 (it already came missing 2 balls - somebody else must have smartly returned it before us). I'm hoping to find a different pitching machine that will make us all happy.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this for my seven year old for soft toss batting practice. It's to inconsistent to use as batting practice in any fashion. One pitch will be right down the middle, the next will go behind his back and the next will be 10 feet outside. It's good if you want to practice catching line drives or short fly balls. That's it. I am going to bite the bullet and purchase a real pitching machine. Also we went through 8 "D" batteries in less than an hour. I hope this helps.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great machine.
I would call this more a sporting machine than a toy. My purpose was to use this to practice batting (baseball/softball) and for my kids to practice aswell. Read more
Published 1 month ago by renae
Works good
Works good, but doesn;t seem to keep my child entertained very long. He would rather I picthed him the ball or watch the machine do it. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mike Wahl
It's for 5yr olds
It pitches okay when it does that is. The overall product quality is below average and the height adjustment doesn't work well. Read more
Published 6 months ago
Franklin Sports MLB Pitching Machine
I was looking for a good pitching machine that works good for the wiffle ball games we have and that is cheap. Well I found it! This works great. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Krista
Outstanding
Outstanding. my son is 9 years old and he hits the the ball almost once every game but it's low and to the pitcher and he usually get out. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Michael J. Banks, Ph.D.
Great for playing "Guess where the ball will go next"
My boys started T ball this year and were very excited to get this pitching machine for practicing at home. Read more
Published 12 months ago by girlnextdoor
Better for skeet shooting than batting practice
Thought this would be great for my 5 year old. He's got decent coordination and can hit balls pitched to him. Read more
Published 18 months ago by J. Norton
Its a good learning tool
Purchased the 6696S3 pitching machine a few weeks ago after test driving a colleague's son's one. I've been using it for only 2 weeks now. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Paul Santangelo
Avoid at all cost
I got this for my son who was 4 1/2 at the time, set it up and it was worthless. The balls didn't come out straight, there was a problem with the balls falling down the chute to... Read more
Published 23 months ago by M. Klein
Sports Pitching Machine
I purchased this for my 5 year old grandson who has started T-Ball. He loved the pitching machine and it was a hit in the neighborhood, but because there were little boys playing... Read more
Published 24 months ago by J. Ruud
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