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Your cart is empty. Dual Wheel Variable Speed Mini Lite-Ball Pitching Machine from Heater Sports
Hit Mini Lite-Balls With Pin-Point Accuracy. Hitting a real baseball takes skill, but imagine the skill required to hit a ball the size of a golf ball.
Now, with the Crusher Mini Lite-Ball Pitching Machine, you can train your eye to hit a ball approximately two-thirds smaller than a real baseball.
With the Crusher’s Dual Wheel Variable Speed Controls you can hit curve balls and fastballs. And if you can hit this mini ball, imagine how well you’ll hit a real ball when you step up to the plate.
And because the Crusher Lite-Ball is soft, you can improve your hitting anywhere. Use in the garage, park or your own backyard.
aaron stephen
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2025
I was told this works with small wiffle balls and that is not true. The foam balls that do work from Heater Sports are very expensive. Needs to be a high density foam ball to work.
Demey
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2023
Crusher throws balls at good velocity. Easy to setup and use. Difficult to repeatable fast ball straight. One ball will go straight next ball will be curve ball to right, next curve ball to left. No markings to indcate left right speed of motors.
Elisha Call
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2021
Doesn’t pitch consistently at all. Would not buy this. Speed and accuracy is totally off and it spits out multiple balls at a time.
sumukh chhabria
Reviewed in India on January 26, 2019
It’s good for kids but it’s not good as expected
jennifer
Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2018
Works well for us. Young kid practicing.
RT
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2018
First - it has 2 instruction sheets. We read the first one and panicked immediately as the product parts were different. Then we found the other sheet that says - use this! Why would you have 2 instruction sheets? Just take the other one which is not applicable, throw it to avoid confusion among your customers.Second - it took us longer to connect the black round part to the red casing. We discovered that the hole into which the bolt should connect to was partly covered with the red plastic casing. So we have to meticulously remove it because we do not want to loosen the "thread" to which the bolt connects to.Third, when we finally set-up the entire unit and plugged it in - took forever to adjust the direction and speed of the balls. There are no instructions as to which button would give you a higher or lower pitch which one is throw a faster ball, which one will you a curveball. No matter how hard we tried and tried, still cannot figure it out. End result - very time consuming with no productivity.Fourth - would not work well if you put all the balls in the red case - have to do it one at a time as the balls get stuck. When one gets stuck, you either push it with another ball - if two balls get stuck, you turn off the unit and get the balls yourself which takes a little hand and a load of patience and determination to do it. My husband's hand simply won't fit in.Fifth - when you turn off the the unit, while it stops feeding the ball the sounds won't stop. So everytime we turn it off, we literally have to unplug it also! And boy, it really is a loud machine. I don't think our next door neighbor will appreciate it.Sixth - not sure if I missed it, but the tripod is not adjustable so this may also be hte reason why we cannot adjust how high or low the balls should go depending on the height of the "batter" or the catcher (my son was hoping this could help him in his infield catching drills).My son is truly disappointed with this product. With the price - we honestly don't think it is worth it. We might have received a defective unit but with our experience, we do not even want a replacement.In conclusion, it you are really serious about improving your baseball skills with the help of training tools and equipment, this is not the equipment for you. One good thing though that came out of this purchase - my husband will stick to just manually throw and pitch to our son. While we are returning this product, we are definitely getting the small balls from the same vendor.
Sheri
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2018
We bought this for my granddaughter and at first she was concerned with the small balls, but she caught on quickly. We use it for batting and catching. My grandson, 4 years old, who just started tee ball enjoyed it also. He likes the catching part the best.
Asking for a friend
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2018
This will take some getting used to as the balls are sticking for the moment. I assume that this tool will get better with use.
Melissa
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2013
This was a last minute order. The reason i wanted it was because im sick of the real balls getting lost in the woods and sick of things getting broken (one light fixture and one second floor window!) There were no shipping choices, just stuck with 5-7 days (i think). Showed that it left facility same day, but then sat in Utah for 4 days! Total turnaround was 10 days! The product was very easy to put together, my 12&14 yr olds put it together. It does have to warm up awhile to get up to speed...don't get nervous! The 2 wheels dont start spinning at the same time either. once it gets going, its perfect. The balls are pretty inconsistent in height and left to right, but frankly, I think that's a good thing. If its supposed to help with hitting in real baseball, that's the way pitchers throw, inconsistent. The adjustment for height is really simple, just move the tripod legs closer or further apart. they dont lock in and require adjustment like a typical tripod. We use it almost at full speed and the pitches are hard to hit, but not too hard,for both of my kids. At that speed, the balls come out every 4-5 seconds, you can count the flashes of light to easily know when theyre coming. They don't hurt you either. I think it's great overall! We put a hockey/soccer goal behind the batter because they miss a lot of balls, then have one or 2 people trying to catch the ones they hit. It's amazing how far these little foam balls can go! So far, so good, glad I bought it. Worth the money as well.
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