Heater Sports Slider Lite Curveball Baseball Pitching Machine – Perfect for Perfecting Your Pitch!

alfredo teixidor: Product is absolutely great. You can not at all use real baseballs. You have to use the balls that come with the machine or buy the balls separate. Using this for ground ball drills only.

United States on Jul 16, 2023

Dean: This is great product for my 7 year old.

Canada on Jun 16, 2023

Luis A.: MUY BUENA CUMPLE CON TODO LO QUE DICE, YO LA HE USADO PARA MI HIJO DE 11 AÑOS Y LA VERDAD TIRA MUY BIEN, ESO SI USO LAS PELOTAS DE LA MISMA MARCA DE COLOR BLANCO DE 60 MILLAS

Mexico on May 12, 2023

carlos alberto ayala palacios: he comprado 6 máquinas y han funcionado perfectamente para lo que las necesito, pero en esta última ocasión, la última que compré rediseñaron la base de la máquina y le quitaron el apoyo, la peor decisión!! se mueve mucho, inestable e inseguro, al mover el apoyo de la máquina hacia un costado, es mejor buscar el mismo modelo de máquina pero con el diseño antiguo , el que tiene el soporte en la parte inferior

Mexico on Mar 10, 2023

DocMatt: When used with the heater white balls this is a great buy! The other balls are junk, either too light and float like a wiffel ball, or too foamy and no good for hitting. The accuracy is awsome, but 1 must is adding a 25lb weight or sandbag to the base of the tripod. Do this and it is a solid machine. Use it for batting cage, fly ball practice, and just pitching on the diamond with a group of kids. Also recommend use with a ryobi 40v, 300w inverter and 40v battery. You can take it anywhere and it will run for 90min on 1 ryobi 40v 6ah battery.

United States on Oct 01, 2022

Francisco J. Reyes V.: Me encanta, sólo le falta el ajuste vertical, y poder seleccionar el tiempo de lanzamiento.

Mexico on Mar 16, 2021

Richard Winkler: For a home unit, it’s sufficient if you aren’t in a hurry with it. We bought the cage net system and the pitching machine. The cage net system is great for a regular sized back yard. Having said that, it’s not very large and reaction time at 45mph is minimal. As for the pitching machine itself, take the time to set it up properly and use the provided stakes to set it in place. Tip for accuracy: once you set the speed and location you want, understand that even with the balls recommended, to get a consistent pitch result, you have to feed the balls into the machine the same way every time. If you get the Slider Lite-Balls which I’m happy that I bought. I ended up buying two boxes of them. Again, take your time with this machine. After each pitch, it takes a few seconds to wind back up to speed. It won’t pitch consistently if you don’t let it wind back up. Nice back yard system for youngsters though.

United States on Jul 08, 2018

L. Brackett: First off be sure to purchase this from 1SportingGoodsOnline. They manufacture the machine and their customer service is the best I have encountered in on-line sales. J.C. was very helpful and answered many of my questions promptly. This is a solid machine I have been using it for the past week, everything has been working great. I use it and have my three kids use it also. I also have the 24 ft batting cage and the two products work seamlessly together. I have the Atec Hitting streak (I coach H.S. baseball) and decided to purchase the Slider for the automatic feeder so I wouldn't have to feed the ball every time. In comparing the Atec with the Slider they are essentially identical in regards to variable velocity control and breaking balls. The auto feeder works as advertised; an adjustment I made though was to put the feeder on the back part of the machine (there is a hole for it and is designed for the feeder), I did this so the hitter is able to see the ball drop into the machine. To adjust the height on the Slider you use adjust the back leg height; it takes just a second to do, if you want a finer height setting adjust the velocity. The Slider is a plastic machine and is a...

United States on Apr 25, 2016

KPM: Just assembled and fired up this machine for the first time and am very, very pleased. I have not found the issues of inconsistent location to be a problem thus far. Granted its the first time of the first day. From what I can tell, the issue might be caused by feeding the balls too fast. This machine is powered by one enclosed wheel and its not large. But that's a good thing over all. It folds up and will store nicely. On the "negative" side, the wheel slows down a bit after a pitch and needs a few seconds to get up to speed again when it will throw a nice pitch like the one before. This is where the ball feeder comes in nicely. The way the feeder works is it uses the vibration of the power in the machine to shimmy the ball down. The time it takes to do this just so happens to coincide with the time it takes the wheel to get back up to speed. So it really is a good idea to get both. If not, you just have to wait about 5 seconds between pitches. Now, no, this is not a machine with the two yellow wheels we used in high school. Those cost over $1,000 and you would need something like that if you had 15 kids taking swings and a time limit. But if its just you and a few kids, you...

United States on May 26, 2013