Assertion: pitcher's ball | /r/CapableOf | reach the plate
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text: Other nicknames for the Eephus pitch include the balloon ball, blooper ball, gondola, parachute, rainbow pitch – distinct from the rainbow curve, gravity curve, The Monty Brewster (a reference to the titular character in Brewster's Millions), and Bugs Bunny curve (a reference to the 1946 Bugs Bunny cartoon Baseball Bugs in which several batters in a row swing and miss at a very slow pitch before the ball reaches the plate).
text: When pitchers throw riseballs, batters see the ball coming in straight, but as the ball approaches the plate, it rises.
text: but then as the ball reaches the plate, the pitch drops, trying to force the batter to hit the top of the ball.