Baseball hitting games

Our hitters can now work on attacking certain parts of the zone, helping them get prepared to develop an in-game approach. It recreates the hardest part of the game to recreate: pitching. Where it is today is an excellent product. The WIN VR system has legitimately helped me understand when I need to start my swing, when I need to start my load, and it's been a huge tool for me. I stood in the batter's box and watched them pitch to me. Similar to the obstacle course drill, we use this drill to promote competition among our infielders, while also getting a ton of ground ball reps in a short amount of time.

In this drill, players work on their fast-twitch movements and get comfortable with fielding ground balls and keeping the baseball in front of them at all costs. The goal of this drill is to stay in the goalie box, fielding the baseball cleanly and keeping it in front of them for as long as they can. The purpose of this drill is to make your infielders work! Focus on fast-twitch movements and pushing your players to make tough plays.

After spending a few minutes in the goalie box drill, your infielders will feel much more comfortable with both routine ground balls and those web gem plays on hard-hit balls in the gaps. When coaching this drill, be sure to avoid hitting balls too predictably. With less time to react, human beings your players included are always trying to pick up on patterns. Our standard daily infield drills generally consist of glove side, right at them, and backhand. This drill is designed to get rid of that predictability.

Move balls from side to side, and find a good groove of making your players move and work to keep the ball in front. The idea behind this drill is very simple: we want to teach our hitters to hit the ball hard and do damage. While we spend a ton of time working on mechanics and the correct swing movements, this drill is a fun one to see who your team leaders are when it comes to hitting the baseball hard.

When coaching this drill, be sure not to let your hitters allow their mechanics go out the window. To prevent this, you can make the first two rounds game-like swings, and then, in the final round, let your players experiment a little to see if they can improve their number.

For example, let your players incorporate a higher leg kick, or something different in their swing that they think could help their score. For more information on this, check out our post on the swing movement spectrum. If your player has a small leg kick, encourage them to try it at a Level 10 and see what the result is. This keeps practice fun and encourages your hitters to look for small tweaks that can lead to more power, more bat speed and more distance.

After going through a few rounds of BP, this drill is a great change of pace to incorporate competition while stressing the importance of quality at bats with your hitters. For this game, hitters are given one swing to put their best contact on the baseball and are evaluated using the scoresheet below.

This is a great drill for breaking up the repetitiveness of standard team batting practice. It also emphasizes the importance of every swing and at bat. When your hitters are taking multiple hacks in a round of BP, it can be easy to not take their best swing on every pitch — swinging at balls outside of the zone, getting tired and developing bad habits, or swinging without intentional purpose to do damage.

By only allowing one swing before rotating to the next player, this drill emphasizes the need to put their best swing on every pitch. The fast pace and competition aspect of it is also a great way to keep your players engaged.

This is a fun drill for youth baseball players, all the way up to your high school teams and older age groups. The baseball must be tossed between the other players knees and shoulders. That player can stop the baseball with his glove and start bouncing it until he is ready to toss, or he can play the baseball off of his body, and start bouncing the ball in his glove. Some people say you can only volley bounce the baseball twice before tossing. As always, last man standing wins.

And again, if one of these aren't what you are looking for, try on page "Fun Baseball Drills". Here is a listing of the drills under the Team Drills Section :. Kids Game Ideas. And if you don't find what you want, let us know. Drop us a line in the " Contact Box" and we will do everything we can to help you. Comments Have your say about what you just read! Leave me a comment in the box below. Subscribe to "Extra Innings" our every few weeks newsletter loaded with baseball drills, ideas and stories.

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