Day 14 - Practice Plan

Review and Repetition …emphasis on Pitcher Defense

The daily, step-by-step development of the batting swing and pitching delivery continues.

Bunt Defense.

0:00-0:15

Skill Building Warm-up

0:15-0:30

Playing Catch Practice

Instruction

No Bat Drills / No Ball Drills

PCP Routine

0:30-1:00

Team Drills

Bunt Defense

1:00-1:05 <Break>

1:05-1:40

Batting Practice - 12-Player Drill

I. Live Batting (Full Field)

Tee Work

II. Defense

Play balls off the bat at a position

III. Skills Station

1:40-2:00

Scrimmage

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SBW (14) Replaying the Ball - PCP Bunt Defense - TEAM DRILLS

Instruction

Knee-Elbow (Max effort)

The Knee Drive & Elbow Drive are what generate power and energy for the ‘swing’.
We want our batters to put as much effort as possible into driving the Knee and Elbow straight forward.

Hard-Quick = Elbow-Wrist

(‘Fast-Faster’ is another way to express ‘Hard-Quick’)

Once a batter creates maximum force with the Knee & Elbow (Large Muscles), the small muscles, that work the Wrist, take that energy and accelerate it, with a straight-line Wrist Snap, to conclude the ‘swing’.
The effort of driving the Knee & Elbow is ‘Hard’; the movement of the Wrist is ‘Quick’. (If we vocalized ‘Hard’, it would be a deep, gruff tone. Vocalizing ‘Quick’ would be a light, airy tone.)
The Elbow moves ‘Fast’; the Wrist moves ‘Faster’ (Fast-Faster).

No Bat Drills