Pitch (baseball)

Trick Pitch
On Tuesday, I mentioned an early season drill I do with batters to understand the importance of hitting balance and direction. I do the same tricky thing with pitchers in order to teach pitching fundamentals. At an early spring practice, I roll bunted balls right at them before rolling ground balls to pitchers after they pitch the ball, in order to express the importance of pitchers being able to field their position, but more importantly...

Trick Pitch

On Tuesday, I mentioned an early season drill I do with batters to understand the importance of hitting balance and direction. I do the same tricky thing with pitchers in order to teach pitching fundamentals. At an early spring practice, I roll bunted balls right at them before rolling ground balls to pitchers after they pitch the ball, in order to express the importance of pitchers being able to field their position, but more importantly...

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