This video outlines a great drill to work on pitch recognition, and strike zone awareness. It also outlines how to teach a hitting approach at the plate that will lead to much more success over the long term.
Home plate is 17 inches wide…that is roughly 5 baseballs wide. You can number those balls 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5. We are doing this to represent the 5 different horizontal pitch locations that are on the plate.
If hitters are locked in on swinging at these 3 middle zone locations (2, 3 & 4) then they are going to be much less likely to swing at pitches that are off of the plate, whether they are inside or outside. By focusing on those 3 balls right down the middle, pitches that are close, yet off of the corners will appear miles away (6″+) from our point of focus. Very often, those pitches that look like they are going to be in line with ball 1 or with ball 5, are pitches that end up off of the plate when they pass through the hitting zone.
When hitters work this approach early in counts it really helps them lock in on great pitches to hit. If they take some strikes that are 5’s or 1’s that is OK. We are trying to reinforce that we are giving the pitchers the corners early in counts. We want to swing only at the pitches that have a high percentage of being hard hit balls.
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1 ноя 2020
