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The next drill is a Three-Ball, Front Toss Drill. It is a variation of the first front toss drill that we showed you. And then we have three baseballs placed on the ground, in relationship to home plate. Each ball represents where a particular hitter would like to hit that ball in relationship to his pitched position. If we have a right hand hitter, he should hit ball number 1, which would be an inside pitch from that position. A pitch down the middle of the front edge of the plate, and an outside pitch off the back corner, as shown.
In this drill, as we toss, we are going to work on pitches inside, down the middle, and outside, and the hitter with using his reference points, can tell if he is hitting that particular pitch in the right position.
As we are trying to hit the ball on the inside part of the plate, we are working very hard on making sure that we have the proper sequence, a real strong hip turn so that we can get our hands inside the ball. We were trying to hit the ball, with our hands inside the ball here, and pulling our hands inside when we are working on that inside pitch.
Bryce is now working on the pitch down the middle. He is trying to hit the ball off the front edge of the plate and he is trying to drive the ball more towards the center of the diamond. He is allowing the ball to get a little bit deeper on this particular pitch, off to the front edge of the plate.
Bryce is now working on the outside pitch which he is trying to drive to the opposite field. He is letting the ball get deeper, so he can develop a swing that will allow him to go with the pitch.
In a team setting, we would like each hitter to hit three pitches from each of the three areas. That would be nine repetitions. We would like him to do that two times during a practice session.
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