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I would like to cover our Short Stop Double Play Drills and we are going to illustrate for you the fact that you do not have to actually see a ground ball coming at you to do a little bit of work on your receiving technique.
For instance, receiving a throw from the second, a throw from first, or in some cases even a ground ball that you are going to handle yourself. So we are going to run through these just with hand signals from Coach Piper who gives the signals to the kids.
Their job initially is going to be to sprint to the bag. Get their chop steps in, he will say go. They will release and will go back.
Remember: we have to sprint to the bag. You do not time your arrival at the bag with the arrival of the ball. You sprint to the bag, hold your position, hands up, show your partner where you want the ball and they want you get the feed then, we will cross the bag and go in.
Okay coach, her we go.
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Good chop step. Hands up?
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Hand signal comes up,
Freeze him up.
Chop? Away they go.
Sprint to the bag? See how he sprints to the bag? Hands are up?
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Our first receiving position is going to involve the throw from the second baseman. So, it is a throw to the outer side of the bag. As Brenner approaches the bag, he is going to continue to sprint, he will chop step, but this time, he will also tell us Infielder to where he wants ball which is outside. He will call for the ball,
Call two,
Receive the ball and work through his footwork. Again coach is going to work the hand signals. We do not actually have to have a ball going here to get down what we need to get down. Let us take a look at the first one.
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Receives the ball? Throws it.
Catch the ball? There you go.
Good,
Keep going,
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Catches the ball? Slides outside?
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Second receiving position in terms of making the throw is going to be a throw from the first baseman especially a left handed first baseman that will take the short stop to the inside part of the field. They are going to call inside?
Once the coach gives a hand signal then they will release and make the throw on a first base.
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Call inside? Call inside?
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Make the catch and the throw.
Tag? Good.
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The third part of receiving technique is not actually receiving a throw at all but rather a ground ball. It is the ground ball that would be the high chopping ground ball through the middle of the infield that the short stops going the field.
The difficulty with this is, if it is not a real hard hit ball, the man on the first is going to be right on top or him. So, what we are going to do is use the bag as protection. We are going to actually feel the ball, tag the back of the bag, plant with that left foot and make a good strong throw from behind the bag and that gives us some cushion between where the runner is at and being behind the bag.
Hopefully, we are not going to get hit on this on. If we go across the bag, we are most certainly going to come in to contact. So, we use the hand signals. We will get within about five feet of the bag. Watching chop for the steps when the coach gives him and hand up, there are going to pretend they are fielding a ground ball. Plan on the bag and make a good strong throw.
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Chop?
Hands up?
Fields the ball?
Plans some throws. Notice how he uses the bag as protection.
Field?
Plant?
Good,
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Fields? Good.
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