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Now we are going to talk about secondary leads at second base and reactions to ground balls. In the next video, we will do reactions to fly balls because we treat them differently.
First thing he is going to do is he is going to take his lead, left, right and two slides, and then on the pitch, he will take his secondary lead and react to the ground ball. His idea is take your secondary lead right now, one, two, three. He is right there. If the ball is at him or behind him, he is going to advance the third base. If the ball is in front of him, he has to stop and go back to second base because we feel the short stop or third baseman could field it and he would not be able to advance.
So here's how we practice it. We have to get over there, take his lead and then his secondary lead and we just hit balls near him, so he has to make a decision. There is the pitch and then we hit the ball. Ball is behind him up the middle. So it goes to the next base. Now in practice, we normally have three or four base runners and we just keep going one after another. Takes his lead, there is his secondary and he has to make a decision that ball is in front of him. So he shuffles back to the base because the short stop is going to field that.
The next, the hard one he has to do is he takes his lead, takes his secondary and the ball hitting the hallways, not quite sure, he has to wait for the ball to go through before he can go over to the next base. And that's how we practice ground balls and secondary reactions.
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