Day 5 - Practice Plan

Building off Fly Ball work in practice #4.  Follow up work, on skills introduced in the previous practice, goes a long way towards solidifying skills. We focus on training the Pitcher to break to a corner base on all balls hit in the infield. While doing this, infielders get ground ball work.

Batting Practice: our goal is, to see the kids (and coaching staff) demonstrating an understanding of the flow of Batting Practice and having this activity run smoother.

Scrimmage is settling in as a daily aspect of the practice routine and, like Batting Practice, is running smoother and more efficiently.

Twist - 2

Switch Heels - 2

Sideways Karate - 1

Skip-a-Rock - 1

Skill Building Warm-up

6-5 Play

• Ball delivered a couple steps to Shortstop’s right; Pitcher sprints to Back-up

• Rotation: SS > 3b > P> SS (extra player is at Shortstop; jumps in on the next repetition).

LINK: Drop Step & ‘Toss Drills’ Explanation - found in ‘Fly Balls’ section of Drills

LINK: Fly Ball Communication Drill Explanation — found in ‘Team Defense’ Table of Contents