Does any one know of 1 person baseball drills that i can do by myself?
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010 at
9:20 am
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There’s lots of them:
Throw or pitch against a backstop, a wall, a net, a fence, anything really.
You can practice ground balls by getting some tennis balls, going to the local elementary school and throwing the ball off the wall-ball wall or the side of the building somewhere, and fielding it as it bounces back to you.
You can always practice hitting from a tee. This may seem like it wouldn’t help much but focus on hitting line drives, and focus on placing the ball (like intentionally hit to right field, left field, or up the middle). Focus on mechanics and keeping your head down. A tee is great for this because at the end of your swing you should be staring directly at an empty tee, if you’re not, then you need to work on keeping your head down and watching the bat meet the ball.
You can also study the rules and possible situations by yourself. It’s always helpful to know the rules inside and out. You never know when there’s going to be something crazy happen and you’ll know how to respond. Do you know how to appeal if a runner misses a base? What if the umpire called time out after the play? What if two runners passed the same base on the same play, how do you tell the umpire what you’re appealing? Those kinds of little things can be the difference between winning and loosing a 1 run game.
Oh, here’s another good one to help with hitting. Get a catchers mask, put it on and lay flat on your back. Toss a ball up in the air and just watch it with your eyes right up until it comes back down and hits you in the face (that’s why you wear a mask). This trains your eyes to track the ball, and can really help you hit curve balls and any pitch with movement on it.
Also, try this one. Just wear your glove and take a ball. Practice removing the ball from your glove, and while you bring your arm up into throwing position, rotate the ball in your hand so you have a 4-seam grip. Practice this while you’re watching TV or sitting on the bus on the way to school or whenever. How often do you see a player bobble the ball as they pull it out of their mitt, costing them an out? You can virtually eliminate these errors. Plus, if you do it enough, your fingers will learn to automatically rotate a ball to a 4-seam grip everytime you grab a ball. This gives you the best grip for making hard accurate throws, and you can do in in the split second it takes to move the ball from your glove to throwing position.
You could go to the batting cages. I’m pretty sure that only requires one person.
throw at a target, work out, perfect your swing, become a switch-hitter, learn new pitchers, catch tennis balls off a target, and a lot of other stuff