12 Tips For Becoming A Better Hitter

1. Selecting a bat that’s right for you: Not too heavy or too light and not too long or too short.

2. The Grip: Grip the bat with your fingers, not on the palms, and relax.

3. Where to stand in the batters box: Means to have complete plate coverage.

4. Batting Stance and Balance: Your batting stance has to be comfortable for you.

• Place your feet shoulder width apart
• Stay relaxed.
• A little flex in the knees reduces tension
• Balance means having your weight centered over the middle of your body

5. Seeing the pitch with both eyes: Turn you head to see the pitcher with both eyes.

6. Pulling your head off the ball: Get into the habit of seeing the ball hit the bat.

7. Knowing the strike zone: An imaginary area over home plate between the batters knees and his armpits.

8. Seeing the ball from the pitchers hand: See plenty of live pitching to recognize the release point.

9. Bring your hips into the swing: Rotating your hips generates greater bat speed and power.

10. The baseball swing:

• Have a natural stride towards the pitcher landing softly.
• Extremely important when the front foot lands, the hands should be back.
• Turn on your back foot.
• Start your bat forward drive the knob down toward the ball follow through with your swing.

11. Remember to relax: Holding the bat with a loose top hand helps you to be loose up top. You will automatically tighten up when you swing.

12. Bunting: Start the bat at the top of the strike zone, and use your legs as an elevator to go up and down, you want to catch the ball with the bat. Don’t stab at the ball.