Baseball Hitting Drills

Soft Toss Drill

Purpose

Works on Eye hand coordination – More batting reps

Equipment:

Bats, baseballs, Backstop

Procedure

* Have players pair up; one feeds (soft toss) and the other hits

* Player kneels opposite batter with a bucket of balls

* Player softly tosses balls into hiting zone of batter

* Have the hitter hit line drives into the backstop.

Key Points

* Live hitting with out the need of a batting tunnel or field

* If a player hits under the ball, he or she will hit the top of the backstop.

* If a player hits on top of the ball, he or she will hit a ground ball that rolls into or hits low on the backstop.