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All Around Drill: Great drill for working the infield quickly and warming up. Great for teaching players how to back up the throw. "If you can't see the player who is making the throw to the position you are backing up, you are too close" Drill: Position a player at each infield position excluding pitcher and shortstop. Each base excluding the catcher has a backup who is positioned behind the base. Begin the drill with the catcher throwing to first, first throws to second, second throws to third, third throws to home. After a few minutes, reverse the drill home to third, etc. The players playing behind the bases should be lining them selves up to back up the throw. If there is an errant throw the back-ups should be ready to retrieve the ball and make the throw to the next base. All Drill: Works on the outfield stopping the ball and making the throw into the infield. Works on base- running and sliding. Drill: Line-up three, four or five players at the following positions. Right field, first base and third base. The player's at first base take turns as base-runners and try to make it safely to third base. On the coaches signal, the player from first takes off heading for third base. Every time the runner gets to third base they need to go in sliding. The coach hits the ball behind the runner to the right fielder, the right fielder makes the stop and try's to throw the runner out a third. The third baseman needs to stop the ball and make a low tag. Rotate the players through after each turn. Player plays the same position -runner, right field or third base, through two rotations, before moving to another position. Beginning Slide Drill: Great sliding drill for teaching beginners how to slide. Drill: Line up your players in a single line, space arm length apart. Talk to them about the cadence of the slide. Left, right, left, sit. Then have the player's start walking left leg first, right leg, left leg and then have them fall to their butts with the right leg extended and the left leg folded underneath in a figure four. Once the players get better then begin having them slowly run the three steps, left, right, left, sit. | ||