Pre-practice Warm-ups
5 minutes: Throwing and catching
5 minutes: Running
5 minutes: Stretching
Team Drills
60 minutes: Steal the Bacon, 15 minutes; Hole in the Diamond, 15 minutes; 5x5 Scrimmage, 30 minutesPractice Wrap-up
15 minutes: Baserunning (Run through 1B; 1B to 3B; Home to 2B; 2B to Home; Home Run, finishing with a slide)
Drills:
Steal the Bacon
Goal: Develop ball handling skills, particularly picking the ball up with the bare hand
Procedure:
- Divide the team into two groups and number the players in each group
- Coach puts the ball between the two groups and yells out a number
- Both players with the number run toward the ball and try to grab it, or steal the bacon
- When one of the players picks up the ball, the other tries to tag him with the glove
- The player who gets the ball tries to run back to his line without getting tagged
- Award one team a point if its player gets back to the line without being tagged
- Award the other team a point if its player makes the tag before the runner reaches the line
- No points are awarded if the runner drops the ball
- Emphasize that the boys need to squeeze the balls in their gloves
Hole in the Diamond
Goal: To teach fielders keep hard hit balls in front of them
Procedure:
- Divide the team into four groups of three
- One team spreads out between 3B and 2B; another team between 2B and 1B; third team in the outfield backing up 3B-2B team; final team in the outfield backing up the 2B-3B team
- Coach hits baseball to the team on one side of the diamond, trying to get the ball to the outfield grass
- The infielders must stop the ball from getting to the grass
- If the ball reaches the grass, the team on the other side of the diamond gets a point
- After four grounders to each team, the outfield teams move to the infield, and the infield teams to the outfield
- Explain that fielding the ball doesn't necessarily mean making a clean catch
- Emphasize keeping the ball in front of the body
- Watch the ball into the glove
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