Another Great Baseball Hitting Tip
What I want to talk about in this article is your first home run. I know there are a lot of excited ball players who just want to hit a home run and get it out of the way so they can either concentrate on hitting for average or hitting more home runs. To be honest with you, I never once, that I can remember, ever went up to bat to hit a home run.
Most of the time I went up to bat, I was looking for a good pitch to hit the ball into the outfield. That’s what I learned during my 14 years playing baseball. You need to work hard, improve your fundamentals and consistently hit line drives. I learned this from coaches, books and watching Major League Baseball players.
Here’s the tip … home runs will come. Be patient and keep getting solid contact on the ball and the home runs will come. I remember my very first home run. I was a sophomore in high school. It was a fall league baseball game and it was at night. It wasn’t the nicest ballpark. In fact, it was a dirt infield instead of grass and there was another field behind it with no fence separating the left field. However, in right field there was a huge fence. I don’t remember how high it was, but it looked like a chain-link version of the Green Monster from Fenway Park. If you hit anything over that fence it was gobbled up by whatever creature was lurking in the dark.
I remember it very well. I swung at the pitch like I always swing the bat but there was something different about the way the ball hit the bat. It was as if I didn’t even feel the ball make contact. You just heard a solid, "crack!" and the ball went sailing. In fact, most of us lost sight of the ball. It vanished into the darkness and when I was running to first base I asked myself, "did I just hit my first home run over the chain-linked monster fence?" Indeed I did. Guess what? I never got that ball. My first home run ball is on the trophy case of … I don’t know what!
Again, the great baseball hitting tip that I have for you is to work hard, be patient and swing like you normally would. Your home runs will come. Trust me.
My years of experience playing and teaching baseball hitting will help you with the challenge of learning how to hit a baseball correctly. Articles such as the one you just read will inform and motivate you to a better understanding of proper baseball hitting whether you are a coach, parent or ballplayer. Check back here for upcoming
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Jeff Wise
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