Hitting At Batting Cages

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Hitting At Batting Cages

By Jeff Wise | October 19, 2010

I recently helped a baseball player out who perceived himself as having problems hitting after visiting the batting cages in his local town.

He mentioned that he hit really well the first round and then every round after that he progressively got worse and had a hard time hitting the ball correctly or with proper mechanics.

Here’s what you need to know about batting cages. Usually one token will provide you with 25 balls to hit. The machine will pitch a ball every five seconds. That’s about two minutes to hit 25 balls. If you do that three or four times in a row then you’ll be hitting a lot of balls in a short amount of time.

That is going to tire you out too quickly and it really isn’t quality batting practice. Nothing beats live pitching from a real pitcher but if you do hit at the batting cages here is something to keep in mind.

Hit one round
Rest for five to 10 minutes
Hit another round
Don’t wear yourself out
Focus on seeing the ball
Practice good mechanics

Those are the baseball hitting ideas I gave to the young player and I’m confident that he now knows it wasn’t hit mechanics that were slipping, it was that he was just getting tired by hitting so many balls in a row.

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