Tips For Hitting At Batting Cages


I recently helped a baseball player out who said he was having problems hitting the ball after visiting the batting cages in his local town.  In fact, I’ve heard several players say the same thing.  I know some players who avoid machine fed batting cages.  Here’s the player’s story.

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.  He was getting tired quickly and couldn’t put the same effort into each pitch.

Here’s what you need to know about batting cages.  Usually one token provides you with 25 balls to hit.  The machine will pitch a ball every five seconds or less.  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.

Hitting that much in a short amount of time will 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.

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

Many coaches like to have their hitters use the machine fed batting practice as one station among many during hitting practice.  You’ll rotate to other drills quickly so don’t worry about anything there.  In this case, hit every other pitch and really focus on hitting the baseball solidly.

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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