I received this suggestion for softball coaches from Kevin in Syracuse NY. A great drill to liven up your practice and improve performance.
From Kevin…
One of the softball drills we do is called 21 outs. We do this drill with our regular season teams and our ALL-STAR teams and they love it.
You start out with every one playing in their starting positions. Start by hitting to the left fielder. If you hit a pop up that’s one out; if you hit a grounder, the fielder has to hit the cutoff man and then he has to make a good throw to 2nd base. If he does, then that’s an out. If not you start back at 0 with your outs.
In the infield we start out throwing to 1st base. After everyone has done that, we try to turn a double play. As we do the drill the kids will call out the number of the out, and when they mess up you will here the number 0 a lot but don’t worry after a while the drill starts clicking and goes very smoothly.
The kids love this drill; we actually went to 60 with our outs.
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