Posted by: Bret (brtgwn@hotmail.com) on Thu Oct 30 16:18:16 2003

My daughter does great with pitching machines. But during a game with live pitching she struggles. Her mechanics are good. She tells me her problem is that she has trouble deciding to hit a pitch or let the pitch go. By the time she makes the decison, it is too late. Any advice?
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> it is a pitch selection issue not mechanical. Does she know her happy zone yet?
> if not she should start looking for pitches she can drive or is comfortable batting, then look for them in live pitching until two strikes?
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> it can be a timing problem too. since machines have no arm, she cannot learn timing properly, then she should have more live BP than machine work.
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> hope it helps
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> toti

One thing I have always taught my hitters to do mentally as they go to the plate is be telling themselves they are going to swing at every pitch(a mind set of swinging NOW), then if it is not a pitch to hit then decide to NOT swing. There is not enough time to make the decision to swing and then get the body started,but there is enough time decide to stop the swing and get it stopped!