Posted by: Richard Hunt (rhunt000@insightbb.com) on Tue Jun 12 07:54:09 2007

> What common mechanical flaws cause a hitter to foul balls straight back? My son is slumping a bit and fouling balls straight back, some a long distance.

I have noticed that when my son starts fouling the ball back or fouling toward 1st base (right handed hitter), there are two things that I look for:

1) Bending his knees and getting in a good athletic stance.
2) Bat head falling below a 45 degree angle at launch. It seems that the closer his bat gets to being parallel to the ground, the more likely he his to foul the ball back.