Softball Drills - Bunting

Although it may not look as cool as a homerun, or as exciting a fastpitch, you should also work on developing your team's bunting skills.

As you probably know already, bunting is important in certain game situations wherein you have to keep the ball away from fielders while hitting it inside fair territory. This includes plays where in you have to sacrifice your batter to let a baserunner proceed to the next base or the home plate.

So here are some drills that will help improve Your team's Bunting skills.

Practice Bunting Different Types

If you want your players to practice basic Bunting or more types of Bunting at once, here's a drill that would do it is:

There should be two players in this drill, a knight and a tosser. The tosser should position 25 meters from the batter. The tosser throws ten bullets on the knights, one at a time. Each ball was taken taken with a certain type of color or with different types depending on the target practice.

The tosser hitter and then be thrown to trade places after ten balls. You can also choose to have your players in different groups so that all groups of them in practice, Bunting at once.

Practice Bunting Accuracy

They should also develop your team Bunting accuracy to a certain area in this field. In this way, they would be trained bunt the ball toward a safe zone from which the foul line and beyond the reach of the fielder.

In this> Drill, a rope is placed 15 meters from home plate and in a semi-circle from one sideline to sideline. A pitcher and a catcher should be in their defensive positions. The pitcher should be fully received from a bucket of balls at the catcher with a blank.

The hitters are positioned on the home plate, where they get two chances at Bunting the ball into the rope. A successful bunt is the knight is at 1 Base go. But missing two Bunts means they have to run toall the basics and return to the home plate.

Runner on Second Base

This is the most common game situation where Bunting is used. A knight Bunts the ball at the runner on the base of the 2nd to give sufficient time for the 3rd run

In this drill, this situation with a knight, a baserunner on 2nd baseman at all centers and simulated. You should then position themselves on the hill behind the L-shaped screen to throw the ball or feed the pitching machine. The Knights would thenbunt the ball on the right side of the field, so that the baserunner 3rd to Basic ahead.

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