By: Mark Rea

EQUIPMENT: Balls, Buckets, Bats, Gloves, Helmets

Purpose: This drill will help improve your players fielding, throwing, and conditioning skills. You can have the players fielding to their left or to their right, or straight on. This is a good drill for the coaches to evaluate their fielders and help the players improve their playing skills. Good luck and have fun.

This drill is for team fielding using two coaches to hit to your players. All players will be rotating clockwise.

Start by dividing the team into four groups. Groups do not have to be equal in skill. One group and coach will be at the shortstop position lined up away from home plate. One group and coach will be at the second base position. Each coach will have a bucket of balls and each coach is up the line on either side of home plate. First base side hits to fielders at shortstop position; third base side hits to second base fielders.

• The first player at shortstop will field the ball, and throw it to the first catcher in line on the first base side and then rotate to the left to the second base fielders' group.
• The first player at second base will field the ball, and throw it to the first catcher in line on the third base side and rotate to the left to the first base catchers' group.
• The first catcher on the first base side receives the throw from the shortstop position, tosses the ball to the coach where the coach will place it in the bucket. This player will then rotate to the end of the catchers' line on the third base coach's side.
• The first catcher on the third base side receives the throw from second, tosses to the coach or puts it in the bucket. Player then rotates to the back of the line at shortstop.

ALWAYS REMEMBER SAFETY FIRST

There will be several balls in play…everyone must be HEADS UP AT ALL TIMES! Coaches need to exercise caution and good judgment. All players have to hustle to the next position. A minimum of 16 players will help make this deal run smoothly.