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Lesson 5:
Pitcher Cover First
This FUN game helps players practice the route they should take to cover first base on an infield ground ball when they are pitching.
In addition, players who catch the ball, then should make a second play on a runner who is rounding third base and heading home. It is ALWAYS important to make sure a player thinks of a second play after the first play!
Instructions:
Have a line of players at the pitcher’s mound
Have a line of players to run from home to first
Coach should be play first base to flip ball to pitcher coming to cover first base
(Optional) Have a line of players running from third to home, pitcher should think a play ahead and get the out at first base and then throw home to get a potential second out.
Coach says go and pitcher runs around the cone to the line and the up the line to first base (not in a straight line).
Coach flips the ball to pitcher when player reaches first base.
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Over the 38+ years of coaching baseball, all the baseball drills I used and all of the practice templates I have created, as well as camps and coaching different levels and ages of kids, I have learned some valuable things about how to run a baseball team. I want my players to smile and have fun! Youth Baseball Practice has to engage kids while helping them learn the game step by step. We encou...
