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Click Here for Some Great Hitting Tips
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If you are not sure if
your game in Oglesby is rained out, please follow the steps listed below: 1. Listen to the following radio stations: WLPO 1220 AM, WAJK 99.3 FM, WKOT 96.5 FM 2. Call the
Oglesby Parks and Recreation office at 883-8121 after 3 PM for If you do not hear anything, your game will be played as scheduled.
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The batting cage will once again be open when the season arrives, and we want everyone to enter and exit through the south end, where we have put in a pulley system to raise the net by pulling a rope. Please use it and enjoy it, but please take care of it. Remember, it belongs to all of us!
Hitting for contact and power
Start in normal batting stance
Stay balanced on the inside balls of feet, knees in slightly.
Keep Bat up, loose finger grip.
Keep your hands shoulder height, arms relaxed.
Keep your head straight up over torso, chin to front shoulder, eyes level toward
pitcher.
Get up on balls of feet with body leaning only slightly into plate.
Keep your weight on back foot.
Load and Launch
Do short timing, step forward, as arms pull back and up - opposite
directions.
Keep your head steady over torso.
For flatter, sweeping, power stroke, pull your wrists back, tilt back first,
then sending bathead backwards before it arcs out.
OR
For quicker, inside-out stroke, aim knob of bat toward pitcher, as your body
stays back.
Either way take your hands forward first, inside the ball path, keeping the
barrel back.
Rotate around your torso.
Bring your back knee forward and let your back foot roll in. (We used to say 'squish the bug' but now it's more 'knee in'.)
To continue with a flat-sweep stroke, open your front shoulder slightly and
sweep your arms in an arc which brings the bat head down to a swing through the
zone that's level with the pitch.
OR
To continue inside-out stroke, keep your hands and barrel between the ball and
your body, then flick the barrelhead forward as you extend your arms.
Either stroke - keep your hands flat. The knob hand should be on top of the bat,
former top hand comes under the bat. One palm facing up, one facing down.
Follow through and go
Let arms extend out, bathead sweep up and around. Finish high.
To do a one-hand release - after contact - let the bat slide off the hand
underneath, open the front shoulder fully, with the lead arm still extended
OR
To maintain two-hand contact, bring the front elbow in - like a pitcher's
throwing motion - and finish with both your hands to shoulder height. (Sometimes
called a 'punch swing' - back arm moves forward like a boxing undercut.)
Bust out of the box hard. !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Check ball's flight only once on your second, third, or fourth
step from box - depending on how hard you hit it, it should be at the fielding
arc by then. You'll know if its through, then pick up first base coach for
signs.
Some tips...
Keep your head steady through out your swing. As your body rotates beneath, your
chin doesn't move but goes shoulder to shoulder.
While the steps are broken down, this isn't a sequence - everything happens
smoothly together.
Power swings work best on counts favoring batter - 0/0, 1/0, through 3/1. On
0/2, 1/2 a tighter, more direct, a punch swing will improve bathead control.
