In my research looking for resources for baseball lessons, I found many baseball websites that provide great information on baseball lessons and some that don’t.
In this article, I’m going to go over a very important baseball lesson on “Knowing Your Strike Zone,” because as you know, if you swing at pitches that are NOT strikes, you will be the one striking out yourself as opposed to the pitcher. A BIG PROBLEM that many baseball instructors don’t cover!
I’m going to go over a baseball lesson on how to develop and know your strike zone so it’s second nature to you. You do NOT want to swing on pitches that are NOT strikes. So how do we condition our body and mind to recognize what is a strike and what is a ball?
Very simply, DON’T swing on BAD pitches during batting practice, even though your hitting coach or other players say it’s just batting practice, just swing, because what you do in practice you’ll do in the game. Let this be a baseball lesson for you. If it’s a ball outside the strike zone in batting practice, DON’T TURN ON THE COURT, IT’S SIMPLE.
Learn to have a great eye during batting practice and you will have a great eye during the game.
I once heard a story and great baseball lesson about major leaguer Frank Thomas and how his high school baseball coach would make Frank run wind runs if he swung at a bad pitch, and said that’s why I had such a good eye at home. department. Frank hated the idea of having to run if he swung at a bad pitch, so he made a point of not swinging at these bad pitches and only swinging at strikes. It’s not easy to have such a good eye for a big guy like Frank Thomas, who’s 6-foot-5 and has a big strike zone because of his size, but what he did in practice led to what he did in the game. . This is a baseball lesson you’ll want to remember.
Great hitters of all time will tell you that getting a good pitch to hit is the key to success when hitting a baseball. Let this be a baseball lesson that you don’t just read about, but actually start implementing during your batting practice each week and each day. Throwing strikes only during batting practice, you’ll quickly notice that during your actual baseball games, you’ll strike out a lot less. Even better, you’ll swing only at pitches that are in the strike zone, so you’ll dramatically increase the number of hard lines you’ll hit instead of completely missing the ball, fouling, picking up, or rolling. . This baseball lesson can easily make the difference between being benched by your baseball coach vs. be the MVP of your team.