6 Tips to Improve Hitting with Bunting
Teaching Bunting in youth baseball can be one of the most exciting aspects of teaching kids to hit. Its even more exciting to be involved in a game winning situation involving a bunt. Game winning runs can be won and lost by bunting plays and bunting defense.
- Bunting in youth baseball is a great offensive hitting strategy that moves runners, scores points, and can win games.
- Bunting can help improve hitting skills.
- Bunting puts the team goals first, however you can bunt for base hits and increase your own batting average and respect.
- Every youth baseball player needs to learn how to bunt.
Bunting in youth baseball
Bunting, positive reinforcement and practice, can also help achieve an increase in your teams batting average… while improving your individuals players performance and confidence.
Bunting Tip 1
1) Imagine yourself putting the bunt down. Great players vision success before it happens. If you get the bunt sign from your coach step out and focus and visualize the bunt. Getting your mind right(mental preparation) gives you a huge advantage before you actually attempt the task.
Teach Bunting Tip 2
2) Move to the front of the batters box. You want your bat head out in front of the plate. The reason for this if the ball goes straight down you still have a fair ball and a hard play for the defensive to make.
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Bunting youth baseball Tip 3
3) Hold the bat properly. Hold the bat head up and out in front of the plate. The handle should be down lower than the bat head. This will help you bunt the top of the ball and drive it down. We do not want pop ups when attempting a bunt. We dont approve of holding the bat level for this reason, but is not agreed with entirely among the youth baseball instructors.
Youth Baseball Bunting Tip 4
4) Use your legs not your hands to move the bat according to the pitch. Using your hands can result in the dreaded pop up. Use your legs to lower or raise the bat!
Teach Bunting Tip 5
5) Bunt only strikes. Pull back on bad pitches. Bunting bad pitches can result in pop ups and called strikes.
Bunting youth baseball tip 6
6) Catch the ball with the bat. Do not try to push the bat into the ball. I see this and it usually results in a strike. Hold the bat at the proper angle out in front of the plate and use your legs to move the bat and drive the ball down.
