Little League Baseball Games – Track the Ball

Coming up with new ideas for drills for little league baseball games can sometimes be a challenge.  Here’s a drill sent in by Albert that will improve your teams outfield performance.

From Albert…
This is a baseball drill I made up myself.

It is to practice with outfields on how to track a ball.

I place a ball on the ground behind a fielder.  Then, I tell the fielder to chase the ball and pretend it will fall where I placed the ball on the ground.

What this does is allow me to concentrate on teaching the kids on how to go about tracking a ball.  I teach them the footwork, body work etc.  I emphasize to them that they have to get their body in a position where they can catch the ball.  Sometimes I place a ball straight behind them, to see their footwork to track the ball.

Kids in general have a lot of problems tracking flyballs or line drives hit right behind them.  Also, I will sometimes place the kids a few steps from the wall.  Then I throw short popup flys that will hit the wall.

In this drill, we work on how to approach the wall.

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