fixing a puller

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ok DD has a 87% contact rate on the balls but she pulls everything from a slow to a fast pitcher. and shes been hitting easy deep high outfield hits, I think shes dropping her shoulder a bit hence her getting those, as for pulling should I try her to step out a inch or so to straighten out her hits or is it to step in a inch to straighten them out or is it just a pure timing issue? its starting to drive both of us nuts. I should add she was our #4 hitter b4 I looked at the stats for the weekend tourney which she left 21 runners on base which we cant afford for tourney's, so we moved her down to 7 batter for now until we can get her straightened out and mabey she doesn't need anything either honestly I don't know.
 
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thanks OILF will give that a try, and practice it when it comes to hitting personally Im not even close to a hitting coach always been just pitching with me and my DD has always been a good batter (producing) where as this yr. shes still hitting the ball solid but like I said pulling like crazy and hitting easy balls for the OF to catch cause there skyrockets.
 
Feb 26, 2012
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Indiana
Set a tee on the outside corner of home plate. The tee should be inside her front foot but no deeper than belly-button. Hit line drives between 1B & 2B.

Once she can do this, do same thing with front toss.

Don't have her "step out" to adjust her hitting. Encourage her to pull inside pitches; hit middle pitches up the middle; hit outside pitches to the opposite field...hit it where it is pitched...put the barrel on the ball. Do this off of a tee to learn how...rinse & repeat. Good luck.
 
Oct 10, 2011
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Pacific Northwest
I like deboy's suggestions,

If you are pulling everything, that would mean you must teach taking it where its pitched.

let me throw something out there. The last few sessions I have worked on the low inside bat paths, and instead of pulling the ball, the goal was hitting the ball up the middle.

This involves a steep barrel angle, and a barrel path that does not wrap.
 
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Jun 27, 2011
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North Carolina
It can be a case of having a swing that doesn't allow you to hit a ball that gets deep in the zone.

If you have a swing where hands get ahead of hips, or you don't turn the barrel, or you swing around and not inside out, then you almost have to hit it out front to have any chance of hitting it at all. For hitters like that, it does no good to tell them to let it get deeper or go with the pitch. They don't have the swing for it.
 
Oct 16, 2008
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SE Michigan
In my experience, many pull only hitters have a back arm dominated swing into contact. IOW, the front arm slows or stops moving the knob forward too soon and the back arm turns the barrel ahead of the almost stopped knob. This is the opposite of an inside out swing path. To fix, we do a lot of front arm swings from tee, side toss and front toss with a small bat and sponge balls to train the front arm to finish into extension in addition to some of the other recommended suggestions.
 
Feb 26, 2012
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Indiana
Thanks for all the info guys, we've been doing a lot of practicing on ball placement with the tee's plus we did practice with live pitching from the looks of it she's straightening out but the true test will be this weekends tourney.

Give it some time...1 week of work with a weekend test is not a true indicator of improvement...it's a journey. Good luck this weekend and keep up the good work!
 

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