Getting hit in hands when swinging

NJSwampdragons said:

For the 3rd time in four years, my 10-year-old DD has gotten hit in the hands swinging the bat. The prior two times she ended up with broken thumbs; this time she luckily didn't break anything despite it happening against a hard-throwing pitcher.

My question is how common is this?

Her current swing has flaws, but doesn't seem like it should add a lot of risk.

I'm at a loss.

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pattar said:

Where were the pitches located?

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JumboJack said:

I'm going to guess inside (I hope)...

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NJSwampdragons said:

The first two times she was (badly) casting, which has been fixed. But now she drops her hands and points the knob up, which has been a struggle to fix.

This time she hit the bottom hand, not even the top one.

Video, turn off the sound to avoid hearing her scream.

www.flickr.com/photos/43444487@N00/50196202842/in/dateposted/

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Cannonball said:

Without seeing video of her swing, you might want to think about purchasing batting gloves that have padding on the backside of their gloves. I know that they used to make them since I had a hitter who wore them in HS. That was few years ago but I would think that they are still made.

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NJSwampdragons said:

The one company I looked into, Xprotex, went out of business. She also keeps getting hit in thumbs, where they had no protection.

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