Learning ball placement

Dandan111 · May 14, 2017

My daughter is 10, pitching 10u rec. She's been doing great, pitched first two games. -we won
Both!
The coach has been working with us a day a week hit and mis. He told me she's doing great
And it's time to work with on ball placement.
She had a tendency to throw inside so I thought it might be fun to get her placing outside.
she seems to be doing fine with the outside pitches.
Should I just leave her alone with this for a while? All she throws is 4 seam fastball.
What's next? I don't want to overwhelm her.

Annesdad · May 14, 2017

Dandan111 said:
My daughter is 10, pitching 10u rec. She's been doing great, pitched first two games. -we won
Both!
The coach has been working with us a day a week hit and mis. He told me she's doing great
And it's time to work with on ball placement.
She had a tendency to throw inside so I thought it might be fun to get her placing outside.
she seems to be doing fine with the outside pitches.
Should I just leave her alone with this for a while? All she throws is 4 seam fastball.
What's next? I don't want to overwhelm her.

Change up is next! Mine throws a flip change and it's awesome to watch when she throws it! There are a number of different ways to throw it but this one apparently is most difficult to pick up as a batter. Batters have no idea what to do with it when it's coming to them at this age.

Good luck and have fun!!

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Rocketech1 · May 14, 2017

To become more accurate, I always finished pitching practice with DD in a drill called "sequences". Pretend there is a batter at the plate and your DD has to strikeout 6 batters using different locations (e.g. high inside, low and away, etc) keeping track of the pitch count. If she "walks" a batter, you start the count over. When she has a change-up, you incorporate this into the drill. It's a fun game (drill) at the end of pitching practice to make her focus on pitch location, pitch strategy, and developing a command of her pitches.

sluggers · May 14, 2017

For placement. the drill you want to do with your DD is called "quadrants" or "corners".

Low inside, followed by high inside, followed by high outside, followed by low outside...then repeat, over and over and over agin.

She doesn't get to move from "low inside" to "high inside" until she throws a low inside pitch.

As your DD gets better, you make it more difficult by requiring that all the pitches are on the river.

Ken B · May 15, 2017

Taking sluggers' suggestion and turning it into a game called 4 Corners: Count how many pitches it takes to nail all four corners.

djcarter1966 · May 15, 2017

Just make sure as she is trying to hit her spots her mechanics are not breaking down and she is not AIMING. You can probably tell just looking...but if you have a radar gun I would not tell her what you are doing but just tell her to throw her normal fast just like she was trying to throw it past a batter good and hard for five pitches. Now when she plays corners if her speed drops off more than just a couple MPH don't let it count...since you said all she has is fastball her pitches should all be within about five MPH give or take.

Coach JV · May 15, 2017

It's never too early to begin placement drills if she is throwing accurately at 10U.
Four corners is an excellent drill. She is young so be patient,

for the typical age groups:
'10 U "I hope she can throw strikes"
'12U- "If she throws strikes consistently we will win"
'14U- "why is she trowing strikes over the middle?"
'16U+- "she better only be throwing to the black or its HR time"

For many crazy pitching parents:
"my dd is 10 and can effectively throw 7 pitches at 60 MPH"

Dandan111 · May 15, 2017

She throws strikes but not consistent. We get enough stikes the other coach starts telling his kids to swing. Fun time,
I buy a hot dog and coke and enjoy the show!

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