Little can be done in 4 days.
Try to shorten the swing. Consider a light bat. When young, and before DD learned how to effectively time different speeds, she carried and used two different weight bats. A heavy one for the slow pitchers, and a lighter one for fast pitchers.
Granted, it was only a stop gap measure. But served her well until she was able to mentally adjust to different pitching speeds.
Every team and player goes through this when moving up in ages. Typically, that is what fall ball is for. Use the fall season to adjust to faster pitching of next springs older age groups. It typically take half the fall season, or more to make the adjustment.
Other techniques I have seen coaches use is to bunt more, or focus initially on getting contact to put the ball in play.
Another thing our team has done, though hard to find and pull off. Get a older, perhaps HS pitcher to pitch batting practice. Almost all these older pitchers can groove the ball for strikes at 50 mph or so and let the youngsters hack away.
Try to shorten the swing. Consider a light bat. When young, and before DD learned how to effectively time different speeds, she carried and used two different weight bats. A heavy one for the slow pitchers, and a lighter one for fast pitchers.
Granted, it was only a stop gap measure. But served her well until she was able to mentally adjust to different pitching speeds.
Every team and player goes through this when moving up in ages. Typically, that is what fall ball is for. Use the fall season to adjust to faster pitching of next springs older age groups. It typically take half the fall season, or more to make the adjustment.
Other techniques I have seen coaches use is to bunt more, or focus initially on getting contact to put the ball in play.
Another thing our team has done, though hard to find and pull off. Get a older, perhaps HS pitcher to pitch batting practice. Almost all these older pitchers can groove the ball for strikes at 50 mph or so and let the youngsters hack away.
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