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Notice that Bustos buries the knob of the bat in the middle of her bottom hand, thus allowing her top hand to be close to the knob of the bat.
Good observation. She talks about this when she teaches the grip.
Notice that Bustos buries the knob of the bat in the middle of her bottom hand, thus allowing her top hand to be close to the knob of the bat.
I am going to have this girl next year that goes up to bat with her hands about 5 inches apart on the bat.
I have never coached her before and her old coach was ok with her doing this.
Now I have an old machine that is very hard to hit off of. It pitches off the BOTTOM of the wheel and gives proper fastpitch spin and throws kind of a drop. you can also change the location of the pitch easily.
Now this girl can face this machine or a live pitcher and hit EVERY pitch. Shes been playing about 4 years now I guess.
Should I change this grip ? Or let her do it like she has been?
Not saying its for everyone but it is an option that has a lot of success at all levels of play. This style of hitting was actually copied from American baseball legends like Ty Cobb. (He was a pretty decent hitter in his day) Several MLB players also use this grip today.This effectively shortens the bat by the length of the split. Math is hard. This is more stupid than choking up, since it inhibits the wrist action as well.
They also slid into first, with the bodies hitting the ground (and began slowing, vs continued to accelerate) well before the bag.
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Their win doesn't mean that we should emulate them for split grips, and sliding head first. This just means our team was so bad, they beat us even with this nonsense.
Not saying its for everyone but it is an option that has a lot of success at all levels of play. This style of hitting was actually copied from American baseball legends like Ty Cobb. (He was a pretty decent hitter in his day) Several MLB players also use this grip today.
Not advocating everyone change to this style at all, but it's not a bad idea if one was to try it.Ty Cobb hitting in an actual game, looked like this. Just like every other MLB hitter.
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Here are the first two pics I saw from 2020 and 2021 for Harrison. Maybe he tried something for one game, or a certain count. But this is his game swing.
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Make sure you are looking at game swings.
Hands apart is a bad idea.