All Around Game

A good team baseball or softball drill that only takes up only about 10 minutes of time, but covers fielding, throwing, bunting, hitting and running is the all around game.

What this involves is splitting the team into two groups. It will require 3 coachs/adults (one to pitch, one to play 1B, and one to throw grounders/popups) . It is a timed relay type game with the winning team having completed the ‘course’ in the shortest time.

The first player on team one starts by having a ground ball thrown at him at shortstop, he must field it cleanly and make an accurate throw to first. If he does not field it cleanly or makes a bad throw, he must take another one until he does field it and throw it cleanly. After fielding and making a clean throw the player is then given a pop-up to catch and throw to first. Again, he must call-it, catch it cleanly and make a good throw. If not, give him another until he does. Once he completes this, he races in to the home plate area, grabs a bat (already layed out) and a coach will throw him pitches. The batter has to lay down a good bunt (down either line), the batter will continue to receive pitches until he lays down a good bunt. Once he does, he then gets to hit away. If the batter hits a fair ball, he then has to run to first and upon hitting first base, the next person on his team will receive their ground ball to field cleanly and throw to first and the entire process is repeated for all team members.

Each team is timed from the time the first ground ball is thrown until the last batter hits firstbase. If one team has one more player then the other then one player will have to complete the course twice.

This is a fast moving game that the players should love and it should take anywhere from 7-14 minutes depending on the skill level of your team.

Again, there should be a reward for the winning team.

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