Hot Box Drill

The hot box softball drill is designed to work on girls footwork, arm motion, catching, and throwing.

Start by positioning a girl at the pitching rubber, a girl at each base, and the remaining girls lined up along the fence in front of first base dugout.

Give a ball to the girl on the rubber (make sure coach has extra balls ready to replace bad throws so that you do not waste time chasing balls). Have the girl on the rubber throw the ball to the girl at home plate who in turn returns the ball to the girl on the rubber. Then the girl on the rubber pops and throws the ball to third, then second, and finally to first base. (By the term pop I am referring to girl pivoting to her target, pointing her left foot and glove to her target, arm at shoulder level, hand above arm with ball facing back, and finally throwing the ball). As soon as she receives the ball from first base, she drops the ball straight down and everyone rotates running to their next position. The girl on the rubber goes to the end of the line, the girl at the front of the line goes to home plate, home plate to third base, third base to second base, second base to first base, and first base to rubber.

Repeat until every player has been in the hot box 2 times then have the girl on the rubber throw to home, then first, then second, and finally third base.

Again focus on footwork and arm motion. The rotation will be from rubber to back of line, front of line to home, home to first, first to second, second to third, and third to rubber.

Make sure players throw the ball hard, no lobbing! At first the weaker players might be afraid, but you will soon see a big improvement on catching, footwork, and quicker releases when throwing.

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