Two Bucket-Ball Drill

The Drill is run with two lines of fielders, one at second base, the other at shortstop. Place one player at first and one at thrid to receive throws from the fielders. Second basemen throw to third and shortstops throw to first.

Two coaches stand at either side of home plate, balls are hit to each side of the infield, the players at shortstop throw to first base, players at second throw to third base. 1st and 3rd basemen place the balls into the bucket after catching them. Team with the least errors or most plays in a row without an error wins the competition. Losing team does 10 pushups.

Another variation of the drill eliminates the throws to first and third bases, once the ball is fielded by one of the players at second or and at shortstop, they run over to a bucket and drop the ball in. In order for this to be succdssful, please place a bucket on either side of second base in order to avoid collisions.

Keep the drill moving fast, once the coaches are out of balls, it is the responsibility of one of the fielders to run the bucket of balls back to home plate, then have players switch postiions, the line at second base goes to short and the line at short goes to second.

After running this drill a few times, you made some interesting discoveries about who we thought were infielders and who we did not think were infielders.

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