Bunting softball drills tips to win the game
By Marc Dagenais, MHK, CSCS, ChPC
http://www.softballperformance.com/softball-drills/
In playing a softball game, players should undergo a serious and strenuous softball drills to
execute a winning game
Even though it may not appear as cool as a homerun, or as thrilling as a fast pitch, you should
also work on improving your team's bunting skills.
As you perhaps know already, bunting is an extremely significant expertise most especially in
which you are confronted with circumstances like keeping the softball apart from the fielders.
This includes plays wherein you have to surrender your hitter to let a base runner go to the next
base or the home plate.
The following are some examples of winnable softball drills that would help improve your
team’s bunting skills.
Exercising different bunting types
If you want your players to exercise basic bunting or some types of bunting all at once, here's a
softball drills that would do it:
There should be two players in this drill, a hitter and a pitcher. The pitcher should place itself 25
ft. apart from the softball batter. The pitcher flings balls (10) at the batter individually. Every
sphere could be punched with a definite style of strike with diverse categories depending on the
objective of the exercise.
The pitcher and hitter will now exchange places after the balls are thrown. Another option is for
you to select to group your players in more than a few clusters so that every one of them can
exercise bunting softball drills at once.
Practicing Bunting Accuracy
As a coach, you should also perk up your team's bunting precision to a definite spot in the
playing field. By using this technique they will be taught to bunt the sphere towards a safe zone,
out of the foul line and beyond the reach of the fielders.
In these softball drills, a rope is positioned 15 ft. from the home plate and in a semicircle
extending from one sideline to the other. A pitcher and a catcher should know their defensive
positions. With this drill the pitcher should have a full bucket of balls while the catcher with an
empty one.
The hitters are placed at the home plate where they get two chances at hitting the ball inside the
rope. A booming hit means the hitter will go to the 1st base. But missing two hits means he will
have to run to all bases and return to the home plate.
Runner on Second Base

This is the most usual game situation wherein hitting is used. A hitter hits the ball to give the
runner on the 2nd base adequate time to run to the 3rd.
In this softball drill, these circumstances is simulated with a hitter, a base runner on the 2nd
and basemen on all bases. You should then place yourself on the heap behind the L-shaped
screen to toss the ball or feed the pitching machine. The hitter would then hit the ball to the right
side of the field to allow the base runner to advance to the 3rd base.