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Wednesday, May 5
OFFENSIVE TIP OF THE WEEK
A short stroke, which is quicker, allows you to use gravity to your advantage. In a short stroke, you are swinging down on the ball and using the weight of the bat to your advantage rather than trying to lift the weight of the bat into the plane of the pitch.
Wednesday, May 5
DEFENSIVE TIP OF THE WEEK
When you are playing a team for the first time and don't know where their players hit the ball, keep an eye on the base coaches on the other team. When a pull hitter comes up, the coach will usually back away from the coaching box or baseline...he doesn't want to get hit with a batted ball.
Quotable & Noteable
"I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over."
-Don Drysdale
"You can't hit what you can't see."
-Walter Johnson
"Walter Johnson's fastball looked about the size of a watermelon seed and it hissed at you as it passed."
-Ty Cobb
The 9 Rules of Pitching Success:
1.Hitters with a LONG SWING or STIFF FRONT ARM should be thrown fastballs on the inside half of the plate.
2.Hitters that HOLD THE BAT STRAIGHT UP AND HIGH normally have trouble hitting the high fastball. Most likely this hitter likes the ball low and is cabable of hitting the low pitch very hard!
3.Hitter has a CLOSED STANCE or STEPS HARD INTO THE PLATE. This batter should be pitched in on the hands so throw the solid fastball on the inner half of the plate.
4.The hitter LUNGES AT THE BALL and does not keep the weight back! This type hitter has a hard time making consisitent contact when you effectively mix fastballs in and off speed pitches away!
5.Hitters that TAKES A LONG STRIDE are almost always good low ball hitters. This hitter is normally overly agressive and has trouble hitting when the pitcher changes speeds and has good high heat!
6.Anytime you find yourself in a hit and run situation make sure to throw hard fastballs on the inside half of the plate to prevent the hitter from punchig or driving the ball to the opposite field.
7.Throwing a two-strike change-up is asking for trouble. The best counts for changeups are 1:0, 2:0, 2:1, and 3:1.
8.Use the SHAKE-OFF SIGN to break the rthymn of a batter. Make the batter think you have more pitches than you have and that you have confidence in throwing every one of them!
9.THROW YOUR 0:2 PITCH WITH A PURPOSE. The perfect 0:2 pitch makes the batter chase a bad pitch and get himself out! However, the 0:2 pitch must also be used to get a batter off the plate so that you own the outer half or to set-up your perfect 1:2 pitch for the OUT!
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Bragg Rocket Baseball presents Dinner with Elvis
Thanks to all who gave their time,donations and attended the Bragg Baseball Elvis Dinner Friday night. This was a big success and will help Bragg Baseball for years to come by providing money to set new goals and fund new ideas to give Bragg Baseball the best chance for success.
Thank you, Thank you very much.
Rockets get the 'Tripple Dippa'
Great day for Rocket Baseball as Bragg defeated Bottenfield
then took two from the Panthers the hard way with big wins in the bottom of the last inning.
Lots of new pictures from the last few games have been added under Rocket Albums and more will be added daily.
Pictures have been added under Roster.
Rockets get the 'Double Dippa' over Briarwood
Pictures added under Rocket Albums.
ESPN Play of the game.
Game 1 : Hunter Bush's diving catch in CF.
Game 2 : Landon Kelley's diving line drive catch at 2b.
Game 1 :Andrew Campbell pitched a great game and Travis Key came in to close it out.
Game 2 : Jered 'Higgy' pitched a strong game and
Connor and Jeremy came in and finished up. The game got close at the end but the Rockets rallied to shut the door on the Lions.
Former Bragg Softball player at Auburn
She may be in big time College sports now but she is still known as
Conner's sister to all of us.
Way to go Kristina !!!
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