Hit It Here

I’m fired up.  Baseball season is here!  I’ve already been to a college baseball game this season.  The high school season starts next week.  Youth baseball teams are cranking things up.  With all of the activity, my website, blog, email, and phone have been buzzing with activity. 

With training leading up to this season, I’ve found myself focusing a lot with players on reinforcing the key element to the proper baseball swing and fastpich swing and that is matching the swing plane with the plane of the pitch.  Swing LEVEL…to the ball.  The BALL, not to the ground.  You know, like the best players in the game do?

If you swing down on the ball, then you are “intersecting” the path of the ball giving yourself a small window of timing for contact.  A more productive swing would be to attempt to match the plane of your swing to the plane of the pitch.  Having the bat on the same plane as the ball as long as possible opens up your window of timing for making contact. 

This illustration shows the windows of potential contact.  Why would any hitter consistently give themselves the smaller window of contact?  It simply makes sense to swing on the pitch plane.  It IS the proper baseball swing.

Can you be on plane perfectly everytime you try?  No.  That’s why you see various types of hits.  But attempting to swing level to the ball increases your line drive rate which in turn raises your batting average.  Line drives equal a high batting average.

Swinging on the pitch plane is so important I am constantly brainstorming new ways to train players to do it.  I have several new techniques I am using very successfully with players.  Coming soon to my website, HitItHere.net , you will be able to see videos of training techniques for swinging on plane and other important mechanics of a good baseball and softball swing.

Hey, it’s baseball and softball season.  Yes!

One Response to “The Proper Baseball Swing – Swinging On The Pitch Plane”