Why do i keep striking out

You'll miss pitches you should have driven, take emergency swings in hitter's counts, and struggle to put the ball in play when you're facing adversity. To be confident, change what you think success is from getting a hit to winning the at-bat and helping your team win the ball game.

To have the right approach, think about driving the ball hard up the middle with intent to do some serious damage. It is a tough pitch to hit. Therefore, they do not miss opportunities early in the count unless they are sitting on a pitch.

Sometimes sitting on a pitch is smart, but if you are a youth player do not worry about that. If you see a fastball in the first two or three pitches, then go for it! If you swing at the first pitch and miss, you still have two other opportunities.

You have three strikes for a reason, to swing at them and not to watch them. Developing better bat speed equals acceleration. It will ultimately give you more power, but also more time. How do you achieve this? One of the things we teach at Baseball Rebellion is understanding your body and how the body works. Whether you see us in-person or online, then you are going to understand what this means.

We have a very systematic approach that is athletic and explosive. The first motion determines the rest of the swing and how fast your bat speed is, but first, you have to understand how your body works in order to achieve a better bat speed and acceleration time. What does it mean by understanding your misses?

If you're missing the ball and striking out or foul tipping, you're missing in generally four ways. You are swinging too early. Meaning the ball is too far out in front of you and the barrel is coming across the plate before the ball reaches the catcher.

Meaning the ball is too deep for the batter to decide to swing. This relates back to making accurate decisions early. Therefore, you can let the ball get closer before you have to take your hack.

However, if you do know what you are doing wrong and why then you will not resolve the problem. You might be explosive and have good bat speed, but if you do not know how you are missing then you are never going to fix it. You can figure out your mistakes by having your at-bats recorded and review them later on. You must be logged in to post a comment. Check out this video about head position and bat acceleration. This gives a hitter more time to decide if he should swing.

Also, this extra time gives the hitter more information about pitch type, speed, and location. More information leads to fewer swings and misses. Another great benefit of more information is less swinging at balls out of the strike zone.

Joey Votto is a great example of this as his plate discipline is out of this world. You can see that Votto swung at 'clear balls' very rarely in the season. To put this into perspective, Votto saw over 1, pitches last season and had a chase rate of just Votto also was very successful in 'moving the baseball', meaning putting the ball in play only striking out in It is counterintuitive to think that swinging more often early in the count will lead to fewer strikeouts.

However, taking advantage of the pitcher wanting to throw strikes is key. Use that to your advantage as a hitter and take the game to them! Practicing turning your head back to the ball will lead to a huge early bat speed advantage. So turn your passive approach into aggression and turn your neck to hit. More bat speed and fewer strikeouts will be your instant reward. Agree with all above. I believe many youth baseball players, and even some at a higher level, do not have the correct pre-swing thought process.

They decide to begin the swing based on when they see a probable strike. I think this swing thought is absolutely wrong; the eye—brain-body connection cannot possibly react quickly enough. My older son who was 5ft6" at age 11 hit best with a 30" andersen techzilla. He's swinging 31" bbcor now at 13U and 5ft10". So when I see kids who are barely 4ft tall swinging 32" bats I have to laugh. Kris Bryant is 6ft 5" and swings a 33" bat much of the time. Have the kid go down an inch and see if that helps.

He can also try choking up a bit. Right now he's letting it fall behind him, below horizontal. A good starting point is to have the bat near vertical, but with the knob pointed slightly toward the catchers feet, and the barrel tilted slightly back behind the batter, toward third based. See frame 1 from Chris O'Leary's pujols flip book for a good reference photo. I don't buy into a lot of gadgets but I find this one really works for getting rid of casting.

Have the kids hit wiffle balls or some other soft ball off a tee that is set a little further toward the catcher than usual so the contact point is just in front of their navel. Set the tee high, and have them work to hit straight line drives. Ad Widget. Yes No.