[gettysburgfreak]

A typical day at practice would go as follows:

3:00- Get up to the field, gear up
3:15- Coach runs down what we will be doing for the days practice

Everyone jogs down to the right field foul line near the foul pole. We formed into two lines jogged to center field and then jogged back to the foul pole. We formed into rows of 6 people, with two captains leading stretches. Run through the various arm and leg stretches. At that point infielders, catchers, and outfields went with our coach and ran the bases while the pitchers would begin our throwing, the rest of the team would join when they were done running the bases. Pitchers made sure to get a good long toss in. Once we were done with that pitchers would make their way to the mound where we would do covering first drills until the rest of the team was done throwing.

From there we would be dived into groups. Our assistant coach would go and hit fly balls to the outfielders, catchers would work on catching drills such as drop and blocks, and pitchers would work on drills with the infielders such as working on comebackers. Coach would hit a ground ball to the pitcher and we would have to work on correct footwork throwing the ball to second so they could turn a double play. Once that was all done as a team we might work on situations where coach would hit the ball somewhere and you had to make the correct play. Other times we would work on pop ups to the third base side and first base side and the pitcher had to back up the correct base.

With the remaining 45 min or so hitters would take batting practice. Pitchers would be in the outfield shagging balls with the players not hitting or going down to the track to run our mile and do sit ups.

The main thing for pitchers is conditioning! You need stamina and a strong lower body.