Leading Off Base Running Drill: This is a simple and easy drill to use in your practice that will teach your players how to lead off the base properly, how to dive back to the base properly on a throw down and to create an awareness on when to steal.
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Setup of Drill: Have a Coach explain the drill and why we do it this way and then have someone demonstrate it. One coach should be on pitching rubber and another coach at first base explaining the drill. Have all your players gather around first base.
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Step 1: Demonstration: Do the drill on 1st base. Ask your players, where they should be standing on the base. Then show them, they should be on the far side of the base, with their left foot touching the middle of the base.
Instruct them to watch the pitcher and then leave the bag, as soon as the ball leaves the pitchers hand and too properly time this, every single time. Very Important to emphasize this, in order to not be called out for leaving the base too early.
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Step 2: Have the player lead off, looking at Home plate, to anticipate the play. Then ask the players, if there is a throw down to 1st Base, how should they be going back to the base? Have someone demonstrate, player should be diving back to the base, head first with their left back to the far outside part of the bag, to avoid the tag from the 1st basemen.
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Step 3: Ask your players if they understand the drill and then have all your players line up on the first base line, ready to lead off. If they want to use a glove, throw down base, anything they they can touch to simulate where they should be touching when diving back.
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Step 4: First time doing this, have the coach on the mound pretend to pitch. As soon as that coach comes to the bottom of their release point, the other coach says: GO! and all the players come off the bag to lead off together and looks at home plate. Coach then says: BACK! And all the players at the same time, dive back into the line (equipment) with their left hand going in first base line to touch the line (equipment). Do this over and over until it looks natural and everyone looks unison, doing it properly.
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Step 5: Now Introduce the next step, which is to do the exact same drill but the coach on the mound will now pitch an actual ball, to simulate the ball leaving their hand (you can have a catcher for them) and the other coach will not tell them to GO! This time, they will come off the base on their own when they see the ball leaving the coaches hand and they all come off the bag and lead off, and now the coach will either say: BACK! Or GO!, when they hear GO, they turn and run hard towards 2nd Base. Explain to them GO, should be instant if any of the following happens: PASS BALL or a DROPPED BALL. Also let them know, every player is different in terms of their speed and should know their capabilities.
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