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Buckeye 201510,000+ posts

Originally Posted by Jims419:

This might be alittle silly, but I'll ask you anyway...

What is your best advice... My 6 year old son is playing in an 8U Summer Baseball League. When he is batting he makes good contact with the ball and gets a hit almost every at bat (17 out of 19 so far this season), but they are all infield grounders. He is starting to get frustrated that he can not hit the ball as far as the others on his team. How can help him create some power and distance with his hits?

Any advice would be a huge help.

If your stats are right he's batting .895. He may not understand...but just tell him the higher numbers are better. Then pull up the MLB batting leaders. When he sees that the top major league hitters are at .340 and he's .895 he'll understand...and probably think he's pretty darned cool

8/13/148:00 PM

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