Hard Practices

yeah we usally run alot, we do spriting and running around the feild, and sometimes when our coach gets really mad he hits us really hard ground balls, and if we miss them he gets really mad, and for every one we miss we run a lap

my coach makes us do this one running drill, where u have groups of 4 and they run around the bases as fast as they can, and u cant stop running until you catch the guy in front of you. and the last 4 players have 2 run for the rest of the practice. Coming from me, its good to be fast on my team.

I think most coaches would run u in that situation, but what does running really do if u are making errors and playing bad baseball. If u want to improve u should field more balls and work harder in ever aspect of the game to make u mentaly tougher. Running is good for u and can help make u a better baseball player, but u should not run durring practice time. U should run after practice.

our coach does nothing

I had a college coach who ran us for 5 hours. He would switch off between us running and him chewing our asses. The last piece of conditioning was putting our field tarp on. He gave us 5 minutes to unroll it, stretch it out, and sandbag it. Wow, those were the days.

Usually, if were making errors, we will do infield/outfield and if you miss a ground ball or fly ball, you have to run or do push-ups. One time he was really pissed off because there were so many errors the previous game that we ran hills for about 20 minutes.

Well, when we are playing bad baseball, our coach takes a much different approach than your coaches. He just sits us down before practice and explains what we're doing wrong, then we just go out and scrimmage eachother and have a "fun" practice. This gets us more excited about baseball instead of downhearted and dejected. It seems to work because we just finished our 2nd consecutive 20-win season and also won the conference title for the first time in 36 years.

i'm a hs player in ny and at my school we start at home and run to 1st, then from 1st to 3rd, then 3rd to home. Then we hit a double, from2nd to home. Then a triple, 3rd to home. Then a homerun.

it depends. if we're playing bad because we're making physical mistakes then we would probably just take a lot more infield and outfield. but if we were losing because of mistakes that indicate a lack of effort or concentration (not running out groundballs or forgetting to cover a base) then we would run and while we were running we would get chewed out.

our high school baseball team had an attitude problem and they had a practice they called "black friday" they did a lot of running and they didn't even touch a baseball. after that they won 10 of 12 and made it to the state semi-final before losing to the eventual champion. they were seeded 4th (out of 5 teams)when the district tournament began.

running is good way to make you think about what you did...but running the whole practice isn't going to make you field the ball better...personally my coach never made us ran but we would do infield practice for a whole practice if we made errors...