hitting under the ball

Dropping your lead elbow and/or rotating your wrists prior to contact is always a good place to look when this happens. Happens with my son also during these early season games, looks great in the cage, nice and relaxed, but when he steps into the box he will tense up, drop his front elbow which causes his wrist to roll prior to contact, which inturn drops the bat head and that nasty pop fly outcome. Just my thoughts

Thanks, I'll be sure to pay closer attention to my wrists and lead elbow. Thanks for the tips.

I do that alot too and I found out that I drop my hands and don't go straight through the ball. I suggest tryin to keep your hands up if you already don't.

just try to focus on the top of the ball a little more and more until you drive it

i used to drop my shoulder which caused the same thing... its caused by dropping ur lead elbow... just work on it... and when u take all ur cuts make sure u r not doing... even if u have to slow down and think about it...

Work with a tee. That cured the problem for me, because you really can't get under a ball on a tee without nailing the tee. Automatically, I adjusted.

As everyone has already said, you are probably dropping your back shoulder... but the main reason u are is probably because u are lunging. From what you say, "doing fine in the cages", i think u are just too anxious and lunging and being too much on your front leg. It took me 1/2 the season to figure out this one for myself. Hope this helps.

I;ve always had a bad habit of dropping my hands in my load. I like to move them back about an inch to load, but got in a habit of dropping them 2 or 3, which put my hands down and made me upercut and hit the bottom half of everything