How do you get it out of your system?

I'm not sure I can give you any direct advice on how to let it go, but I will say that the very best players I have met/known are able to "flush" the bad days or bad at-bats quickly. You do need to find a way to flush. You've heard it before, no doubt, but baseball is often a game of minimizing failure. Successes are in the minority as a hitter.

Don't mean to sound flippant here....but have you seen a shrink for OCD in the last couple of weeks

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I'd probably spend an hour and a half hitting in a new stance after the game

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Self talk is invaluable! positive thoughts, visualizations.
Then, flushes, as justball says, if it's a less than great outing...

Head Games is a good book.

tegid,

Chill, you may be your own enemy. After a bad game, sit, regroup, and look back at your abs. Determine the problem. Was it good pitching, bad mental approach, focus, or whatever. I've seen 0-fore game that the hitter had great ab each time up but the pitcher finally got 'em. If you want to penalize yourself, run the poles for each bad ab, don't re-invent the wheel at every bump. Play within yourself, you're going to fail at bat 70% of the time as it is.

Bad days happen---forget about it---my feeling is that by doing what you are doing you are putting more pressure on yourself than you need to

Relax and enjoy the game

Just as an aside, I think you have a quality that in the long run will help you out. I am speaking of your work ethic. Many of the great players in baseball and other sports have been know for their almost obsessive work ethic.

It was common for Nolan Ryan to work out for an hour on the exercise bike after each outing. Cal Ripken took extra infield the day after every game with an error. Its been said that noone works harder in the batting cages than Barry Bonds.

So I think your not on a bad track. But I do think you ought to take rz1's advice, figure out why you had a bad day and then direct that natural work ethic to working on the right mechanics....Dont try and reinvent the wheel, just focus on working on what you can help.

I really don't know that you have to get it out of your system. However, the really good players I have seen, forget about the 0-4's, and forget about the 4-4's. The game of baseball is loaded with failure. If you hit .300, you have failed 7 times to get a hit. Don't dwell on the negative, stay balanced and press on the next day. It will all even out in the end. If you are in a horrible slump at the plate, yeah you might consider extra bp, because something mechanically might be wrong. But going 0-4 in the first game of a doubleheader, has nothing to do with the next game. Don't get too high, or too low. Cheers.

Get a copy of any of Dorffman's books THE Mental ABC's of Baseball.Very helpful for my son who struggled with the frequent failures that baseball delivers.