A-Mac League Game - Happy to Report Progress

A-Mac had a league game last night against the Mississauga North Tiger Novice I Team. Her team, the Blazers, won quite easily. A-Mac played 3rd base the entire night and made quite a few (6-7) throw outs at first base.

More importantly, she batted 4 times and hit the ball to the left side 4 times. She had two pop -ups, a hard grounder and a line drive single to the grass between left and center field. The pitching was slower than what she had faced the last weekend. Most importantly her step timing looked good. I do not think she swung at, and missed a pitch the entire evening.

We batted for 45 minutes into the screen, in a corner, at Lil Lefty's practice before A-Mac's game. A-Mac still does not seem to drive the ball in the batter's box the way she does when she practices. I measured the speed of the ball coming off a Tee when hit by A-Mac at 50-52mph. We will monitor that speed to gage improvement. Our list of things to work on:

1. Watch the ball from the pitcher's hand to the bat (always on the list)
2. Load and step timing (only one step, balance, rhythm...)
3. No "gate swing" (step, hips to build torque, hands stay back and then hands move...)
4. Sweet spot of the bat
5. Experiment with finish - hand on or off bat