Hitting Drill: 3 Tee Drill (Baseball & Softball)
Three tees set outside, middle, and inside teach a hitter how the swing changes with pitch location: the hips turn a little farther on each tee as the pitch moves inside, while the swing keeps driving through the ball.
How to Run This Drill
- SETUP: Set three tees across the plate, one on the outer half, one down the middle, one on the inner half, at slightly different heights
- Challenge setting: raise the middle tee a little higher than the other two, so a hitter who loses posture and comes around the outside pitch crashes into it
- Put a ball on all three tees. The hitter takes a normal stance at the plate
- Start with the outside pitch: load back, keep the head back, and rotate through the ball rather than around it. The hips stop short of a full turn
- Move to the middle pitch with the same swing. The hips rotate a little farther than they did on the outside pitch
- Finish with the inside pitch. The hips rotate the farthest of the three
- Reset all three balls and repeat the outside, middle, inside sequence
Coaching Points
- The hips turn farther as the pitch moves from outside to inside, and stop sooner on the outside pitch
- Keep the direction of the swing through the ball. Over-rotating away from it is the common mistake, for young hitters and high school hitters alike
- Hold posture on the outside pitch. Coming around it is exactly what the raised middle tee catches
- The hips stopping is what lets the upper body and the barrel drive through the ball
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