Today I'm going to give you 10 baseball bunting tips so you can learn how to bunt a baseball better.
1) Move up in the batter’s box. When you move up in the batter’s box, you create way more fair territory and a larger margin for error when bunting. This way even if we bunted the ball straight down it's still fair or if we bunt the ball right down the foul line we’ve still got two to three feet of fair territory to work with.
2) Move in on the plate. Moving in on the plate allows us to handle the outside pitch and the inside pitch equally well.
3) Get low in an athletic stable position. As a right-handed batter we want to square up to first base as if we were fielding a ground ball coming from the first base area. This means that, as a right handed batter, we open up our front foot towards third base and move our back foot in towards first base with both feet pointing towards first base. As a left handed batter we want to square up as if we were fielding a ground ball from the third basemen.
4) Put our body in a good position to bunt the pitch. A good pitcher will most likely throw the ball down around our knees to get a weak ground ball, so we want to get our body nice and low to be able to bunt a good strike at our knees.
5) Get the bat right in front of our eyes. If we don’t have the bat right in front of our eyes we can't see the ball coming in for the last six to eight inches before contact.
6) Have our bottom hand down near the knob of the bat and our top hand holding the barrel of the bat in a thumbs up position just below the barrel. Now if the ball was to hit our top hand it's still going to hurt but our hand can come off because of the thumbs up position. Our bottom hand holding the knob is a steering hand or a rudder that allows us to angle the bat so we can bunt the ball in the direction we want.
7) Create and pre-set our angle before that ball is ever thrown. Because our angle is pre-set all the ball has got to do is hit that bat and the ball goes in the direction that we want it to.
8) Square around to bunt way earlier than we think because a well-placed bunt is way more important and crucial for getting on base than surprising the defense or getting out of the batter's box quickly.
9) Know where to bunt the ball. If there is a runner at first base, we want to bunt the ball to first because the third baseman is crashing early and the fielder at first has to hold the runner until the ball is bunted. If there's a runner at second or first and second we want to bunt the ball hard at third base so the third baseman to field it.
10) Know what situations we want to bunt or use bunting to our advantage. If the third baseman has a weak arm and you bunt the ball to them you're probably going to get on base. If the third baseman or the first baseman is playing very deep in the infield a well-placed bunt gets you on base. Let's say that you’re a line drive and hard ground ball hitter and the fielders are playing you deep on the infield so they can increase their range and some of your hits aren't going through. If you bunt one time and it's a well-placed bunt now the infielders are forced to play shallower which gives them less range allowing you to get more hits on low liners and hard grounders over the course of the season.
Chapters:
0:00 - intro
0:25 - 10 tips to bunt better
5:09 - Bunting Challenge
6:07 - outro
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