Simple Hitting Slump Tips
for Baseball Hitters

Often, the adult baseball coaches try to help with constant advice at too fast a pace.

Especially during the actual baseball game. And then, the bleacher creatures start adding in their two cents.

Before you know it we have everybody in town trying to tell the hitters how to get out of a batting slump.

How to Hit a Baseball:
Remove In-Game Batting Instruction

Professional baseball coaches know this. They work on hitting skills and drills during practice and let the players do their thing when they get up to bat.

Encouraging words only. Pumping players up...not ripping on them for every little twitch or glitch.

Top baseball hitting slump tips begin with teaching baseball at practice and letting the players play during the games.

Everybody is a Batting Coach

No Coaching From the Bleachers

Giving hitters, pitchers, catchers, infielders, outfielders and baserunners too much advice at one time creates mind-clutter. Baseball players just cannot perform freely with too many things to think about at once and try to play baseball.

You see too much coaching especially when batters are at-bat, pitchers are pitching and catchers are behind the plate. We know that youth baseball coaches are notorious for over-coaching and/or nagging on the negative stuff.

Now, you add the parents and spectators from the bleachers adding their two cents and we really get information overload.

Recently, I witnesses this multiple on field onslaught of over advice combined with all the bleacher ‘helper coaches.’ I was umpiring a 7 year old pitching machine league game.

Naturally the firstbase coach and the thirdbase coach gave each hitter their hitting clinic advice tips before and after each pitch.

Then the other two coaches in the dugout would add some more hitting tips between every pitch. Not encouraging words like, “give it a ride” or “take a swing at it. Now that’s the way to swing it.”

No, No. Expert hitting coaches would tell the hitters, “not to swing at the first one’, or “move up in the box,” “Now bend your knees and get that elbow up, squish the bug” and “Hey, you got watch the ball hit the bat.” Too much helping with hitting slump tips.

Batting Slump From Too Much Advise

It is just relentless the onslaught of well meaning but extreme over advising on our batters.

Then immediately after the pitch the post swing Oohs and Aahhs start in. “What are you doing swinging at the high one. I just told you not to swing at the high one.

Now watch the ball hit the bat. If you would listen to me and watch the ball you would be able to hit it.”

After taking the punishing tongue lashing from the on field staff and not to be outdone, here comes the verbal lashing from the bleacher creatures.

Now the mom and dad, grandpa, grandma, and Uncle Bill start in on the batter. “Get that back elbow up now and swing level. Keep your shoulders level…and stop wiggling that bat.” “Be patient now don’t help them out.”

Gag Order: Stop the In-Game Hitting Coach

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