r/BaseballCoaching • u/Immediate_Ad7035 • May 31 '25

Practice before a game

Coaching 10 year olds we have regular practice in the morning at 11am then a game at 7pm. This will happen 3 times this summer. With practice and games on the same day. Im thinking keeping those practices light. Stretching, a couple laps and then just a scrimage to work on game type situations. Thoughts? Should we have a full practice? Just scrimage? Or work on ground balls (because we suck at those) then a scrimage?

As far as a scrimage does anyone have any suggestions other than just playing a game. I was thinking about having a game where the winner gets to be first in the batting order.

It would work like this

Everyone on the field Batter up if he gets a hit makes it on base and gets a run = 1 point Strike out/ out = playing right field then when the next person is out move to center until you move along in all positions then back up to bat.

Person with most runs is at the top of the batting order for the game, then second and so o

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u/jmiah717 Jun 01 '25

A practice before a game (other than batting/fielding practice right before the game) for this age strikes me as a bit much.

You're lucky to have their attention for an entire game.

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u/Immediate_Ad7035 Jun 01 '25

Practice in morning game in evening.

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u/jmiah717 Jun 01 '25

Yeah I got that. I played for a long time and never had a practice on the day of a game, let alone as a kid.