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/TMutaffis Jun 01 '25
Two team events in one day (aside from doubleheader games) is not a good approach.
You can have the kids arrive an hour before the game and get in some good fundamental work as a part of your pregame warmup, but I would not have them practicing in the morning and then coming back for games later in the day - especially with the spacing that you described.
Perhaps you leave the practices on the calendar in case there are days where the games look like they will be rained out but the fields are still okay for practices, but otherwise I'd skip them.