Good question in other forum....

I copied this from the baseball forum. Put this into softball, as we all have seen teams do this as well.....What do you think TBR?

#1 03-03-08, 04:10 PM
moesyslak
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pregame infield

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I watched a game friday and i remember several from the last few years and i have a few observation and questions regarding pregame infield.To put my remarks in context i played hs,college and pro ball in the 70's and coached at 2 different colleges in the 80's. When we used to do infield and others teams did this too we sent out our starters and maybe 1 extra infielder and 1 extra outfielder and 2 catchers for infield. each outfielder threw 1 to second and third and 2 to home. then the infield took their routine and came in all in less than 10 minutes.the pregame infield was always short and snappy and meant to make the players look good and give nothing away to the other team. the outfielders usually took it 20 feet closer than they normally played and always got ball to throw that they always were moving in on to make their arms look good. The infielders never had to throw from the hole and had easy ball to throw on.You never wanted to expose your arms to the other team.

I have observed teams sending every player on their team out sometimes I've seen 4 outfielders at every position. I've seen them have 2 throws to second for each player and then 2 to third for each player at this point (and I've seen many teams do this)the guys hitting infield shoots one to the wall in each gap and to the corner foe each guy with the cf going to each gap all the way to the fence. They are hitting balls all the way to the fence exposing their outfielders arms. They then hit one deep for each outfielder to throw home ,2 to normal depth and then they bring them way in to throw another one home.Each outfielder throws 2 to second ,4 to third and 4 home and when there's several outfielders it takes forever to do this. These infield routines take over 20 minutes each.

My question is why do they take so many players out there?Why do they give teams a free scouting report by hitting balls deep that expose their arms and is there a time limit on infield practice or just whenever you're through then that's okay.

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Last edited by moesyslak : 03-03-08 at 04:13 PM.

 

We run it just like baseball

We are the only junior college I know of that takes complete infield/outfield on the field. We can only do it at home games becuase nobody else will let us. In the rule book it gives you 8 min. At home we allow 15 but usually get done around the 9 min mark, (we time ourselves). Do high schools, or colleges in your area take complete infield/outfield? Most here just split up on the sides.

Normal pregame day for us at home versus away for 4:00 game

Home

2:00-2:45 Bp on field
2:45-3:15 Run/stretch/throw while the visiting team hits bp on field
3:15-3:30 Infield/outfield on entire field
3:30-3:45 Get ready to drag, line, and prepare the field while the visiting team is taking infield/outfield
3:45-4:00 Drag, line, prepare the field and paint bases for 4:00 game

Away
2:45 go through hitting stations
3:15 Run/stretch/throw
3:45 Take balls on the side