COACH LESSON 5 OF 8 • DRAG & PUSH
Lesson 5: Teaching the Drag Bunt
From the Bunting Masterclass — Coach Edition with BK, for baseball and fastpitch softball coaches. Lines up with Player Lesson 5: The Drag Bunt.
VIDEO LESSONCoach Lesson 5 video coming soonRead the lesson below and run it with your hitters.
Learning Objective
By the end of this lesson your hitters can stay in their hitting stance until release, use their side’s drag footwork, and deaden the ball inside 15–20 feet, and you can see it on the Kill Zone score out of 20.
About 30 minutes, plus the practice plan with your hitters.
What to Teach
“Hitter until release. Bunter after it. If the defense sees it early, it’s not a drag, it’s a gift.” A drag only works against defenders standing where they’d…
Coach Lesson 5 is part of the full Coach Edition
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