How to Catch & Field a Ground Ball: Learn How to Play the Game of Baseball

"Hello! My name is Adrian Arceo and I am here with expertvillage.com. Now we are going to get in some ground ball. Now it is important to remember the more often or not, the ball is not going to come up and hit you on the face. So always remember to stay down on the ball. Now let's get into the technique. Now when you are getting ready to field the ground ball, you never want to bend at your waist or your back. You want to make sure that you bend your knees and that you butt gets low to the floor; so you are something like this. Next thing you want to remember is to keep your glove down on the ground. Remember you don't want your glove here and then you have to go down for a ground ball. It is always better to have it low and have to come up with it. Next thing your throwing hand. You always want to make sure you have it close to your glove. So say a ground ball is coming in like this. As soon as a ball gets into your glove, you want to make sure your hand is somewhere around right here. That way you are ready to reach in there and pull the ball out, and you are able to set your feet and throw. Also you don't want the ball to come too close into your body. Otherwise the ball is just going to eat you up and you are going to have a harder time throwing the ball. So as soon as the ball gets to about right here, if you can, go after the ball and get this little scoop action going. Remember to keep it throwing hand close. That way you can go after it, and you are going to have an easier time making a throw. So as the ball gets to about right here, you kind of go scoop out for it and then with your throwing hand reach into the glove, set your feet and throw and that's how you catch a ground ball."