Charging a Ball in Baseball

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Bill Rogan along with Andy and on behalf of Expert Village, we're going to talk a little bit about charging a slow hit baseball. If it's a rocket shot, you really don't have time to charge it, but any ground ball you want to charge, so you have your momentum going toward the throw, but especially a slow hit roller you're going to have charge, scoop, and throw all in one motion. It's very difficult. It takes a lot of practice. You should always know how fast the runner is. If it's a slow guy, you can take a little bit more time, but if it's a really fast guy, you're going to have to be quick yourself. You don't want to go so fast where you over run the ball or make a bad throw. You want to come in, scoop it off your front foot or the left foot. You want to scoop, come up, and throw. If you can use 2 hands, all the better. Sometimes when you're playing third, you may have to feel it bare handed, which is a very difficult play to make. Andy's going to hit some here and I'll try and demonstrate charging the ball. Ball comes in, scoop, and throw. Get that ball to your hand quick. Slow hit roller, you charge, 2 hands, come up, throw. Stay low. That's a slow hit ball. "