How to Catch a Fly Ball in Baseball

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Bill Rogan along with Andy Cornell on behalf of Expert Village. We are going to talk right now about fielding pop ups and fly balls. These should be very easy, they are often not. You have the wind, you have the sun and you have to be able to judge the ball. That is first and foremost. When you see where the ball is coming down, you want to get nice and squared and stay behind the ball, two hands and come into the ball. Couple of things, when the ball is in the air, you want to field it above your head. Make sure you do not put your glove in front of your face because then you might lose site of the ball. Get your glove up there, two hands, field it and coming forward, stay on the balls of your feet. That is for routine fly ball pop ups, other times you are chasing the ball and you have to reach out, you have to reach down. What we talked about earlier, above the waist you want to have the glove up, below the waist you want to have the glove down. Glove up, up, up. Glove down. Glove down when you come in for the ball. Judge it, two hands get yourself in good throwing position. You don't want to catch the ball here or here on a routine fly ball. Andy's hit the ball, drop back, two hands come in to the throw. Catch the ball, turn, come up throwing."