Alright, we've talked about hitting the inside pitch. We've talked about hitting the outside pitch. Now we're going to talk about hitting the ball up. Up means essentially in the strike zone, as you know it's from right about here, to right about here. Up is essentially this section right in here. That is technically up. Some guys actually prefer it up, some guys prefer it down. Again, with a lot of parts of hitting, it's a personal preference. Now how do you hit the ball up? What a lot of guys want to do is drop and try and go like this to hit a ball up. What's that going to do? If you have a ball that's up already and you're just hitting it up all you're going to do is just hit a huge pop fly. So when the ball is up, like I said from here to here or something like that, you want to make sure you get on top of the ball. You're going to get something like a ground ball, a hard ground ball, or a line drive something like that. How do you do this? Go through, and here comes the pitch. You want to stay on top of the ball. You don't want to let your bat go like this. That's going to create your pop up. Boom, as you can see, if I'm making contact with the ball, it's just underneath my chest, it's still a strike but I'm on top of the ball and I can hit that hard line drive, that hard ground ball. Here we go. Now, boom, just like that. Now again, don't try to get a ball up and try and hit it even higher. It doesn't work. You're just going to hit a pop fly. Unless you're Cecil Fielder and you can power the ball five hundred feet it's not going to do you any good. Make sure you stay on top of the ball, hit hard ground balls, hard line drives.
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