How to Hold a Baseball Bat

Series Summary

Baseball is a sport played with a bat and a ball. In baseball, there are two teams of nine players each, and the goal of is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged ninety feet apart at the corners of a diamond. Offensive players take turns hitting while the defense tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in a number of different ways. A player on offense can stop at any of the bases and try to score on a teammate's hit ball. The teams switch between offense and defense whenever the team on defense records three outs. One turn on offense for each team makes an inning, and nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game is the winner.

Hitting a fastball is one of the most basic skills in all of baseball. Anyone can throw a fastball, and any batter can learn to hit one. Whether a fastball is thrown outside, inside, high, low, or down the middle, these video instructions will show you how to change your swing to hit it effectively. Start with gripping the bat and move on to shifting your weight for a balanced swing. Our expert will throw in some common hitting mistakes as well. With these training videos, you'll be able to drive any belly itcher's fastball out of the park!

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Juan Carlos with Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to hit a fastball. In this section we're going to tell you how to grip this bat. Now very very important that if you are a right hander that your top hand is your right hand that, that's your power hand. The bottom hand is your control hand your contact hand. The way we grip this bat is we definitely want to leave a little bit of flexibility here on top but also the most important this is not line knuckles right here. Not the knuckles over here but the knuckles right here this will give us better control as we go through the zone and improve your hitting ability."