How to Mentally Prepare for a Baseball Game

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 is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged 90 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. In this free video series, a baseball swing analyst and hitting coach explains and demonstrates how to calculate some of the most commonly used baseball statistics. Learn how to calculate total bases, batting average, earned run average, fielding percentage and on-base percentage, among others. Additionally, tips are provided on mental preparation for baseball games and hitting baseballs.

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Jamie Cevallas I'm going to discuss today how to mentally prepare for a baseball game. And what I see players do often times is they want to listen to music before a game and they want to pump themselves up and then they go and they have a double header and they are tired out by the time the game begins. Basically baseball is a very slow game, it's more a game that is characterized by a lot of down time with a little bit of important moments sprinkled in. So you need to mentally prepare in a proper way. I would advise you not to listen to music, I would advise you to relax as much as you can. Joke around with your fellows ok. This will really help you relax for a baseball game it's something I didn't do in the beginning very often. It is good to joke with your friends, laugh, make fun of them, let them make fun of you, hey it's a way to relax. Ok so it's a very important method of getting ready for a game. Ok another way to relax is if you are more of a person who likes to stay within themselves, ok a great way to relax is simply relax your heart beat, get in a relaxed state and visualize yourself hitting the ball the way that you want to hit the ball during the game. And that is an art. Visualization is something that you do need to work on. So I recommend you visualize yourself hitting the ball the way that you want to hit it, hitting the ball far, hitting the ball hard and even rounding the bases. Hear the crowd cheering, also something that you may not hear from a lot of people you do want to visualize yourself failing and visualize yourself reacting positively to that failure. That's very important too. We are all going to fail and you have to be ready for that as well. So visualize the good, visualize the bad, but most important visualize your response to whatever happens and make it a positive one. My name is Jamie Cevallas and this is preparing for a game in the mental arena."