Fun Baseball Drills and Games

Having said that, there is a time and place for fun baseball drills. How many times have you and your players had to sit around waiting on umpires before a game? The players get antsy and probably are going to get in trouble with you. Won’t it be better to have a fun baseball drill for them to play?

Or maybe you have had to play a string of games over the last few days. You know the boys need to throw the baseball around a little, but you don’t want to have a hard practice. Pick a couple of these fun baseball drills and let the boys practice and relax at the same time.

Baseball Tip – The Game of Pepper

It is a simple game or drill to play. One player or coach, with bat in hand, stands in front of a group of five to seven players, who are in a line. The coach or player with the bat (batter) should probably be about fifteen feet away from the line of players. The players in the line should be about five feet spread apart.

One player in the line will have a baseball. He starts the drill by tossing the ball towards the person with the bat. The batter then hits a ground ball or line drive to a random player in the line. Those players can have gloves or not, depending on how hard the baseball is going to be hit back.

The player catches the ball or fields the ground ball and tosses it back at the batter. Again, the batter hits a ground ball or line drive to a random player. And the drill just keeps on going. Players in the line are removed when they miss a ground ball or line drive, or make a bad toss back to the batter. The game continues until there is only one player left in the line.

Baseball Tip – 2 Ball Toss Game

This is a good pre-game drill. It gets the players concentrating on baseball and also helps with their hand eye coordination skills. Fun baseball drills like this can really help a team’s chemistry. Teams that have fun together will communicate better in the field, and it is a lot more fun knowing your teammates are pulling for you.

You can play this game with five to nine players. The players get into a circle, only a few feet a part from each other. Each player, except the “starter”, has one baseball and no gloves or bats. The “starter” has two baseballs, one in each hand. The “starter” starts the game by tossing one of his baseballs to another player. This player in turn must toss the baseball he originally has, before catching the baseball that was tossed at him.

Players are not allowed to switch the baseball from hand to hand. In other words, the hand they catch the baseball with is the hand they must toss the baseball with. And, players are not allowed to move their feet.

So the rules are 1) You must toss the baseball you have before catching a baseball tossed to you. 2) You must toss the baseball you have with the same hand as you caught the baseball with. 3) You must make good tosses to the other players. 4) You must not move your feet. Any violations of the rules and you are out of the game. Last man standing wins.

Baseball Tip – The Game of Flip

Flip is one of the fun baseball drills that my youngest son loves to play. His summer team has played the game for about three years. I believe they have modified the rules to their liking. So, here is their version of the game Flip.

Four to ten players can play this game. Again, all players stand in a circle a few feet apart. This time players wear their gloves and only one player starts with a baseball. In this game players do not catch the baseball, instead they volley or bounce the baseball in their glove.

Once a player volleys (bounces) the baseball in his glove, he will toss the baseball from his glove to another player. The baseball must be tossed between the other players knees and shoulders. That player can stop the baseball with his glove and start bouncing it until he is ready to toss, or he can play the baseball off of his body, and start bouncing the ball in his glove. Some people say you can only volley (bounce) the baseball twice before tossing.

On my son’s summer team they allow players to move towards the player they are tossing to, and that player can move back. But, if the tossing player drops the baseball in the receiving player’s spot, then that is counted as a miss and the receiving player is out. Any dropped toss, or toss not at the receiving player’s body between the knees and shoulders, and you are not. As always, last man standing wins.

Baseball Tip – The Game of 500

Here is a game I used to play a lot in my younger days. (We are talking a long time ago) And I know it is still popular because my kids have played 500 and I wasn’t the one who taught them.

It is a great drill for baseball practice if only about half your team shows up. If you have 12 or 14 players at practice, it could be too many to play this game. You be the judge.

This game is really batting and fielding practice, only as a game. You, the coach, pitch batting practice to one player, and the rest of the team covers the field. The fielders receive points for batted balls caught in the air and off the ground. They get 100 points for a caught ball before it hits the ground, 50 points for catching a one hopper, and 25 points for a ground ball.

We always played the game where you were deducted the same number of points if you dropped a fly ball, one hopper or ground ball. And when one person gets to 500 points, they get to come in and hit. You can always change the number of points to bat if things are moving slow.

There will be times when you will have to referee who gets to catch the baseball. You may have to call out the player’s name that gets the chance to catch the baseball.

Players love these free baseball drills. You may have to help sort out the rules in some of these games, but once the players get the hang of it, the games will move along smoothly.

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