Finally Outside

Today was a good day to practice baseball. The weather was warm and the sun was out, making it a very pleasant day for an outdoor practice. Unfortunately, we are still unable to use our practice field down River Road, so we did drills on the football field. We even got to do some long tossing today, which is great. Tossing in the gym day in and day out can get pretty repetitive. Plus, you are limited with space, so throwing long distances is out of the question. It felt good to let the wing air out and loosen up some of the rust.
Outfielders even got to see some actual fly balls off the bat, versus throwing fly balls to each other in the gym--not exactly a game like situation. After that, we got to work on relays from third, second, and to home. This is another important thing to accomplish because we are unable to do this indoors. We were a bit shaky at first but ended real well, which is definitely a positive.
When the outfielders were done, it was time for infield. We did our drills, then took some ground balls. After this, we got to take a whole infield as a team. When we completed a good round of infield, we worked on pop-ups in the infield and practicing on who had priority. This may sounds like a grade school thing, but you even see mishaps in the pros, so it's important to practice this every once in awhile. We ended practice with a good session of hitting in the old gym. Coach was a lenient today because we didn't have to do any conditioning. Trust me, none of the guys complained either.