Last Saturday Practice

This past Saturday was the team's last Saturday morning practice of the season. It is the last time hitters will see live pitching and the last time pitchers will pitch to hitters until our official game. I have to sat that all things went well too. We started off practice with our usual warm up then tossed. Once we got our arms loose, we headed to the old gym where we had both portable mounds set up inside the cages. Usually what happens is that when the infields hit, the outfielders will do drills and vice versa. This eliminates the old gym getting all crowded because it's tough to have all the hitters standing around swinging bats. This also eliminates the possibility of someone getting hit while someone swings. I've seen it happen and it's is not something you want to see.
Since we have a large amount of pitchers, they were broken up into three groups. Each group had four pitchers and each pitcher pitched four innings. An inning consisted of 15 pitches. So a pitcher could face 15 batters in an inning if they all swung at the first pitch, or they could face like 2 or 3. It's all up to how the batter did. Once each pitcher got their four inning in, the next group of pitchers would come in. We did this until every pitcher pitched. As you could imagine, this takes a lot of time, hence the reason Saturday practices can go up to four hours. but it gets the batters alot of at-bats and alot of practice. So it all works out.