To play softball you will need a bucket of balls, a bat, and a couple of gloves that fit your hand snugly, but not too tight. You will have to work with your glove to make it flexible and you might want to keep a softball in the glove while you aren’t using it so that it will keep its shape.
How to Play Softball - When you are on the field, infield, or outfield, you have to keep your eyes on the ball, the batter, the pitcher and runners. Cheer your pitcher on!
How to Play Softball - Softball is a team sport in which a ball, eleven to twelve inches in circumference, is thrown by a player (called a pitcher) towards an opposing team player called a batter who attempts to hit the ball with a round, smooth stick called a bat. The ball itself is also called a softball. Scoring is accomplished by the batter hitting the ball as far away as he/she can and then running and touching a series of four markers on the ground called bases before the opposing team’s fielders return the ball.
How to Play Softball - The basics of Softball are very simple. One player, the PITCHER, pitches the ball to a BATTER who hits it and runs around as many bases as possible before the ball is retrieved and returned under control by the defensive team. The aim of the game is to score more RUNS than the opposition, and a run is scored when a player on the batting team advances successfully around all three bases and back to the home base (called HOME PLATE) from whence he/she started.
How to Play Softball - Unless you hit the ball so far that you can run around all the bases before it’s returned (a HOME RUN), you will have to stop at one or more bases on your way around and wait for the next batter to hit the ball so you can advance further.
How to Play Softball - Keep your philosophy basically conservative. This is mostly dependent on the ability of the defensive team. Let’s take extra bases when we can, yet there is no reason we should not have faith that our own players will bat us in (if they are doing their job). Softball is a hitter’s game. If the team is hitting well, we should not have any problems running conservative bases. Aggressiveness on the base paths should be inversely related to how good the team is hitting. EX: you won’t see any of the best teams playing the game today stretching many doubles into triples. When we make base running mistakes we take the bat out of our hitter’s hands. Let’s let the other team make the mistakes.
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