Fast Pitch Softball Is A Game

Since the softball field is much smaller than a baseball field, you have a lot less reaction time than you think. The pitching mound is closer to the home plate in a softball field. Therefore, when a pitch is thrown to the home plate, you have to see the ball and make sure that you have enough time to swing your bat. Also, while the pitching mound very close to home plate, the pitcher also has to figure out a way to get the batter out. They could throw curveballs, screwballs, or rise balls. This gives the batter much less of an advantage at the home plate. With the pitcher throwing these kinds of balls, the batter still has very little reaction

A softball infield, being substantially smaller than a baseball infield, is 7,200 ft2 (Trifoso). This is a huge difficulty because the infielder has less time to react to the ball and get the batter out at first. An infielder in softball must get it to first base in 3.2 seconds, which is more than a second faster than a baseball infielder would (Trifoso). That is super strenuous to do because if you have one make one little mistake, the batter is safe at first.

Softball is a growing sport for girls within the United States. Whether you are an 8-year-old girl, to a senior in college softball, it’s a sport that many are attached too. A new form of hitting came into play during the 2005 Women’s College Series. Slap hitting is a new form of hitting that changed the way the game of fast-pitch softball is being played. Slapping changed the way coaches and players think about how they are going to field a slap hitter. This form of hitting is becoming a major role within fast-pitch softball. When I got the opportunity to learn how to slap hit I was excited to gain this ability. With practice, patience and determination, I began to learn the hitting style that I use today.

Baseball players have less than 0.40 seconds to defend themselves from a whirling 100 mph ball hit by a 200lbs beast. And take into consideration that if the fielder takes more than 4.5 seconds to field and throw the ball to first base, then it becomes impossible for them to throw the runner out. The motor, cognitive, and visual skills needed to succeed in baseball may explain why many believe baseball is harder than softball.

The players take the positions of pitcher, catcher, first baseman, second baseman, shortstop, third baseman, and outfielder. For the most part, there are three outfielders holding the positions of right defender, left defender, and focus defender. On the other hand, moderate pitch softball takes into account a fourth individual in the outfield. Like baseball, the group with the most keeps running toward the end of the seventh inning is named the victor. In any case, if the groups are tied toward the end of the seventh inning, the amusement can go into additional innings, until the tie is

Softball is a sport that is known throughout the United States and the world. Softball originated on Thanksgiving Day in Chicago in 1887. The game was actually said to have begun as an indoor game. Softball was started by a group of men who had gathered at a club to watch the Harvard vs. Yale football game. When the news came that Yale had defeated Harvard, 17-8, one Yale supporter, overcome with enthusiasm, picked up an old boxing glove and threw it at a nearby Harvard alumni, who promptly tried to hit it back with a stick. This gave George Hancock, a reporter for the Chicago Board of Trade, an idea. He suggested a game of indoor baseball. Naturally, Hancock's friends thought he was talking about playing a game outdoors, not indoors.

Since the age of four my father has trained me to be the best baseball player I can be. Every single day my dad would practice with me. He would make me do drills and plays until I got them right. Due to my father’s commitment of making me a great baseball player, we won three championships: two in Little

From early one, I was a standout in baseball. From ages 8-13, I made the league’s travel all-star team. Being the only black kid and the only one in public school, I often found myself sometimes out of my comfort zone when it came to hanging out with the team. Generally, the team consisted of the same players and coaches every year, so the faces rarely, if ever, changed. As we got older, things began to change. I eventually found myself on the pitching mound for my respective league teams starting at age 10. Now, not to toot my own horn, but I was hands down one of the better pitcher’s considering that I was younger than many of my fellow peers. By the time I was twelve, I could throw a ball almost 70 mph. At age 13, my team went a whopping 15-1 beating teams by an average margin of

Liz Johnson 5/1/15 Big History 5th-6th Softball, The Story of It All. Softball and baseball are the same thing, right? Wrong. Softball is the same as baseball, but it has a softer ball, right? Wrong again. So if it’s not the same as baseball and it doesn’t have a softer ball then what is it? Softball is its very own sport. Yes, it has similarities to baseball, but there are many differences. To fully understand softball you have to know its history, how it is played and how it works, what it is made of, and finally what it is all about. It was 1887 in Chicago, Illinois, the Yale vs. Harvard football game, this is where softball originated. A football game is where softball originated, not baseball. Softball has its own separate history of baseball. And that is the first discipline that I am going to cross; history. When it was announced that Yale won the game, a fan threw a boxing glove at a Harvard fan. As the glove was thrown, the Harvard fan grabbed a broom handle and swung at the glove. Right then George Hancock playfully shouted out “play ball!”. And then the very first softball game was played. Before I go into detail about the history and importance of softball I am going to explain how the game is played. There are four basic elements of softball. One: bases, Two: batting, Three: catching, and four: signs. There are four plates/ bases; first base, second base, third base, and home plate. When you are batting you try to hit the ball as far as you can when the pitcher

Today is May 23, 2016, and my plans for the summer of 2016 are going to be fantastic! Okay so let’s begin, so first of all my summer is going to be filled with softball. I’m going to have tournaments all throughout the summer, long dreary practices, and long batting practice sessions with Coach Maggard. I already know it’s gonna be hard to squeeze in some fun, and some social time but softball is a sport that needs commitment and i’m willing to give it. So I have practice on Mondays, and Thursdays in Lake Wales. Every practice, we do 30 minutes of conditioning, then we throw, and after throwing the pitcher’s pitch and then defence fields the coaches or teammates hits, but on thursdays instead of this we go to the indoor batting facility for

Softball was not a sport I grew up playing since the t-ball age like most people who are still in the game at my age group. It wasn't till after my grandfather passed away in 2009 that my mother suggested to me that I tried playing the sport that my grandfather had a love for. After him being on of  my biggest role model in my life and largest influences on both mine and my brothers lives I didn't hesitate to try. After only one year of playing house league softball in Belleville my coach asked me to join a select softball team. Knowing that this team would not have a pitcher in this upcoming season I practiced with my dad at the pitching mound In our backyard. I quickly picked up on to the skills

In my first year, my hitting was terrible and I had only one hit in twenty games. During the off-season, however, I took a lot of time to practice on hitting on the baseball field, at the batting cage, and with a batting tee with my head coach. My head coach wanted me to

Baseball and Softball are two sports that seems the same, but they are not, this sports have so many similarities and differences, this are both competitive sports, this sports provide entertainment and exercise. Baseball is a sport in which two teams meet for a period of nine innings score points by hitting the ball, this sport requires strategy, baseball requires at least 9 players on the field when is time defend. There are 9 position on baseball, 1. pitcher 2. catcher 3.

Life is just a glorified game. I like to think of it as a softball game. When a batter steps up to the plate they don’t know what is going to be thrown at them (literally). They have to decide what pitch they are looking for according to the count even before they step into the batter’s box. Sometimes though, a pitch is thrown at the batter that they are not expecting.

When I was thirteen, I played the most challenging game of softball that I'd ever experienced in my nine years of playing the game. Softball had always been my favorite sport to play, and, in my mind, I had perfected the craft of being a first baseman. Naturally, I was excited to learn that after a long, successful season, I had been picked to be the all-star team's first baseman. I wasn't surprised because I was good at what I did, and I knew it. Well, in this particular game, I learned the hard way what it was truly like to be a part of a team.