Process Essay: The Sport Of Softball

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.

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

“Be remembered!” echoes through my mind every time I get up to bat. From tee ball to now, softball has made a massive impact on my life. Ever since I was five years old, I have been playing the game that I love the most.

The pitch moves her arm in a circular rotation and then release when it gets to her thigh, to add speed and spin she flicks her wrist. There are nine players on the field at one time, and stealing a base and bunting always have been allowed in fastpitch. Softball rules are somewhat different from baseball. Two major differences are that the ball must be pitched underhand from 46 ft. For women it's 60.5 ft.

Playing softball, you get fit. Being fit, makes people like their bodies, which makes people happier in general. When throwing the ball, you have to throw it harder than you would a baseball, which means you’re using more of your muscles than you would when throwing a baseball. As a result, your arms and body get toned, and running to catch the ball gets your legs worked out as well. When hitting the ball, you have

The object of softball is to score runs by hitting the ball and touching all the bases without being tagged or thrown out. Softball games last for seven innings. The pitcher will pitch to a batter until one of four things happens: The batter gets three strikes against him/her. A strike occurs when the batter swings at a pitch but misses it or hits it foul with less than two strikes against him/her, or when the pitch passes through the strike zone but the batter does not swing at it. The pitcher throws four "balls," which are pitches that fail to pass through the strike zone and which are not swung at by the batter. In this case the batter "walks," meaning he or she is awarded first base. The pitcher hits the batter with a pitch. In this case,

Softball shows friendship by how the team comes together, we laugh, smile, and joke around all the time. Softball without friendship is almost like you are going into a war zone. Sometimes a team full of friendships, is a team that’s not ready for big the big game, or a team that will be ready ever second for anything that could happen. A team like this will help each other improve on the simple things, like the perfect swing, or the perfect play. Friendship can win championships, because everyone knows what your strong point is, and talk to you when you aren’t trying that hard. And when you know how to talk with everyone they will soon find out how important this is for everyone. And want to help win the championship for the ones that want it most. At the end of each day its more than a friendship, it’s more like a family. Everyone comes together at the end of the season, it sad to see the good players go. And even after the season is over everyone will still talk about next year’s season. It’s the best family that anyone could ask for.

Fastpitch softball is a game of mental precision. It has its ups and downs. One game, you may feel as if you are unstoppable. While the following game may send you crying the entire car ride home. Even the rush of hitting a home run or the excitement of pitching a no-hitter, are no match for the mental games that always seem to follow a disappointing play. There are moments in each athlete’s softball career in which this disappointment becomes too much. It swallows them completely and consequently leaves them questioning why they ever started playing the game. It may even cause them to consider quitting.

In the game of softball the baselines are only sixty feet long. Therefore, you must run super fast in order to be safe at first base. However, baseball baselines are ninety feet long, so the infielders have more time to get the runner out, and the runners have a longer distance to run. Softball pitchers have an advantage because the pitching mound is so close. An elite softball pitcher can throw speeds topping seventy miles per hour. This means a softball pitch can reach the plate in only thirty-five hundredths of a second! That is actually faster than it takes a 100 miles per hour major league fastball to reach home plate. The baseball takes thirty-eight hundredths of a second. After locating the pitch, a softball batter only has about twenty-five milliseconds to decide to swing or not. That is about fifty-five percent less time than a major league baseball player has. The game of softball can be very challenging for a batter. However, it can be even more challenging for an infielder. When balls come off of the bat at about one hundred miles per hour, a softball

Softball has always been my favorite sport. It’s the fast pace of my heart as I’m rounding the bases, fast as lightning, making contact with the corner of the grungy white bases with a heavy coat of red dirt layering the edges, prepared to dive into home base, the sound of the bat making solid compact with the bright, attention grabbing yellow ball, the smell of the dew delicately resting on the fields of green grass, giving everyone a relaxed feeling of being in nature.

Foremost, being a pitcher made me realize how important it is to have a short-term memory. When I was on the mound, I knew that the result of the previous batter had no bearing on what the next batter would do. For example, when I gave up a big hit, before the next batter came to the plate, I had to forget about what just happened. In softball, it is important to not dwell on the negatives, but learn from them. Because of pitching, I know yesterday’s failures can turn into tomorrow’s successes. I plan to have the same attitude in the legal field when obstacles come my way.

After walking onto the field at seven years old, I found my passion, my strength, and my world. Softball has been in my life for the past ten years, and I intend to play in college if I’m given the opportunity, nevertheless, I am going to fight to play. Playing softball has changed my life; I do not know where I would be without it. It has given me the best experiences in life, and I have made long term friends while playing. I hit my first homerun at 12 years old, and have been a power hitter ever since.

Some people think that softball is just a game. A game where the blood, sweat, and tears do not have meaning. On the other hand, the blood, sweat, and tears have more meaning than some people think. It is part of softball. A place where the people always have my back. The place where I met my two best friends. I have learned discipline, life lessons, and leadership skills from softball. It is a place I can shut out real life problems. Softball is more than just a game; it is my life.

Do you ever wonder the reasons why your team is always losing a particular game? Even though losing a game is a scenario that is frustrating, in the end, you might just say that there is always the next time. Then that next time that you are talking about comes, are you going to make the same mistakes that you have done in your previous games? If that is the case, then you might probably need some softball tips. Now, observe the equipment that your team has been using while playing.

My coach always said that softball was 90% mental and 10% physical. This was what I lived by for the six years that I played for his travel team, and it made me learn a lot of valuable lessons along the way. Pushing yourself to be the best that you can be is just as mentally tough as it is physically and that is where you have to use the motto and become disciplined mentally because it is more important that the physical part of the game. I chose to observe a softball game, but not just one game with two teams playing but a tournament played by many teams from different places. AAU softball is a hobby that requires great dedication that I have been through first hand and I witnesses that this weekend when I attended a tournament, and as