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Pepper is a common pre-game exercise in which one player hits brisk grounders and line drives to a group of fielders who are standing about twenty feet away. The fielders throw balls to the batter, who uses a short, light swing to hit the ball on the ground towards the fielders.
The most notable drill used is the "Tee Drill", where batters hit a ball off a baseball tee and correct any issues they found during previous games or practices. [4] There are also various hitting devices used during warm-up in the "on deck circle" to try and increase the batter's bat velocity.
Hotbox is a baseball drill or mini-game that can be played with three or more players and two to four bases. [1] The variation with only two bases can also be called pickle, rundown, or running bases. [2] [3] In the drill, one fielder plays near each of the bases and the rest of the players are runners, who begin on any base. The fielders ...
In volleyball, pepper, usually used as a verb, is a very popular warm-up drill, generally involving two players. Pepper is the most common drill performed by played during the ten minute allotted warmup time before a match. This drill is used to practice and perfect ball control. It originated from a drill traditionally used in baseball.
The period, often before a game, when players warm up or practice their hitting technique. Sometimes refers to a period within a game when one team's hitters have so totally dominated a given pitcher that the game resembles a batting practice session. Referred to colloquially as well as abbreviated as BP.
In baseball, a pickoff is an act by a pitcher or catcher, throwing a live ball to a fielder so that the fielder can tag out a baserunner who is either leading off or about to begin stealing the next base. San Diego Padres pitcher Craig Stammen attempts to pickoff a baserunner
The length of time between warming up with a baseball doughnut and swinging at a pitch also seems to have an effect. Researchers in Japan found that post warm-up with a weighted bat doughnut, the first swing had the slowest bat velocity. [6] This may affect a player's decision of which pitch to swing at while at bat.
In baseball, warm-up swings using a standard weight bat are effective in increasing batting speed. [7] In a 2010 meta-analysis, the authors concluded that in about four-fifths of the studies there was improvement in performance with various physical activities with warm-ups as opposed to without warm-ups. [ 8 ]