My daughter is struggling with strike outs this season. I went back and looked at her stats over the last few years and she rarely strikes out. It's at most maybe 2 a season. Her most recent travel season she did not strike out at all.
She's on the Varsity team this year (up from JV last season) and so far she has struck out 3 times already - all looking. And when I checked older seasons, the majority of her strike outs are looking.
We've told her time and time again, if it's close she needs to get her bat on it and foul it off if she can. And she knows all of this but once she's up to bat, she kind of forgets I guess. Last night, was 2 balls, 2 swinging strikes and then the last a called strike.
Is there anything we can do to help her so she gets more confident trying to foul off pitches on 2 strikes? It's one of my husband's pet peeves when she does it and her coach hates it too. Two other girls last night struck out looking too (both of them were seniors so I felt a little better).
thx
She's on the Varsity team this year (up from JV last season) and so far she has struck out 3 times already - all looking. And when I checked older seasons, the majority of her strike outs are looking.
We've told her time and time again, if it's close she needs to get her bat on it and foul it off if she can. And she knows all of this but once she's up to bat, she kind of forgets I guess. Last night, was 2 balls, 2 swinging strikes and then the last a called strike.
Is there anything we can do to help her so she gets more confident trying to foul off pitches on 2 strikes? It's one of my husband's pet peeves when she does it and her coach hates it too. Two other girls last night struck out looking too (both of them were seniors so I felt a little better).
thx