- Aug 13, 2024
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we play for a org that has some very good upper age group teams this is their feeder program, we have some traveling teams that play in the league as well as some local area rec teams. dd plays for the actual feeder team that could lead to travel ball at a high level depending on skills. their elite team had 8 girls go to college last year 4 of them D1, or so im toldno one's suggesting pop-ups. but hard ground balls are outs more often than hard fly balls at pretty much every level in every bat-ball sport.
The points about the arc of the pitch are valid, but she's going to see a lot of that type of pitch. That she's instinctually adjusting to it is GREAT. If that was a 35' pitch she hit it what, 70? 80? That's over the infielders head probably.
You can work on the swing, and not dropping hands and good load and all that without worry too much about the pitch. After all, you can control the swing, you can't control what you're getting from the pitcher. You didn't mention what type of league, but in town rec/lower competition leagues you can see pitches like that for 4 more years. Might as well crush them.
the shed is about 26yards from where she is standing iirc. the back yard us uphill so it throws perspective off a bit. she routinely hits it into the flower bed by the back fence