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DYJ HITTING ROUTINE A DYJ Hitting Routine is meant to apply pressure to a situational team offense. I prefer to use this as a "pre-work" type routine where we will execute this routine for 5-10 minutes or 3-5 rounds depending on situation(s) before we begin another routine of offense. The setup for this depends on which type of groups you want to use. I recommend using a defense especially Catcher and MIF for green light groups work. The first option is 2 large groups. 1 Hitting, and 1 Baserunning. The groups should be even and the hitter and the baserunner are "tied together". Every hitter has a job and every baserunner has a job. If the hitter or runner fails to do their job they have to have some sort of negative consequence. (pushups, run and touch the pole, lose a round during the next BP, or make it a group competition and they don't get a point for their group). The DYJ is a 1 pitch execute game scenario. If they do their job their is no negative consequence and they will get back in line for the next round. Feel free to adjust situations, counts, outs, or focus for your program style. HITTER RUNNER ROUND 1 DYJ (Green Light Sac Bunt) ROUND1

ADVANCE RUNNER

GETTO2ND BASE

REPS

FOCUS

START

FOCUS

SAC BUNT (MUST BUNT STRIKES UNLESS RUNNER STEALS)

GREEN LIGHT/READ BUNT, PASSED BALL, DOWN ANGLE, HIGH LEG KICK

1

1STBASE

STOLEN BASE COUNTS AS POSITIVE FOR BOTH HITTER ANDRUNNER

IF THROWN OUT ON GREEN LIGHT COUNTS AS A NEGATIVE FOR BOTH HITTER AND RUNNER

ROUND 2 DYJ (Hit and Run)

ROUND2

BARREL CONTROL

REACTTO SITUATION

REPS

FOCUS

START

FOCUS

MUST SWING AT EVERYTHING ABOVE DIRT. EXECUTE A GROUNDBALL

1

1STBASE

STRAIGHT STEAL WITH LOOK IN AND READ

ROUND 3 DYJ (Move Runner/Score Him)

ROUND3

PITCH SELECTION

READ BALL IN PLAY

REPS

FOCUS

START

FOCUS

2ND BASE

AT OR BEHIND INFIELD RULES/SCORE ON BALL DOWN IN OUTFIELD

1

MOVE/SCORE RUNNER FROM 2ND

ROUND 4 DYJ (INFIELD IN/BACK-SCORE RUNNER)

ROUND4

PITCH SELECTION

READ BALL IN PLAY

FOCUS

START

FOCUS

REPS

3RD BASE

SCORE THE RUNNER FROM 3RD DEPENDING ON SITUATION IF IN (BALL HIT TO OF) IF BACK (BALL HIT TO OF OR GB MIDDLE

1

READ BALL IN PLAY AND SCORE

IF IN (BALL MUST CLEAR IF) IF BACK (SCORE ON GB MIDDLE AWAY PAST PITCHER/HIT TO OF)

ROUND 5 DYJ (SQUEEZE)

ROUND5

TRUSTYOUR TEAMMATE

REPS

FOCUS

PRESSURE

START

FOCUS