Drills
Baseball bunting drills
Baseball bunting drills with video, setup, coaching points and how to run each one by age.
9 drills
- Beginner bunting cone line — Young players stand at their own cones and rehearse the bunting pivot, grip and bat angle together on the coach's calls, then take turns bunting soft tosses. Everyone learns the safe way to hold the bat before any ball is thrown.
- Bunt scrimmage — Two teams play live innings in which every batter has to bunt, with a set base-runner situation each half inning. Hitters get pressure bunts, and the defense gets fast, real reps of calling and covering bunts.
- Bunting tee drill — Hitters work on the push bunt and the drag bunt off a batting tee, so they can learn the footwork and bat angle without having to time a pitch. A good first step before bunting for a hit off front toss.
- Bunting warm-up progression — Three short bunting warm-ups with a partner's toss: bunting from a preset, choked-up position, squaring around from a normal stance, and bunting from one knee. Together they build the hand position, timing and bat height a good bunt needs.
- Call-the-bunt machine drill — A coach calls a bunt and a side before each pitch, a pitching machine throws a strike, and the hitter bunts it between cones on that line. It builds bat control on every kind of bunt against a steady pitch.
- Double diamond bunting drill — Two small infields are set up back to back on a gym floor, each with bunters at home and fielders who charge the bunt and throw to first. Hitters get live bunts and the infield gets bunt-coverage reps at the same time, indoors.
- Glove catch bunting drill — The hitter takes a bunting stance with no bat, wears a glove on the top hand, and catches each toss right where the barrel would be. It teaches bunters to let the ball come to them instead of jabbing at it.
- One-hand bunting drill — Hitters bunt soft tosses holding the bat with only the top hand, first kneeling, then standing, then with both hands. It teaches the top hand to steer the barrel and catch the ball out in front.
- Rapid-fire bunting line drill — A line of hitters takes one bunt each off a feeder's toss, aims it at cones along the lines, and goes straight to the back of the line as the next hitter steps in. It packs a lot of bunts into a few minutes and makes hitters set up quickly.