keeping with the theory that young t‒ball players should practice hitting anything to promote hand‒eye coordination in a creative engaging way, on guard is like it sounds.
both the coach and player are holding a plastic bat. it must be plastic! the coach will move the bat around and yell, “go.” on the go command, the player has to quickly swing and hit the plastic bat with his bat as if in a sword fight and then bring his bat back. the coach should put his bat high as well as low and move it in an unpredictable pattern.
in this early season drill we are having the players use their hand‒eye 