How to Play Infield

Tips for fielding ground balls. Learn how to make a play on a grounder from a professional in this baseball video.

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Form triangle with feet and tip of the glove
Snap throwing hand on top of ball
Point body towards throwing target

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"Jimmy Goethals is a Triple A baseball catcher. Edwin Maysonet: 2007: Named Corpus Christi Defensive Player of the Month for June and July...Posted a .966 fielding percentage in 438 total chances...Hit .294 when playing at home. 2006: Ranked second and had career-high 21 steals, third in doubles and a career best 32 doubles, and fourth in runs (58) for Single A Salem. 2005: Split the season between Single A Lexington and Salem...For Lexington, hit .260 with 17 RBI in 45 games. 2004: Placed fifth in the South Atlantic League and first on Lexington's squad in triples with 10...Led Lexington in runs (79) and was named the Legend's defensive player of the month in June. 2003: Hit .275 over 45 games for Single A Tri-City. Was drafted by the Houston Astros in 2003 and is playing on Triple-A Round Rock Express currently. "

JIMMY GOETHALS: Obviously, we need to work on a little bit of infielding. So what we're going to do we're going to break it down as simple as possible, and I'm just going to draw a little diagram which I actually have some guys do that I actually work with my little kids. It's a basic triangle. You got to use your imagination a little bit on this line. We're going to call that one our skateboard. Basically what the triangle does is this is where our feet are going to be. We want our glove out here. If we're back here, it's not good. That's why you want to go out here to go get that short hop and pick. I'd like to call this my alligator hand so when you go pick, you alligator that ball into there. And when we're ready to throw, we don't want to just replace. So that's why I'd like to draw my skateboard out here. So I'm here and I jump out on to my skateboard. I'm in a good throwing position, my brains are pointed towards my target and I'm going to throw. So what I can do, I'm back here also on that ground ball, boom, on my skateboard and I throw. All right. So Edwin is going to be here. Pitcher gets on the mound; he's ready to go. He's right-left. The ball is hit to him, gets it out in front, alligator and then jumps on to his skateboard and he's ready to go. Perfect. Perfect.

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