Baseball Pitching Tips--How To Maintain Your Composure Is Everything!
Posted: Thursday, February 11, 2010
by Larry Cicchiello
Larwenty Online Enterprises Inc
To constantly improve, pitchers quite often work on their control and improving the quality and consistency of their pitches. Let me be very bold and tell you that one of the most important baseball pitching tips is that if you are not able to maintain your composure on the mound, you had better start working on that also!
You work on control, you work on the fastball, you work on breaking balls and you better work on your composure just as seriously. Having good composure is a very important part of a pitcher's arsenal of weapons. You can have great stuff but if you lose your composure, isn't the benefit of having great stuff severely diminished?
My son has a friend, who is a crafty left-hander who pitched in high school in 2007 and now pitches in college. In his senior year of high school, he really impressed a college scout . He gave up a tremendous home run over the left field fence. The scout who came to watch him, told him after the game that the bomb is a part of the game and was no big deal at all. What the scout was impressed with was that after the bomb, he calmly struck out the next batter on three pitches and maintained his composure! College scouts look for composure in a baseball player and realize the importance of it. The scout never mentioned his six innings, three hits, two earned runs, eight strikeouts and only two walks. He kept talking about composure! Hopefully, just as the college scout realized, you will realize the importance of maintaining your composure!
Please don't ever let a bad pitch get the better of you. You are not going to strike out every batter on three pitches. You are not going to pitch a shutout every time out. You are not going to pitch a no hitter every time out. Baseball pitching tips require clever use of the mind and not just the body. The only certainties in baseball pitching are that you are going to make some mistakes and sometimes things are just not going to go your way.
Allow yourself three seconds to be upset and then forget about it. If someone hit a bomb off you ten seconds ago, it's the same as if it was hit twenty years ago. It is in the history books. The same with an error by one of your teammates. The same with a bloop hit. If you truly want to be a good pitcher, your only thought process should be on making your next pitch a quality pitch. You can not rewrite the history books. One of the best baseball pitching tips you can ever learn is that the only pitch that matters is the next one you throw.
Please let it go and get back to work on that next batter!
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Top-level comments on this article: (1 total)My son practiced to pitch for over a year before they let him. He then struck out the side with 11 pitches and became the best starter. It was just like pitching at home with dad, he said.
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