Wednesday, February 7, 1979
When there's snow outside, baseball moves indoors
By TONY FITTS
Snorts Writer
There may be a foot of snow on the ground, but that doesn't stop the Kansas baseball team from taking batting practice or running a baseline.
But the team doesn't use an orange ball, or run in showcases, because there is room for them to do anything.
In the field house, the team can only work on hitting, pitching and running, but those skills have been the key to successful baseball teams in the past. Last year, the team had to practice indoors until it went to Texas in March.
KU won seven of 12 games in the South.
and went on to finish the season with its best win-loss record ever.
Coach Floyd Temple would refer to practice outside, but he makes good use of his position.
HE HAS set up three stations on the third floor of the field house: a batting practice cage, a bunting cage and an area in which players can work on their baserunning.
The batting cage contains a linoleum-covered indoor pitching mound, a home plate 60 feet, 6 inches away and empty space.
Nylon netting suspended from the ceiling and support columns surround this space, providing a strong and stable base.
75 feet long. The net keeps battles balls with reach of the players and away from them.
The team's pitchers have been pitching batting practices in this cage about the equivalent of three innings per day per man. By the time the season starts, the pitchers will have been throwing the equivalent of six or seven innings each time they pitch.
WHEN THEY start throwing more, the pitchers will take days off as they would have been.
After they have their turn on the mount, the pitchers run on the second floor of the
"We pitchers don't have it so bad," sato Kevin Kerschen, a senior left-hander from Kingman. "Basically, we throw, then we can we go home. But the hitters."
field house, alternating each day between distance and sprints.
The hitters, or the other players on the team, split their practice time between the batting cage, the bunting cage and the "basenames."
THE BATTERS rotate through the cage until each pitcher has thrown. Since each hitter gets about seven swings a turn, he can reach all lats in the cage by the time practice is over.
on the days when the pitchers are off, the batters take battle practice from a pitching machine.
When he isn't hitting, each batter buns in another cage against a pitching machine, or practices his starts off first base in another corner of the field house.
One of the more important parts of the workout is conditioning. All players do plenty of running, especially the pitchers, and most of them are involved in a weight-training program.
Assistant coach Stan Smith said indoor workouts could get barking after a few weeks.
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According to Hall, the timing and movement necessary for a good baseball team comes back to the players soon after they get on the field.
"Most of these guys have been playing long enough that things like that come back pretty easily," he said. "And most of our equipment has been used, so they are used to weather like this."
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