Pitchers Game

All four pitchers at mound (or wherever you have as long as its more than one) -1 on rubber, 3 behind a screen. There is a live batter at the plate, and a pitch count and situation is announced. The batter stays to outcome- walk, hit, K...

For example: 1-1 count, runner on 3, etc. You can come up with any scenario that is important to your team or upcoming games.

The pitchers throw a single pitch in succession, and the batter competes to win the AB. So, if pitcher 1 throws a ball, pitcher 2 inherits a 2-1 count, and is battling back, without any control over the last (or next) pitch. They need to be in the moment, correct or enhance the situation in one pitch, and of course, have no attachment to the last pitch thrown.

We will put our pitchers in a 3-0 count, challenging them to pitch to contact, and we also challenge our hitters with a 0-2 count, and have them working on extending the AB, fouling off pitches, etc. This one is particularly hard if your pitchers are vastly differing in speeds and other attributes.

One of the favorites is spots, where we start at one spot, and that spot has to be completed (hit) before we move to the next. (the challenge here is keeping the pattern a secret from your hitters!)

We generally use this as a competitive outlet a handful of times a season. Sometimes it's pitcher vs pitcher, where we score based on what they each throw effectively, most of the time it is pitchers vs hitters. We always have an award for pitcher games, for whoever might win, and it's always a big deal for the week or so to have been the pitcher games champ(s).