Rapid Fire Bunting

Option 1

Divide the team into groups of four. Each group will need nine softballs and a bat. One person is the bunter and the other three are the tossers. Each tosser gets three balls. The bunter stands about seven feet from the tossers who are about six inches from one another parallel to the bunter in a horizontal line in front of the bunter. The tossers take turns throwing one ball to the bunter. The tossers want to throw straight to the bat like a pitch (not too hard) quickly. The second tosser tosses right as the first ball has been bunted to the ground, and so on with the third and back to the first until all the balls have been bunted. The players then rotate, one tosser becomes the bunter and the bunter becomes a tosser until all have bunted.

Option 2

Same setup as option one, but this time the tossers throw all three rapidly in a row. Tosser one tosses all three balls, then immediately after the second tosser goes, and so on until they rotate.

Option 3

Same setup as the other two. This time the players have to commu- nicate quickly. Tossers toss at random. They have to communicate to only get one ball out to the bunter at a time. Players can call “me” when tossing. Once all balls have been tossed, the players rotate.