To build skills - Kids love learning and developing new skills. Baseball is a sport that challenges them to develop and improve skills like catching, throwing and base running. 4. To foster friendships - Baseball is a perfect avenue to interact with friends and meet new people. By working on a team, kids learn the value of teamwork and camaraderie. You should stay positive in coaching them to help your kids develop the ability to communicate their apprehensions, questions and doubts about their abilities. 3. Show your kids you care - As a parent and a coach, kids need to feel that you care. Take time to listen to them. You may watch a live game to discuss what skills they lack or you may try to know what's going on in their lives outside the court. Bunt - It is a valid batting of the ball, even though the player did not swing it. The ball is just deliberately hit by the bat and tapped within the field. 4. Caught Looking - This term is used when a batter gets the third strike without any attempt to swing at the pitch. 5. Force Play - When the current batter becomes a runner, the current runner loses his right to stand on the base. When the ball hits one of these poles, it will be called a fair ball and a home run is going to be announced. Ground rule double. In contrast with the first rule that the ball will be called a home run when it hits over the outfield fence, an automatic double is going to be called when the ball bounces over the fence. The runner tags up or waits until the ball is caught, and runs home before the outfielder can throw the ball to home. Sacrifice bunt The other key move is the sacrifice bunt. The object is to move a runner waiting in his present base (usually at first base, most favorably at third) into a scoring position (going to the next base or a home run). The following are some of the important ones. Strike zone The batter should know how to assess and cover the entire strike zone. This is a delicate subject because this varies from umpire to umpire. Basically, however, the strike zone is the space over the home plate between the batter s shoulders and the top of his knees (when he is at his natural positional stance).