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How to Train Your Hitters at Game Speed

As your team and players train indoors, are they training in realistic environments to best help them successfully prepare for game speeds? Here are tips to elevate your batting practice by replicating game speed and adding healthy competition.

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Indoor Throwing Routines for Colorado Baseball Players

Gearing up for the upcoming baseball or softball season in the winter and early spring is paramount to your player’s and team’s success and individual development. Here are ideas and tips to throw indoors safely, effectively while building up strength and caring for your player’s long-term health.

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Three Reasons to Train With Wood Bats

Considering swinging a wood bat as part of your training? Hitting with wood bats can be a good idea for a variety of reasons. Here are three of them, and one possible downside to swinging with wood versus metal.

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How to Play Catch the Right Way to Improve Your Game

Simply put, the act of playing catch is perhaps the most essential building block of a baseball or softball player. After all, every play on the diamond involves a player throwing a ball to another player. Here are tips on how to play catch the right way.

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Why Staying Inside The Ball Helps a Hitter

There are lots of different hitting philosophies and “gurus” on social media. Among those, you may have heard the term “staying inside the ball” before, but what exactly does it mean to stay inside the baseball and why is it important?

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Guide to Colorado Youth Baseball Tournaments

For most competitive youth baseball teams in the Denver area, tournaments are the preferred route in scheduling out a season. Here’s a guide to different tournaments and tips to navigate finances, weather, scheduling and travel for your team.

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Welcome to the New Home of HitStreak!

We are thrilled to announce that our new 18,000 SF facility is now open, complete with more space and more potential to serve the needs of our Denver-area baseball and softball players and teams. We’ve also unveiled our new online home at HitStreak.com.

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HitStreak To Upgrade Facilities in 2023

HitStreak is excited to announce that we will be moving to a new location January 15th! The new facility will be more than double our current size and the training space will feature our two ProBatter machines, 10 retractable cages, a pitching area, as well as a speed/strength/conditioning area.

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The Benefits of Practicing With Flat Gloves for Infielders

A flat glove is something our infielders can use that doesn’t require extensive explanation or background in how to use it, but can greatly improve our players’ fundamental skill sets and overall defensive ability including softer hands, quicker reaction time and getting the ball out of the glove faster.

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