How to run thru first base in softball with Jessica Mendoza

Learn how to play softball from the professionals. Softball Magazine brings you this video tutorial with softball slugger Jessica Mendoza. Jessica won a gold medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics and has been named Softball Player of the Year in 2006. What better an athlete than this to teach you the basics of the game?

Improve your performance, learn how to run thru first base in softball with Jessica Mendoza. There are three main tips to running through 1st base. First, make sure that you are running all of the way thru the bag. Second, hit the front part of the bag, not the middle. Third, check to your right for an overthrow, so you can head to second base. See the correct method to run through first base.