ArticleSports (Basel, Switzerland)2025
Pitch Selection Ability and Spatial Executive Function Independently Predict Baseball Batting Performance.
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- Exploring the association between visual skills and sport-specific performance in team athletes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Pooled it
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Pitch selection-the ability to discriminate balls from strikes-is fundamental to baseball batting success. This study examined whether this ability relates to executive function and batting performance in collegiate players. Furthermore, this ability may be supported by brain functions such as executive functions, and the importance of Pitch Selection has long been considered. However, this ability has not yet been quantified, and there are no training methods for pitch selection. 14 male collegiate baseball players (age: 20.6 ± 1.0 years, first division university league) completed a virtual reality pitch selection task and spatial Stroop task. Methods included virtual reality pitch selection assessment, spatial Stroop task, and official batting statistics from league play. The results showed a significant positive relationship between the pitch selection task and hitting performance, such as the on-base percentage (r = 0.57,
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