Third Base

The Hot Corner

Third base is the hot corner — the position closest to right-handed pull hitters, where balls arrive harder and faster than anywhere on the diamond and reactions decide everything. This complete position course builds the third baseman from the ground up: the reaction-ready stance, quick and soft hands on smashes, the long throw across the diamond, charging slow rollers and bare-handing bunts, guarding the line, serving as a cutoff, and the situational reads the corner demands. From Little League to Adrián Beltré — a Dodgers product who became a Hall of Famer and one of the greatest defensive third basemen ever — you will learn to guard the hot corner with fearless hands and a cannon arm.