Kids voices: [in unison] Go outside and play.

Abby: Communication is especially important when you're part of a team. These softball players are constantly communicating in order to coordinate the perfect play. Are you guys ready?

Players voices: [in unison] Yeah!

Abby: Take your positions.

Abby: Beth, tell me how you communicate in softball.

Beth: We do a lot of-- we have to yell because it's a long distance, and you have to communicate between every place so you always know where to go on the next play.

Abby: So your teammates are telling you exactly where to throw or hit the ball.

Beth: Uh-hm.

[cheers]

Abby: Rose, right as soon as you hit the ball, who's communicating?

Rose: The first base coach is already communicating to you.

Abby: And telling you what?

Rose: They'll tell you like if you should go to second or just stay at first.

Abby: Oh, because you want to keep going as fast as you can if you're ready to go, right? And that's when you make a really big hit.

Go home, go home, go home!

Slide, slide, slide!

Abby: So, you're the pitcher, and you're the catcher, and it's super important for you guys to communicate. Tell me why.

Well, as the catcher, I have to give number signs to the pitcher so she-- so she knows what pitch to throw at them.

And it can go outside, inside, up and down.

Abby: Now what would happen if she didn't tell you what ball she was going to throw?

Then she would just kind of throw a random pitch and then I wouldn't really know what's coming. It'd be kind of... kind of chaos a little bit.

[laughter]

[Music]

Lions on 3. One, two, three.

Players: [in unison] Lions!

Go, ladies!

[cheering]