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How to Build a Batting Cage in Your Backyard

Learn everything you need to know about how to build a DIY batting cage in your own backyard! We’ve got you covered with a step by step tutorial below!
Building Time 4 days
Author Mads Martigan
Cost $500

Equipment

  • Shovel or Auger
  • Level
  • Wire Cutters
  • Ratchet Set
  • Hammer or Rubber Mallet
  • Gloves

Ingredients

  • Batting Cage Netting
  • 4 Wooden Stakes
  • 4-6 3-4" Galvanized Steel Posts 13-15' long
  • 230 feet 4mm Galvanized Steel Wire
  • 55 Galvanized Carabiner 5mm Snap Hooks
  • 12 5 mm Galvanized Wire Rope Grips
  • 6 5 mm Galvanized Straining Screw Hook and Eye
  • 6 Heavy Duty Eye Bolts

Instructions

  • Choose your Location. Check for adequate drainage and stake out your posts with the tent stakes.
    building a DIY backyard batting cage
  • Determine the size of the netting you need.
    netting going up when building a backyard batting cage
  • Measure and mark the corners of the batting cage. Mark midway points along the long sides for additional posts midway if longer than 30 feet.
    A design for a simple backyard batting cage
  • Dig 3 foot deep holes in the corners and midway points if applicable and set your posts in cement, leaving about 10-12' of height for your batting cage.
    setting the posts for a backyard DIY batting cage
  • Attach your cables using the eye and hooks, eye bolts, and steel grips. See video for reference,
    steel cable for a backyard batting cage
  • Connect your batting cage net to the cables and tighten.
    A finished DIY backyard batting cage