When I was in Little League, we had a mandate from our coach.
“Take until you get a strike!”
The consequences were swift and medieval. Running for an entire practice was the simple way of getting it through the heads of nine, ten, eleven, and twelve-year-old kids that swinging at the first pitch was bad. So, for the four years I was in Little League, I never once swung at the first pitch, no matter where that pitch was located. It being Little League, the chances of it being a strike anyway were quite low, so the coach had something of a point.