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Cage time: D-BAT gives Wake Forest’s ballplayers a year-round season

Lessons, batting cages, camps, and memberships — the training academy where swings get built.

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Baseball is a summer game with a year-round appetite, and every serious young hitter in the area eventually ends up in the same place: a cage at D-BAT.

The academy

D-BAT Wake Forest is a baseball and softball training academy offering expert lessons, batting cage rentals, camps, and memberships — part of the national D-BAT Baseball Academies network, which describes its facilities as a cut above the rest. The local operation introduces its coaching staff openly and runs long hours: weekdays 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturdays to 6, Sundays from noon.

More than reps

Membership benefits reward the regulars — the families for whom cage time is a weekly ritual — while camps handle the school breaks and birthday parties turn the facility into the rare party venue where the entertainment is also practice. Booking for lessons, cages, and camps runs online.

Hours, programs, and registration are on the directory listing.

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