Innings Quotes

We had better music at Sunnydale`s prom than at my real-life prom. And at my prom, I didn`t really have a date, which is sort of what happens to Xander. At my real prom, I kind of ducked out the hotel ballroom and watched a Dodger game until 3 a.m. because it went about 22 innings. And my friends were saying, `Oh no! Where`d Nick go?` I think I was trying to get people to worry about me. That whole teenage angst thing. (New York Times, May 9, 1999)

- Nicholas Brendon

We had several guys step up and show us that they`ll be able to give us some big innings. They did an outstanding job. We need our pitchers to keep us in the game. We hit some balls well over the weekend, but we`ve got a long to go offensively. We`ll work on that all through the off-week.

- James Moody

I thought every pitch I was going to come out of the game, ... I had another 7, 8 mph in the tank I couldn`t go to, and that was disappointing. Somehow I found a way to get through five innings.

- Jason Schmidt

Even though we got beat, I felt that we started playing better the last two or three innings which carried over into the next game.

- Jeff Brooks

He started out not very sharp and he had 37 pitches in the first inning, ... That`s almost three innings worth and we were debating whether or not to send him out in the seventh or not but he wanted to pitch and he ended the game strong.

- Mark Prior

He always tries to do what`s best for the team. No question about that. I hate to take him out of the game and have one of the kids bat fourth in a late-inning situation. You don`t want a young kid to come up three times in extra innings.

- Moises Alou

(--) You need to add a 40-home-run guy and a guy who hits .310, that`s two hitters, ... You need to re-sign Jeff Weaver, the innings he gives us are priceless....

- Eric Gagne

Maybe that`s good for me. I`ve got a lot of innings, I`ve been throwing a lot this year, and a couple days off, you know, it feels pretty good.

- Freddy Garcia

If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won`t have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms.

- Juan Marichal

I feel like Wandy`s thrown the ball really well the whole year, ... I know he`s had a few rough starts, but you can`t expect a rookie to come up and give the innings he`s given us.

- Lance Berkman

I thought it was a key situation of the game, especially 2-1, ... That, and two innings before, when they had guys on, could have blew it wide open with a base hit and I was able to make a quality pitch at the time needed.

- Roy Oswalt

We have just got our noses in front, although it was unfortunate losing Mike so close to the end. The morning session is crucial in the context of our first innings and maybe in the context of the game: if we bat well through to lunch we will be looking at a good score, if we lose a couple of wickets we will have to battle as long as we can.

- Marcus Trescothick

It`s fantastic for me and great to get this award on the day we win the Ashes, but respect to every player from both sides. I dropped six catches this summer so maybe it`s not a bad thing I got lucky a couple of times today. That is the best innings I will ever play.

- Kevin Pieterson

This gave us a chance to see how he rebounded from that situation, and he was great. He gave up one run the following five innings. He responded extremely well.

- Brian Price

(59th over: England 240-4 (Strauss 102, Flintoff 56) Andrew Strauss reaches his century! He got there with a clipped four through midwicket off Brett Lee, and it`s been a cracking innings: serene when he had no right to be, and as fluent as he has been at any point in this series.) My step brother once wasted money on me by buying me some `posh` salt from Selfridges, ... Essentially it was salt, just salt.

- Mark Foster

With the magnitude of the game, catching 18 innings, it didn`t seem like that, ... If it was a regular-season game, maybe it would have seemed like that. But the atmosphere here, and what we needed to accomplish, it wasn`t as big of a deal.

- Brian McCann

Early on, there is more of a chance of me being in there early in a game and maybe a little more frequently. But that doesn`t really change my approach. I think we`re all still counting on (the starters) to find a way to pitch into the later-middle innings, so to speak.

- Pete Walker

Jamaica actually fought well in this innings but they gave it away in the first innings when their wickets fell so cheaply.

- Albert Smith

Sometimes, that`s going to happen. It was ugly. But after you play for awhile, you see a lot of ugly innings.

- Mark Bellhorn

It was a little nerve-racking. I sat and watched the first six innings. But you have to do that when you have guys like Grady Sizemore and Jason Michaels ahead of you.

- Jordan Brown

It was a little nerve-racking. I sat and watched the first six innings, but you have to do that when you have guys like Grady Sizemore and Jason Michaels ahead of you.

- Jordan Brown

We should have enough to get through nine innings, hopefully. We`ve got enough bodies on the bench that we can piece it together.

- Pat Murphy

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

- Alexander Selkirk

It`s just a shame that I had to work so hard to get through the innings and get my pitch count up so I couldn`t stay in the game a little longer.

- Andy Card

Once I show that I can go five innings, I`d be comfortable to get back with the team and get back in the swing of things, be involved,

- Andy Card

Last year, I felt good going into the playoffs, but I definitely felt like I had thrown a lot of innings as well, ... I feel a lot fresher now than I did any time in the past.

- Angel Cordero, Jr.

Obviously, it was good for me to not have a high pitch count those two innings, but I really needed to throw, ... Garner knows at this point in the season I`m available to do whatever he needs. Because our setup guys have done such a great job this year, I haven`t had to throw the eighth inning at all, and that`s really spared me to this point.

- Angel Cordero, Jr.

It seemed like the first four innings I couldn`t throw a strike to get ahead of a guy. But I kept battling and kept attacking and didn`t change my approach throwing the ball at all and I think that`s what helped out.

- Angus Campbell

That was huge, for (O`Donnell) to come in after two innings and keep us going. He kept the confidence alive, threw strikes, and that`s all you`ve got to ask of him. Then it`s a matter of scoring runs and coming back, and we pulled it out with a huge hand from him.

- Anil Sinha

It was basically the exact same game. I think it was a little worse today, but we battled back, kept our heads up. I don`t know what happened there (in the early innings).

- Anil Sinha

Our pitching struggled in the first few innings as we walked the first three batters. Then, we started to hit.

- Anita Holley

To only give up one run in 18 innings to those guys is really saying something.

- Ann Molski

It`s been four days of pain. I knew I could pitch and get the team through five innings. I feel like I had good stuff. I was staying on top of the pitches because I couldn`t bend over.

- Anne Foster

When you have an at-bat like that, it wears the pitcher. It sets the tone. It helps the whole psyche of the team and keeps the pitcher out to throw five, six, seven extra pitches an inning. That adds up. (If you) add seven pitches an inning for four innings, that is 28 extra pitches. Through four innings (Walker) was at 73 pitches.

- Anne McInerney

(Chen allowed two hits in eight innings and Chris Ray pitched a perfect ninth Wednesday night in the Orioles` 7-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.) I did want to go out there for the ninth inning, ... I had good stuff and I felt like I could have done it, but I`m just glad I helped this team win. We really needed a win.

- Annette Gonzales Taylor

In his case, because of the lack of innings, I think it might help him. I don`t think it will hurt him. If anybody needs winter ball, it would be him. We want to make sure he`s healthy going into the season next year, too, so if that means rest after he goes through all this rehab, that could be the best way to go, too.

- Annette Pacarro

I`m very happy to have the win and the runs, but it was a tough game to pitch in the sense that there were a lot of long innings,

- Anthony Ammirata

And David Barnes played a very good innings. He has been a terrific signing for us and has been very consistent all year as well as being a positive influence to the team.

- Anthony Marshall

I saw it on the scoreboard. I didn`t have a lot of time to think about it because I was managing the last two innings. Tomorrow is the big day to make plans. He`s been practicing and running around. That`s good enough for me, of course.

- Antonio Tuddles

It`s probably tough to read the newspaper about five third-outs to end innings. But that`s OK. Players should respond to that because it`s the truth. If the truth hurts, then you have to do something about it so you don`t have to read about it.

- Anya Kamenetz

I kind of expected he was going to be a little bit behind. He only pitched one other inning in the tournament, against Canada. But the thing that really encouraged me the most was that he made the quality pitches when he needed to. He made quality pitches and got three quality innings.

- Ariel Lucius

My first thought process was just keep it in the yard. Eighteen innings of baseball. That`s unbelievable for two teams to go at it like that. It`s the best game I`ve ever been a part of. I just want to keep learning and learning.

- Art Frazier

That`s two teams going at it. Just seeing guys go about it for 18 solid innings, and not give up one at-bat, not one pitch, it`s pretty amazing.

- Art Frazier

I thought overall I pitched OK, ... The first couple of innings I had some butterflies, and it showed. After that there were positives. I got my first start under my belt, which is nice.

- Ashley Chandler

I don`t think Ben had all his stuff today. He did settle down after giving up two runs in the first. He fought his way through his three innings.

- Auden Schendler

I`m very glad that I got to pitch the first five innings and not the last four, ... I was so nervous just sitting on the bench. The anxiety would have gotten the best of me on the mound.

- Badee Izzat Aref

(Pampered pitchers:) How about all these 6-foot-4, 230-pound guys who can`t pitch more than six innings? ... How about the nonsense of `pitch counts?`

- Barbara Weisel