Pitches Quotes

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If I don`t walk those guys, they don`t score five runs. If they get three runs, we end up winning the game. A couple of pitches were close and could have gone either way. Unfortunately, they didn`t go my way.

- Bradley Wayne Penny

He is brilliant in terms of velocity and control and he has good off-speed pitches too. Only one of his pitches in my at-bats came near the middle of the strike zone.

- Hideki Matsui

It was fine. I threw 48 pitches and that was about it. The numbers could have been better, but we`ll save all the good breaks for the season.

- Josh Beckett

I think I`ve always been prepared for this. I know what I have to do. You can`t make rocket science out of it. You just have to execute pitches. Don`t let exterior distractions in. It just takes away from what you`re trying to do.

- Josh Beckett

I`ve always believed you make your own luck. I wouldn`t say I had bad luck today. I just didn`t execute pitches when I needed to. Pitching against a guy (Zambrano) like that, you can`t give up six runs.

- Josh Beckett

I could have thrown 100 pitches today and it wouldn`t have mattered.

- Mariano Rivera

I`ve refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I`ve gotten more confidence, and I`ve gotten more determination. I`ve got a better idea what I`m doing out there.

- Randy Johnson

I think it probably seemed like I was anxious because I was swinging at bad pitches. I was thinking about it, but I`m going to keep swinging. Sometimes it looks bad and sometimes it doesn`t, but I`m not going to stop swinging.

- Vladimir Guerrero

I always swing at bad pitches, ... But lately I was swinging at even worse ones.

- Vladimir Guerrero

I couldn`t have thrown him three worse pitches. All three were just terrible. He must have thought I was Santa Claus after throwing those pitches. It was just sickening, especially the homer.

- Andy Pettitte

They made some good pitches and we had some hard balls right at guys. That`s baseball. That`s the way it goes.

- David Wallace

If you make decent pitches to him, you give him respect because you know he`ll swing at anything, ... You know he`s going to put the bat on the ball. And if he can reach it, he will. The pitch was probably not necessarily where I wanted it, but he just as well could have popped it up, too.

- Jamie Moyer

It seems like we`ve faced him 10 times, ... and he always pitches like this.

- Jamie Moyer

If you make decent pitches to him, you give him respect because you know he`ll swing at anything. You know he`s going to put the bat on the ball. And if he can reach it, he will. The pitch was probably not necessarily where I wanted it, but he just as well could have popped it up, too.

- Jamie Moyer

There were a few pitches, in my opinion, the umpire missed. That`s when the rally really started. Instead of getting a strikeout, there was a base hit. There were a few like that.

- Javy Lopez

Vladimir hits the ball as hard as anyone in the league. He swings and hits bad pitches. He sees so many bad pitches, he expects a bad pitch every time. Barry is different because he will not swing at a bad pitch. But Guerrero hits bad pitches out of the stadium.

- Javy Lopez

I had a tough time with my slider; it was off the plate a lot. I work on staying focused and keeping my concentration at the level it needs to be. Sometimes, it may take five pitches to get that one out.

- Jeff Suppan

You`re going to go out there and you may feel good, you may feel bad; that really doesn`t matter, ... You have to go out and make pitches. Sometimes it may take five pitches to get that one out, but you`ve got to keep grinding it. With our team, anything can happen.

- Jeff Suppan

(His fosh is one of the pitches Suppan throws in the bullpen when warming up for a start because of its importance. He holds the ball with splayed fingers, and it`s crucial that his arm action on the change duplicates his delivery on his fastball. Otherwise, the ruse is ineffective.) If you have a dominant fastball, it takes people off that fastball if you`re able to locate the changeup, ... If you can throw a fastball changeup, and it looks the same each time, that`s a pretty tough combination.

- Jeff Suppan

I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn`t mean I`m going to get a hit every game, but that`s one of the reasons I`ve come a long way as a hitter.

- Mark McGwire

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

That was my whole point, for them to swing the bat. I only had a certain amount of pitches and he was standing in there.

- Matt Morris

But I`ve got to make some better pitches.

- Matt Morris

The Cubs take a good approach and they`ve got something on me that I keep doing, whether it`s offspeed pitches or when I`m ahead in the count,

- Matt Morris

The Cubs take a good approach and they`ve got something on me that I keep doing -- whether it`s offspeed when I am ahead in the count, they seem to sit on some curveballs and put some good bats on them, ... I tip my hat to them, but I have to make some better pitches.

- Matt Morris

Right now he`s just taking it one pitch at a time and trying to get good pitches to hit. He`s been working his tail off. I`ve been real happy for him the last week or so.

- Patrick Anderson

It`s mostly concentration, being consistent every day with his early work and preparing himself for a game. When he watches the ball all the way through and gets good pitches to hit, he has a chance. You start getting frustrated and when you get frustrated you get in a slump, so to speak. You`re overdoing things. You`re trying to do too much. That`s what he got into.

- Patrick Anderson

He`s kind of sneaky. He throws across his body and he short-arms his pitches. You`ve got to feel him out. It took us a few times to get something going off of him.

- Rich Aurilia

I got some good pitches to hit, but I tried to do a little too much.

- Todd Helton

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they`re looking for and one to cross them up.

- Warren Spahn

It looked like those pitches were right there.

- Adam Dunn

My fastball location was terrible. As hot as their team is, you`ve got to make your pitches and I didn`t.

- Kris Benson

They found a hole every single time they put the bats on the ball. When I look back on it, it`s definitely disappointing. I`ve made worse pitches and I`ve felt worse in games. There`s nothing I can do now.

- Kris Benson

Those were some of the best pitches he threw all night. Matt just has to realize Todd`s pretty good. He`s done that to people for a long time.

- Mike Matheny

I just tried to make good pitches. Huff is a good hitter. It was a good battle.

- Tom Gordon

I just didn`t make the pitches. When I came out of the bullpen I felt good. I just wasn`t locating the ball where I wanted to. I got to concentrate more now.

- Jerome Williams

Hal and I really just sat back and started thinking about things, and the way that I need to go about seeing pitches and getting in the right frame of mind, ... I`ve just been working hard every day to get where I needed to be.

- Reggie Sanders

It`s not just us. He`s crushing everybody. We try to pitch him a certain way, but he`s a real good hitter. He`ll hit good pitches, he`ll hit bad pitches.

- Adrian Beltre

It looked like he was going to have a 1-2-3 inning. That was impressive. The first inning, he was leaving a lot of pitches up. He settled down after that.

- Derrek Lee

Hitting is always an adjustment, so I don`t really change my approach. Just try to hit good pitches.

- Derrek Lee

I don`t see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

- Hank Aaron

I was just battling out there. I thought I threw some good pitches and the balls just kept (finding) the holes.

- Javier Vazquez

Everybody out there did a great job. It seemed like they weren`t in trouble at all. They made their pitches. That was big for us.

- Javier Vazquez

There are two distinct advantages here. The pitches don`t break as much and because of the outfield, you can get a lot of hits even when you don`t put a good swing on the ball.

- Jeromy Burnitz

(Maine) had three pitches he was throwing that he looked like he had confidence to throw in any count, ... We really hit the ball a couple of times right at guys.

- John Olerud

He throws a lot of strikes. And the pitches we did get to hit, we didn`t do anything with them.

- Juan Pierre

It`s amazing ? it looks like he`s just playing catch with the mitt, even with the movement on his pitches. The other day, St. Louis has a good hitting lineup, and they were missing balls by a foot. You want the definition of pitching, it`s him. You wonder how he gets it done.

- Juan Pierre

I was working on locating my pitches and throwing my slider for a strike. It was nice to get out there and face some hitters.

- Kerry Wood

I don`t care how he pitches. He`s out there and his mom just passed away. If he pitches great or not, it`s not going to matter one bit to anybody in here.

- Lance Berkman

I`d rather see the guy out there now. He always did an unbelievable job as a closer, but you never exactly knew how he was going to get there. He`d get it done, but he did it differently. Now Izzy takes the approach that it`s fine to throw three pitches and get three outs. That helps him be more durable.

- Mark Mulder