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It would be useless for any player to attempt to explain successful batting.
You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.
Pitching is a priority.
Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.
I'd like to see him go out and bat one day with a stump. I tell you that's what he's been doing all this while
All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.
Swing at the strikes.
I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.
Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.
When you go to home plate with a lot of confidence, you feel that you can hit any pitch.
Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try.
I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.
Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.
If I'm playing well I'll get through a bat in three weeks. I batter them.
When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.
The game of baseball is made up of many little things. If we do all the little things right, then we'll never have a big thing to worry about
In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
If you go out to bat against Australia, they come at you hard.
I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
His fielding leaves you wondering. Then he steps up to hit and all doubts start to fade.
In baseball, you don't know nothin'.
Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
You don't swing at any pitch. You swing at the ones you can hit.
I love talking about baserunning.
Bunts lead to more big innings than anything else.
Are you tall? Are you strong? How big are your hands? You must be honest with yourself or you will end up using the wrong bat.
We know you can bunt, Mick. You're not down here to bunt. You're here to get some hits and get your swing back.
I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I never stop watching.
I watch it as it sails past me and lands in the catcher's mitt, a perfect and glorious strike three.
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
Batter up! I want to play with some balls.
I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway.
There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
In baseball, you've got to keep working.
Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
Every at-bat, I try to hit the ball. I don't like to strike out. I put the ball in play a lot, so I'll take the hits as they come.
I don't know how I'm gonna pick up a bat again. I just need to be away for a bit and play with my dogs.
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
A batsman's skill and technique are judged on how he faces the Duke ball in England
Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.
I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.
If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove.
Balls and strikes are the basic tenet to everything in baseball. From the perspective of hitting, pitching, offense and defense, it's all about the strike zone and how the battle is waged there between the pitcher and hitter.
It took us a little while, but we swung the bats well tonight.
Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.
You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand.
Hey, hitting is hard-if you make good pitches that aren't elevated in the zone, you're going to have success.
If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.
It's always good to bat at the top, where you get more opportunities, but sometimes crucial 30s and 40s can be very helpful for the team. Ultimately it is a team sport. Personal records don't matter much if your team ends up on the losing side.
I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
The batsman does not always need to create big hits. He can hit a boundary, then pick up some singles and still gets nine runs. To avoid that, I need to plan in a way where he must look to hit wherever there is a fielder. That is what is called 'bowling to the field.'
I'm just taking advantage of good pitches. I am seeing the ball well and my confidence is high.
I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?
If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair.
The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.
You can't hit it out of the park if you're not at the plate
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Born on third base and think they hit a triple,
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
When I walk into bat, I should know that 'Yes, I've prepared to the best of my ability. I couldn't have done anything better.' That is when I feel that I am ready to go out and play.
In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.
Oh, honey, if he swung batter-batter for my team, I'd be all over that in a heartbeat.
A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding.
I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.
I want to make guys put the ball in play. If I give up ten hits, then I give up ten hits. But I want to work on making them earn it.
I'm working on a new pitch. It's called a strike.
I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.
The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.
He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.
When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown
The day I pitch, I feel confident I can stop the other team.
Don't just hit a home run. Knock it out of the park.
Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.
Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run.
The minute you start getting in trouble, you can't try to do new stuff. You can't try to make a nasty pitch or 'paint the black' because that's when you fall behind. You have to stick with what works for you and go after hitters like there's nobody on base.
Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.
Basically, hitters fall into a pattern, and once you know what they like, you can set them up for the putout with something else.
We're not going to have a perfect batting average and it's important that Americans understand that.
Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
A ball bat is a wondrous weapon.
A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
In baseball, you're always moving people around.
Whenever we play the Twins, Torii Hunter has a major impact on defense. He tells the left fielder and the right fielder to take the day off and he covers the whole outfield.
Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.
I'm starting to swing the bat now like I know I can. You can't really explain it. I'm just seeing the ball good and everything is going my way.
I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
I really hate it when I can't score runs from a ball.
Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready.
You decide you'll wait for your pitch. As the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. Then you realize that the ball that went by you for a strike was your pitch.
There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.
A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.
The biggest thing I want is for the hitter coming up behind me to get a good pitch to hit.
I love first base. I want to get better.
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.