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The ballgame is over ... in this inning.
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
Bruce Sutter and his new pitch, the split finger fastball, fascinate the manager of the Cuban national teams. 'We must find out about this new weapon,' he said. 'Are the American hitters plotting to murder him?
I'm trying to put together quality at-bats and hit the ball hard somewhere.
There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.
The biggest thing I want is for the hitter coming up behind me to get a good pitch to hit.
The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.
Umpires sometimes have a quick trigger.
I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway.
If there's one pitch you keep swinging at and keep missing, stop swinging at it.
Major League Baseball Rule 6.08(b) suggests that in this situation, the batter would be considered "hit by pitch," and would be eligible to advance to first base.
wreck but Trot Nixon's fair ball nestled in his glove.
The catcher is in the middle of everything. He sees it best.
For hitter or pitcher, rookie or veteran, baseball has long been defined by failure rather than success, the old a-.300-hitter-gets-out-7-times-in-10-at-bats truism. Dealing with and managing failure is an essential - some would say the essential - part of the job description.
Bottom line is, you have to pitch. You want timely hits.
Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.
Don't just hit a home run. Knock it out of the park.
The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.
You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
He hit the ball so hard, I couldn't even turn around in time to see it go over the fence.
He bats like a lightning rod.
There is only one way to pitch to Musial - under the plate.
You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?'
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.
In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
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 best place to catch a baseball hit by (Mark) McGwire is definitely not within the confines of the playing field, or sometimes even the ballpark. Other players dial '1' for long distance. McGwire has to ask for an international operator.
It's just a base hit, people. It means nothing unless we put a string of them together.
I love talking about baserunning.
As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.
There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.
Greaseball, greaseball, greaseball, that's all I throw him (Rod Carew), and he still hits them. He's the only player in baseball who consistently hits my grease. He sees the ball so well, I guess he can pick out the dry side.
Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.
Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.
Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to sell its thrills cheaply, but rather an understated affair that must be courted if its to be loved.
He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.
Bobby Brown reminds me of a fellow who's been hitting for 12 years and fielding one.
On any ball hit
to center field, let's just let it roll to see if it might go foul.
The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball.
Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.
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Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.
Baseball player: "What time is it?" "You mean now?"
A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.
I never think Im going to make a double play in the outfield. But I did it.
That home run ties it up, 1-0.
To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
What, and give him (the batter) a chance to think on my time.
The most overrated underrated player in baseball.
Swing at the strikes.
Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
What's the deal with Johnny Damon? He can't hit. He can't catch. He can't throw. He's sort of the five-tool guy ... without any of the tools!
Sometimes we get so afraid of hitting bad shots (making bad pitches), we don't let ourselves hit (pitch) good ones.
He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.
Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
Try to shorten the base paths in order to reach home plate faster and score. All you will have accomplished by that technique is to cheapen the value of a run.
Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
A baseball manager recognizes a nonphysical talent, hustle, as an essential gift of great players and great teams. It is the characteristic of running faster than necessary, moving sooner than necessary, trying harder than necessary. It is essential for great programming teams, too.
Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
Baseball is just my job.
(Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season.
I think nobody can get me out. I've got a pretty good idea of what I want to hit. If I get my pitch, I'm going to get a hack in. And if I don't get you this time, I'll get you next time. I'm not saying I'm better than anybody, but I am saying that nobody is better than me.
Batter up! I want to play with some balls.
The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.
The umpire ... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.
That boy may have been born on third base but he sure as shit ain't scored a triple.
Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.
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One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.
You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.
In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!
A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.
Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!
You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.
After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.
Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps.
If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.
Pitching is a priority.
Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.
But I got a guy on third, I was in a jam the other day in a game, all those situations, when you need a strikeout there, in big spots. But we are very aware of that fact, that these guys put the ball in play.
If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.
Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it after you catch it is a business.
A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
It could be, it might be ... It is, A home run!
Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch.
He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.
I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.
In baseball, you've got to keep working.
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
We need a hit, so here I go.Hit-- Joe Dimaggio
Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
God, I just love baseball.
The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
I've fallen in love with baseball.
When I start thinking in the batter's box, that's when I get into trouble.
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.