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batter hell-bent on hitting a home run.
Baseball is a man maker.
I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway.
He's (Rafael Palmeiro) always the left-handed swing you want to copy.
He's got a real smooth swing and he's never off balance. He's always on top of
the ball. I just like watching him hit.
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
The biggest thing I want is for the hitter coming up behind me to get a good pitch to hit.
Who cares if you bunt for a base hit?
He (Darryl Strawberry) is not a dog; a dog is loyal and runs after balls.
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.
Playing shortstop is 75 to 80 percent anticipation, knowing the hitter and the pitch being thrown.
I would love to say that I have an eighth-inning guy, a seventh-inning guy, a left-handed guy, a long guy.
I don't like the designated hitter. A guy who plays should be able to catch and hit.
Never trust a baserunner with a limp. Comes a base hit and you'll think he just got back from Lourdes.
Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
It is dangerous to spring to obvious conclusions about baseball or, for that matter, ball players. Baseball is not an obvious game.
That kid can hit balls over buildings.
A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops.
If the shortstop makes an error, I am responsible. I let the batter hit the ball.
If you believe your catcher is intelligent and you know that he has considerable experience, it is a good thing to leave the game almost entirely in his hands.
I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.
To reach a ball he has never reached before, to extend himself to the very limits of his range, and then a step farther, this is the shortstop's dream.
I don't know anything about baseball.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
I love first base. I want to get better.
The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.
In baseball, you don't know nothin'.
He (Kris Medlin) has a communication with a force in pitching that most of us can't talk to. It's an awareness; it's a sixth sense. When he steps in and stares in to that catcher, that little man on his shoulder's going to take over and tell him what to do. And he's done it well.
A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.
Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the 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.
There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.
When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove.
I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.
Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove.
Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.
My name is not 'The Best Player in Baseball.' My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.
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.
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
I'm not an athlete, I'm a baseball player.
On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo.
What the Yankees need is a second base coach.
I'm a finesse pitcher without the finesse.
It is not something I earned or acquired or bought (the ability to pitch). It is a gift. It is something that was given to me - just like the color of my skin.
Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.
It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.
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.
The one thing that all umpires have is pride, and if you don't have pride, you lose that edge.
Before, shortstops and second basemen were mostly defensive guys that made all the plays and didn't really hit that well. But now it's beginning to change a little bit. Now, shortstops and second basemen are very productive in terms of run producing.
A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment.
Canzeroni is the only defensive catcher that can't catch.
That Reyes Farrow boy.
It's nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control.
I'm not sure what the hell charisma is, but I get the feeling it's Willie Mays.
Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility.
Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.
A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
A distinctly ordinary player of extraordinary dirtiness.
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.
He bats like a lightning rod.
Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.
He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.
I'm trying to put together quality at-bats and hit the ball hard somewhere.
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.
There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.
Betemit's positional flexibility is the same as yours: He can stand around and muse about the great philosophical debates of our day anywhere on the field. Catching and throwing the baseball is an entirely different question.
I always wanted to be a shortstop so I could play more often!
Different styles work for different guys ... If you can handle shortstop and hit, teams will find a way to pencil you into the lineup.
I want to be a guy who produces runs, who drives in runs, who can beat you with a single or can beat you with a home run, who's just a tough out.
A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer.
In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.
Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch.
Jerry Lumpe looks like the best hitter in the world until you put him in the lineup.
I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
A pitching coach is a manager's best friend. He's handling 12 out of the 25 players on the team.
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
You can't hit it out of the park if you're not at the plate
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.
To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.
In baseball, you don't know nothing.
A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.
I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed ... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.
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.
Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.
Young man, if that bat comes down, you're out of the game
You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.
Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.
Playing third base, you rarely have time to get into a great fielding position. It's all about reaction.
No cricketer is so dependent on the turf on which the game is played as the spinner; it can make, break, enfang or defang him.
You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.
He (Eric Davis) gets power from his bat speed ... it's like he has cork in his arms.
I love talking about baserunning.
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
True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
Umpire Harold Bird, having a wonderful time, signalling everything in the world, including stopping traffic coming on from behind.
If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today.
A baseball manager is a necessary evil.