The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
I remember one time I'm batting against the Dodgers in Milwaukee. They lead, 2 - 1, it's the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two out and the pitcher has a full count on me. I look over to the Dodger dugout and they're all in street clothes.
I don't feel any pressure when I'm up there at the plate. I feel it when I'm in the on-deck circle, but when I'm in the box, it's just me and the pitcher, and I get zoned in.
Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It's a matter of survival.
There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.
I am an emotional pitcher, but I can control it. When I was in high school, I was a little immature and I let my emotions get the best of me.
I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.
Fix your eye on the ball from the moment the pitcher holds it in his glove. Follow it as he throws to the plate and stay with it until the play is completed. Action takes place only where the ball goes.
I have an Alka-Seltzer bat. You know-plop, plop, fizz, fizz, when the pitcher sees me walking up there he says, 'Oh, what a relief it is'.
I believe it is a tradition in baseball that when a pitcher has a no-hitter going, no one reminds him of it.
I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.
In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can.
Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?
Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies.
Coaching third with a pitcher on base is like being a member of a bomb disposal squad. The thing could blow up in your face at any moment.
When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.
I may not be the bestest pitcher in the world, but I sure out-cutes 'em.
Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.
Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.