Quotes About Pitcher

started out as a pitcher but changed course after working out for Braves pitching coach Jonny Cooney at County Stadium. "I was throwing for about 15 minutes," Uecker said. "I thought I was doing pretty good, but Cooney said, 'Alright, now let me see your good fastball.' I said, 'I've been throwing my good fastball.' And, he told me—this is no joke—'Well, then I recommend you get a job.

Sparky Lyle threw me a slider, and it wound up in the seats. We won, and it was a memorable moment.

Nikki gets a Tweet about the Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, who donated a million dollars to Tohoku's disaster relief fund.

The best compliment you can give a hitter is he's a tough out; that initiates fear in a pitcher.

I don't know why you would trade a stud pitcher.

I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base.

I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.

McLain this early in the game? It was a loaded

The series moved back down to Yankee Stadium for Game 6, where Schilling would get a second chance to make 55,000 Yankees fans shut up, but first there was the serious matter of the torn tendon in his right ankle.

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

The typical baseball play is a pitcher throwing a ball and the batter not swinging at it, while the other players watch. Even a home run, the sport's defining big blast, is only metaphorically exciting; a fly ball that leaves the yard changes the score but may offer no more compelling view than an outfielder staring up.

Jamie Moyer was in his third year as a major league pitcher and was, by his own admission, still wide-eyed, watching everything going on around him and soaking it in. He paid particular attention to older teammates on his Chicago Cubs squad, hoping to emulate habits that had allowed those veterans to extend their careers.

The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

Fran grounded out to the pitcher. Max popped a weak single to right field. Brendan struck out swinging. But the Tigers hopes for a winning season were down to the last out.

Love is as clear as water from a pitcher.

To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

The pitcher is in trouble, not me. He has to throw it over the plate and I have to put a good swing on it.

And then finally the magic flowed, but not the same way as when the Dragon's spell-lessons dragged it in a rush out of me. Instead it seemed to me the sound of the chanting became a stream made to carry magic along, and I was standing by the water's edge with a pitcher that never ran dry, pouring a thin silver line into the rushing current.

The Pirates lost their game, 8–2. Ryan Graves looked like any other pitcher, intense, a small player in a big world, Orestes, all of them. Now,

I'm always just grinding and figuring out what adjustment I need to make and how to tweak my swing to where I want it to be for that game and that pitcher.