E.Z. is one of those pitchers that needs to relax. He needs to keep the ball down. Its different when were playing in Washington on a big field. He has to make the adjustment. After the first couple of innings, he made the adjustment. He gave us a chance to win. He pitched a great game.
More Quotes from Javier Valentin:
The only thing I was trying to do was put the ball in play. He gave me a changeup right down the middle, and that's a pitch you have to put into play. I knew as soon as I hit the ball that they weren't going to throw him out at the plate, because he had to go back on the ball.Javier Valentin
This game is funny. We have to continue what we've been doing and come back tomorrow and start over.
Javier Valentin
A change-up right down the middle, ... You've got to hit that pitch.
Javier Valentin
He's going to try to be careful with me and he's only going to give me one pitch to hit, ... In that situation, I can't miss that pitch.
Javier Valentin
I didn't know what part of my body he hit. But in the morning - my shoulder.
Javier Valentin
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Chance QuotesIf I couldn't read, I couldn't live.
Douglas Sirk
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
Thomas Wolfe
Now that I am much older, I have had a number of sax players tell me I was responsible for them playing sax. Some of them I have admired over the years.
Clarence Clemons