You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.
Quotes about pitches (16 Quotes)
There is natural ability and there is skill. There is an art to pitching. It's a skill position. It's not easy to throw quality pitches. It's not easy to throw the ball where you want to when you have that kind of velocity and that kind of movement. It boils down to being able to harness that stuff and throw it on the corners down in the zone. It's not easy to do. On a given day, Kip can do it. On another day, he can't do it.
We're constantly behind in the count with him. We're allowing a guy with his kind of power and hitting ability to hit in a 2-1 count every time he goes to the plate. Shoot, I wish I could hit in his counts. We have to get him to offer at some quality pitches.
The biggest thing in this game is getting ahead of hitters and finding a way to do that. For him, it's been the ability to do that with all of his pitches so far. That's a positive thing.
A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.
I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
This is the type of game we've been waiting for from Tyler. He's has tons of ability, but sometimes he loses confidence. He was just making good pitches and didn't get down after a rough first inning.
You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.
If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.
It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.
I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.
I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.
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.
I do tend to look at hitters, the way they swing at previous pitches and use that to my advantage. I just want to go out there and start attacking hitters and not necessarily give them the ability to think their way through an at-bat, just be in attack mode the whole time.
Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.
Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.