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Bunts lead to more big innings than anything else.
I love the game of baseball.
You can win it in the late innings if you never quit.
Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.
It's a base hit on the error by Roberts.
Nothing makes a pitcher feel more secure than the sight of his teammates circling the bases during a ball game.
Baseball is a team game.
Pitching is a priority.
In order for you to win a game, a lot of things have to go right. Your team has to win. Your team has to perform. When you talk about striking out people or ERA, that's personal stuff and where you show people what kind of pitcher you are.
Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.
Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.
I've fallen in love with baseball.
In baseball, you don't know nothin'.
Baseball skills schizophrenically encompass a pitcher's, a batter's and a fielder's.
I'm not a fan of baseball really.
Baseball's absolute unpredictability makes amateurs of us all
As I remember it, the bases were loaded.
Baseball is a game of the soul.
You never go into a season thinking you're going to strike out 200 guys or that you would have the most double-digit strikeout games in the big leagues, or anything like that. You just try to win, and the outing becomes what the outing becomes.
Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.
When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs.
Baseball is great because anything can happen through the ninth inning.
There's one word that describes baseball - You never know.
I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.
At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.
I have to do a better job of minimizing the damage in that inning and getting us back in there with the lead still.
You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
During the fifth inning, something came to the edge of the woods and looked at her. Flies and noseeums made a cloud around its rudiment of a face. In the specious brilliance of its eyes was a complete history of nothing. It stood there for a long time.
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
I'm a baseball freak.
That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres - two doubles and a triple.
One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.
It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.
A tall, thin old man waving a scorecard from the corner of his dugout. That's baseball.
As a member of Congress, I'm often reminded that in baseball, as in diplomacy, you have to know when to hit, when to run, and when to show grace.
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.
Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.
Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
I'm not a big baseball fan, to be honest.
I'm in the major league now.
You never know when you're going to throw a no-hitter or if you're ever going to get the chance to do it. It's one of those deals where the ninth inning comes around; it's either going to be your night or just a complete game.
A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of characters, full of improbable events, anecdotes, folklore and numbers.
baseball is a game played by the dexterous, but only understood by the Poindexterous."9
Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech - a slightly elevated and concentrated form.
The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
Warming up for the Brewers is that lefthander they got from the Mets, Bill Pulitzer.
You see him coming in with an 0-2 record and a 5 ERA and you wonder, 'How? How's that possible?
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
Baseball is just my job.
Baseball is a man maker.
You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.
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
Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day.
The way we're going ... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.
One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.
Now the advantage is all with the hitters.
May the sun never set on American baseball.
Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
Baseball is our national game.
To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.
What pitching is in a short series in baseball, goaltending is in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title.
It's a game of making great pitches at the right time, being opportunistic by getting a run at the right time and playing good defense.
During the 1920s New York Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert once described his perfect afternoon at Yankee Stadium. 'It's when the Yankees score eight runs in the first inning,' Ruppert said, 'and then slowly pull away.'
Born on third base and think they hit a triple,
I managed a team that was so bad we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally.
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
You know you're pitching well when the batters look as bad as you do at the plate.
I don't want to pitch forever.
Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season
these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?
You can't hit it out of the park if you're not at the plate
Traditionally, baseball punishes preening. In a society increasingly tolerant of exhibitionism, it is splendid when a hitter is knocked down because in his last at bat he lingered at the plate to admire his home run.
Baseball cannot avoid conflicts. Games are played on Good Friday, the most solemn day on the Christian calendar. On Oct. 2, 1978, they played on Rosh Hashana, and Bucky Dent hit one into the screen at Fenway Park. Supply your own moral.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.
The National League is baseball to me.
In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!
The great appeal of baseball, among the great appeals, it's a game without time. It is a pastoral game that is separated from time.
For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.
Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.
Here's the pitch. Mantle swings. There's a tremendous drive going into deep left field! It's going, going! It's over the bleachers ... over the sign atop the bleachers ... into the yards of houses across the street! It's got to be one of the longest runs I've ever seen! How about that!
When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.
If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.
Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
You decide you'll wait for your pitch. As the ball starts toward the plate, you think about your stance. And then you think about your swing. Then you realize that the ball that went by you for a strike was your pitch.
You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.
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 a finesse pitcher without the finesse.
Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.
Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.
(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action
You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?'