#fastball

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

— Dennis Eckersley

#fastball #four #had #i #later

The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#final #fingers #point #release #tips

I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time. ↗

— Chili Davis

#any #could #curve #fastball #got

I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch. ↗

— Johan Santana

#commanding #count #executing #fastball #get

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues. ↗

— Ted Williams

#big leagues #fastball #hit #leagues #play

I'm not like a 90-mph fastball kind of guy, but I can hit 70 on radar gun. I hit 70 one time on a radar guy at one of those pitch-and-throw kind of things. I have a pretty good arm for somebody who's not a baseball player. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #fastball #good

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. ↗

— Joe Adcock

#aaron #fastball #hank #hank aaron #like

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball. ↗

— Tom Seaver

#best #fastball #good #pitch #rising

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#catcher #could #darn #fastball #handle

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me. ↗

— Eric Liu

#been #blazing #brute #brute force #bryan