#pitch

If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day. ↗

— Sandy Koufax

#day #every #formula #fourth #getting

There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard. ↗

— Chili Davis

#away #bat #certain #certain things #counts

You fool around with different pitches playing catch, but it's not the same when you've got to face some guy with a bat in his hand. ↗

— Chili Davis

#bat #catch #different #face #fool

It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking. ↗

— Eric Davis

#change #easy #him #hit #mcgwire

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#house #inside #lived #parents #pillows

I don't have perfect pitch, but I have relative pitch. I'm glad I don't have perfect pitch because perfect pitch can drive you crazy. ↗

— Billy Eckstine

#crazy #drive #glad #i #perfect

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches. ↗

— Bruce Vilanch

#i #pitches #screenplays #sold #were

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything. ↗

— Whitey Ford

#easier #hit #pitch #than

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ↗

— Robert Frost

#both #intervals #like #moments #pitchers

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. ↗

— Joe Garagiola

#better #better now #curve #his #much