#pitches

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

You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches. ↗

— Dennis Eckersley

#going #just #long #pitches #stick

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up. ↗

— Warren Spahn

#looking #needs #pitcher #pitches #them

Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong. ↗

— Al Leiter

#broadcast #enough #get #goes #guys

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later. ↗

— Al Leiter

#chess #chess game #differently #early #game

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. ↗

— Alex Rodriguez

#better #could #drive #established #game

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

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded. ↗

— David Cone

#charted #data #discarded #game #had

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