Pitched Quotes

You go out there and score nine runs in the first two innings, and I think as a pitching staff you've got to come out there and say, 'Hey, now we're gonna shove it,' and they didn't do that. We pitched today not to lose too much, I think. - Doug Fleetwood

You don't get here by making excuses. I'm not exactly fresh as a daisy, but it's not like I've pitched 1,000 innings. - Jonathan Papelbon

You couldn't breathe. The lights didn't work and the radio transmitters would emit this incredibly high-pitched white noise. - Ben Affleck

You can't say enough about Lance Davis tonight... He went out there and pitched with his heart and unfortunately we fell a little short. But these guys, they play with their heart and they play with their emotion and some days you gotta win and some days you gotta lose. - Pete Rose

You can't panic (early). None of our pitchers pitched real well, We had a few errors, but I knew that with our bats, we were going to come together and score runs. - Tom Kandler

You can't go up there and take strike one and put yourself in the hole. We weren't aggressive with the bats. Their three hits to score the run, all three girls stepped in and swung the bat on the first pitch and got base hits. (Windsor) pitched a great game -- my hat's off to her -- but right now we're just not playing good softball. - Rolf Rhodes

You can't expect to walk five, six hitters every time you go out there and expect to win at the big league level. It's impossible. The last few times he's pitched, we've beaten up our bullpen. If we get another one like that, we'll try to find a replacement for him, too. - Lou Piniella

You almost don't need to watch the video. He's pitched good before, so it's not like we haven't seen it this year. He's made (four) starts and one of them hasn't been good; one out of (four) isn't a bad average and it'll be better than that by the end. - Ron Guidry