Pitches Quotes

You shouldn't be throwing 100 pitches in five or six innings. - Jack McKeon

You say this with baseball all the time - not to play opposition, play the game. That's the key for us. Miami is kind of out of the equation. It's us. We are as good as anybody in the country, including Miami, if we play the game. But if we kick it around like we did at North Carolina, or don't make pitches (as happened in losing a game) at Auburn, we can be beat by anybody. - Jamey Shouppe

You run out of things to say about Pedro. As he goes, the rest of the team goes. Our energy level picks up a notch when he pitches. - David Wright

You never know when enough is enough. The five we got was enough. Every at-bat that inning was a quality at-bat, we had quality at-bats late in the game, but they made some good pitches and got out of some tough spots. - Razor Shines

You need to nibble around the edges with these guys and we did make quality pitches when we had to, with runners on base. - Jon Deeble

You miss your pitches some times -- that is part of the game... I've missed a lot of pitches this year. - Garret Anderson

You make bad pitches to Major League hitters, they put the fat part of the bat on the ball. When you are involved in games like that, regardless of what stages it's at, you don't have the luxury of making a mistake and not feeling like it's going to cost you. It is. - Jim Tracy

You look at it like you're losing 1-0 or winning 1-0. I've had a tendency in the past when I'm up 8-0 to lose focus on a couple pitches. Before you know it, it's 8-5. If you think about you're winning or losing 1-0, it makes things so much better. You get people out. - Sidney Ponson

You know, I was on vacation. I went out there, I was strong, threw a lot of strikes, made good pitches. That's all. - Freddy Garcia

You know what? That was the longest inning I've had in a long time. It seemed like 100 pitches. I'm glad it's early and got it out of the way. Don't want many of those, man. - Eddie Guardado