Sinker Quotes

You know what you're going to get out of him. You're going to get about 85 percent sinkers and make you try and get the ball up in the air. He'll throw you sinkers until you make an adjustment. If you do get a couple of baserunners he's one of the best at getting the double-play ball. - Bob Melvin

You have to raise your level when you face a guy like Roger. You don't want to make the first mistake. I made a mechanical adjustment on my sinker and was able to hit the lower part of the strike zone. - Jeff Weaver

You have to pitch inside. It was a sinker that moved too much. I didn't want to hit him. What can you do? - Franklyn German

With a guy coming off Tommy John surgery, it's usually the second year those guys come around. We like our defense, especially our infield defense, and its potential to be a good fit with a sinkerball pitcher. - Allard Baird

When people see him pitch for the first time, they see someone with average stuff, average sinker, average change, average breaking ball. - Gil Patterson

When I'm throwing a good sinker, I get a lot of quick outs. If I get beat, I want to get beat on my best pitches and that's what happened. I can handle that. - Mark Mulder

We want to see his command, we want him to utilize his pitches... We also want to see him use his two-seam fastball and sinkerball. - Clint Hurdle

We have 10 years of data on sinkers, and using average figures from those years, we can account for twice as much carbon than sediment traps can measure below 1,000 meters. - Rob Sherlock

We did get a few hits, but then he was able to get that sinker going and then we'd hit into a double play. Give him credit. - Alan Trammell

Usually, if he makes a mistake, they don't hit him out of the ballpark with that sinker. He made a mistake; that's what happens with youth. We have a young pitching staff and a young bullpen that's subject sometimes to walks and also subject to mistakes. - Dusty Baker