Strikeout Quotes

You must give Campbell credit. When we had runners in scoring position, they either made plays or their pitchers came up with strikeouts. - Alan Crawford

You might see him go 0 for 10 with eight strikeouts and then hit three home runs. He's going to let it fly. - Ron Gardenhire

You just try to minimize the damage and you get your concentration down to one hitter at a time, in and out. I was fortunate enough to get three strikeouts there and get us out of the inning. - Tim Wakefield

You can't win unless your pitcher is throwing strikes. She's thrown a lot of strikeouts. But she has a good defense behind her. ... If she gives up a hit, they will make the play. - Ron Hoyt

You can't win a ballgame averaging nine strikeouts in the lineup and that's about what we had. - Eric Etchison

You can't strikeout 13 times in a game and think that you did something good. - Mitch Gaspard

You can live with some strikeouts when you're going to have a lot of power. - Phil Garner

Woody uses it more as a strikeout pitch. He's using it the way other pitchers might use a splitter or a cutter. There's no doubt it's a good weapon when you're working with it like he does, ahead in the count. - Doug Mirabelli

With no outs you're just trying to minimize damage on the first and third. Once I got the first strikeout then I was going for a ground ball, just trying to get out of the inning, and I ended up having a strikeout and Bobby came in and did the rest. - Neal Cotts