Keyword: Pitching (Page 2)

Reporter: Is it true that you’d throw at your own mother.
Gomez: You’re damn right I would, she’s a good hitter.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
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He can embarrass the batter on one pitch and the catcher on the next.

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Trying to throw a fastball by Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sun by a rooster.

(1929 – ) American baseball player
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Good pitching always stops good hitting and vice versa.

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They can’t hit it while I’m standing here holding it.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
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We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.

(1931 – ) American baseball player & manager
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Once a pitcher loses his fastball, he has to go to the garbage.

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A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
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Lefty Grove could throw a lamb chop past a wolf.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist
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Sandy’s fastball was so fast, some batters would start to swing as he was on his way to the mound.

(1919 – 1998) American sportswriter
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I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.

American baseball pitcher
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He (Satchel Paige) threw the ball as far from the bat and as close to the plate as possible.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
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Oh, hell, if you win twenty games they want you to do it every year.

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I don’t know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager
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When Neil Armstong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object; I knew immediately what it was… that was a home run ball hit off me in 1933 by Jimmie Foxx.

(1908 – 1989) American baseball player
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I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter, that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit.

American baseball player & commentator
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Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.

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He’s throwing grounders.

(1890 – 1975) American baseball manager
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Gibson's the luckiest pitcher I've ever seen because he always picks the night to pitch when the other team doesn't score any runs.

American baseball player & commentator
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If I knew he was gonna throw a no-hitter, I would have thrown one too.

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