Quotes about balls
balls bat found hit night smashing struggled
He just struggled all night long. They weren't smashing balls all over the place. They hit some balls off the end of the bat and they found some holes. Ned Yost
balls felt location parts
He just never really got it going tonight. He felt good, he felt all right. At times he popped it at 93 and most parts he got it around 90. He had a lot of balls up (and) his location just wasn't very good.
balls gave ground hits threw ton tonight
He just gave up a ton of ground balls tonight that were infield hits and ones that got through. He just threw so many pitches. Bobby Cox
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He got beat up pretty good today. They hit some balls hard. He was around the plate, throwing strikes. I just hope he's all right. Dusty Baker
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He does things that drive hitters nuts. I've never seen a pitcher get so many ground balls back to the mound. That's all about movement. Joe Torre
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He doesn't throw the hardest ball, but he doesn't have to. He's pretty receiver-friendly. A little zip is good, so that it really sticks. Reggie can handle those balls better. He has ridiculous hands. Dallas Clark
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He looked great, ... He has some explosiveness. He turned on the juice a little bit and you can see the speed that he carries with him. He gets physical for defenders and fought for a couple of balls out there. ...
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He may be one of those guys who we have to see a few times before we get used to him. A lot of guys, you don't see them using their breaking balls this early and he uses more breaking balls than anything else, and they're good breaking balls. It kept us off balance. Michael Barrett
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Hell, I dropped it. I was too worried about my feet staying in bounds. I took my eyes off the ball. The great ones don't miss balls in the Super Bowl. I still left some plays out on the field. Hines Ward
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He missed a couple balls out there. You want to see him be a little more accurate. He threw some behind, but he will continue to get better. He's better than he was last fall and I feel confident that he has improved from the fall. Ron Zook
balls ground
We can make him go out there and take 100 ground balls but then he's not going to be able to play. It has to be the right kind of work. Don Mattingly
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Today, it was my mistake because we had different balls (than were used in Montreal and Cincinnati). I tried to make it different, my tension for strings was harder here and I tried to make no mistakes because the tension was hard and I had more control. I tried to come back but at 6-5 broke my string. I took my old racket and I lost in the tiebreak. I played really slow, Chela played good today and tried to make winners, and for me, if I play slow I can beat nobody. Nikolay Davydenko
balls breaks came dropped early intensity second talked
We talked about (playing with) intensity in the second half, and... we just came out flat. We didn't get a lot of breaks -- not a lot of balls dropped for us early -- but that's no excuse. We just came out flat.
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We took a fair bit of stick after the first two games and, to be honest, we were very critical of ourselves too because those performances simply weren't good enough. We were a lot better today but having said that, there were quite a few things I didn't like, such as dropping nine balls into the Galway goalkeeper's hands.
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I am a hands guy, but I can catch it with my body. I am sure it will change my catching philosophy just a little bit down the field. But when I get back I'll practice so I'll have to figure out which balls to catch with my body and which to catch with my hands when I am wearing (the cast).
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I am having a blast watching Stewart play. That is a big day with a couple of hits coming off left-hand arms. He struck balls well in the big part of the ballpark. He is a good looking young player. Clint Hurdle
balls both drop good locations
Cara did a good job. She had her locations down, both with her drop balls and her rises.
balls both good ground seems sides year
He was working both sides of the plate. He got a lot of ground balls, got what he needed. He's had a good year and it seems like he's been doing it to more than just us.
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He scored 50-some in Toronto and we ended up losing. He obviously had a great night, but we couldn't get the crucial stops. They beat us to the loose balls or they got the offensive boards or we had offensive breakdowns. Zydrunas Ilgauskas
balls breaking caught good hard kids
He's caught hard throwers, he's caught kids with good breaking balls. He's experienced. Dick Adams
balls changing control location throw today various
He had his control today and was changing speed. He didn't throw a lot of balls in the same location and used various speeds.
balls chance hits hold serves win
He hits the balls hard, which I like. I just try to hold my serves and find a chance to win points.
balls blows breaking fastball found guys sitting start strike throw
He has really found a way to throw breaking balls in the strike zone. Guys start sitting on the breaking ball, then he blows a 95-mile-per-hour fastball by them.
balls flying gives gotten monitor reminder starting stay swelling takes
He had a little swelling starting there and that was a concern, but there wasn't anything he could say to stay in. We'll monitor him real closely, but I think we may have gotten real lucky. It gives you a reminder of what it takes to go out there. You're so close, and balls are flying off the bat. Buck Showalter
balls batting bunch great hit practice
He had a great batting practice today. He hit a bunch of balls into the water. Felipe Alou
balls dropped few game
He had a game which we needed. He's dropped a few balls this year, but in the rain, he catches everything.
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People will fall in love with Jeff Adrien. All he does is come to work, put the hard hat on, just keep getting balls off the glass. Hopefully, as we move up in caliber and size, he's still able to do that. Jim Calhoun
balls phase
Phase two has begun. I say to Silvio 'go on like that'. He really has balls.
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Plenty of gun opponents have pointed out the obvious: that the Founding Fathers could never have envisioned the kinds of 'arms' that exist today - Washington, Jefferson, and the rest had never even seen a bullet. Musket balls for guns that required constant reloading were the 'arms' of the day. Kurt Eichenwald
balls came chad deserve extra loose
(Post Chad Beecroft) and (Brenner) were phenomenal. They just did the extra things, got the loose balls, came away with the tips. They deserve a lot of credit.
balls couple feels game hit home last missed night run swing time
My swing feels good. Last night (Friday), I missed a home run by just a couple of feet. And the game before that, I hit a couple of balls hard. I don't feel I'm in a slump. I still feel every time I'm out there that I'm going to hit a home run.
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Nix looks healthy. He's swinging the bat real good, this is the best I've seen him in a long time. Hopefully we can carry this through into the games. His lower half is a lot better and he's able to square up balls better.
balls changed hit kid speeds stayed
Give that kid credit, he stayed down and changed speeds a lot. We hit a lot of balls off the end of the bat.