Famous Quotes & Sayings

He throws an upper-80s fastball with a strong slider and keeps the ball down. He's a competitive kid.

Craig Biggio

He threw me one fastball in, and I kind of didn't see it real well off him,

Craig Biggio

He threw me one fastball and I didn't see it really well,

Miguel Cabrera

He threw a fastball down the middle, and I think I can hit that. I hit it pretty good.

He's a pretty good pitcher. The movement on his fastball is something you can't teach.

Bret Boone

He's a pain-in-the-neck when he's on. He can throw his fastball at 97 (mph) and slider at 92, but gets in trouble with his control. He has to throw strikes.

I usually throw between 120 and 130 pitches in a game. My fastball did me in today as I couldn't hit my spot and they were on top of it.

This was 10 times better than my last start. My location on my fastball was much, much better.

I've preached all year that we've got to hit the fastball better. Last year we didn't do that. There's some pretty good pitchers out there and we've got to be able to handle them.

John Smoltz

The fastball is as good as it's ever been with location.

Randy Johnson

That's probably more than I wanted to throw in four innings. But the velocity on my fastball increased, and that's a good sign. My mechanics were a little better, too.

That first inning could have been a lot worse. When I went out there, I just told him to settle down, take a little off his fastball and to find some strikes. They were struggling to put the ball in play.

Once he settled in, he really did a nice job keeping Taft off balance. They're a really good fastball hitting club, and Marcus was able to throw his off-speed pitches for strikes.

Not too bad, huh? I just guessed fastball and threw my hands at it and it just happened to go.

Carlos Zambrano

I tried to throw a fastball inside, and the ball kind of slipped out of my hand where I didn't want to throw it. That was a big mistake. If I walk Chipper in that situation and get a groundball with the next hitter, then nothing happens and I should win the game 2-0.

I'm able to spot my fastball and everything works off that. I'm trying to take it one game at a time, so let's just say I'm in a good groove.

That's the day I think he learned how to use his fastball a little bit.

It was a middle-in fastball -- my favorite pitch.

It was more of getting a rhythm and getting strike one. Getting strike one on a hitter makes it easier. I was pounding the fastball in there, keeping it down on the inner half and the outer half.

E. O. Wilson

It was nasty. The nastiest one, though, was when he struck out Lane on a fastball down. That's where he's got to learn to pitch.

Ben Sheets

I've just got to locate a little better on my fastball - that makes me have confidence, when I locate the ball a little better.

It was a good day. My fastball I was able to locate and keep them off-balance.

Luis Sojo

They're fastball hitters and they're very aggressive. They jumped on the fastballs.

Brad Penny

In the first inning, I didn't have anything, ... My fastball wasn't right. Then I loosened up and threw pretty well the rest of the game.

John Gibbons

He buries that fastball in on the right-handed hitters and when he gets that slider going you can't do anything with it.

Clint Hurdle

He pitched without the fastball we've seen previous to this,

He pitched non-aggressive and it wasn't fun to watch for two innings. Then he started using his fastball and got back to being Jo. I don't know who was out there for two innings.

Eric Munson

He pounded the strike zone all night long. The fastball was working all night long, so we just stuck with it. He had a pretty good idea of where it was going.

If I can throw my curveball and changeup in fastball counts, it's going to help me so much, especially when I have runners in scoring position because major-league hitters are aggressive, especially when there's runners on base,

I felt right there with him. I threw the same pitch to Nick Johnson - fastball up.

Cliff Floyd

He's not a guy who makes a lot of mistakes. He can get away with a fastball down the middle because you're looking for a pitch on the corner.

His fastball location the first two innings was not there, and that was forcing him to make too many pitches.

Jermaine Dye

I had a game plan going up there. I know he throws a lot of sliders. He throws hard, but usually his fastball is just to keep you honest. And I stuck with the game plan of going up there looking for a slider and just not trying to do too much.