Barry Zito
Barry Zito
Barry William Zitois an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played 15 seasons in Major League Baseballfor the Oakland Athletics and San Francisco Giants. His pitching repertoire consisted of a curveball, a four-seam fastball, a two-seam fastball, a circle changeup, and a cutter–slider...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth13 May 1978
CityLas Vegas, NV
CountryUnited States of America
bounce sitting waiting
Yeah, he was sitting all over it. It was going to bounce in the dirt, but he'd been waiting for it all that (four-pitch) at-bat. There's not much you can do about that.
confidence game reason team totally
We're a totally different team than we were in April, ... We're totally resilient. The team confidence is the reason that we do come back in a game like this.
balls couple felt hit inside kept plate pop strange throwing ups
There were some strange balls that were pop ups and they kept going. I was throwing to the inside part of the plate better and throwing the change. I just felt like a couple of them weren't really hit that well.
last month
This last month should be pretty sweet, man. It's going to be very exciting.
breaks dugout entire figured fired league losing major normally obviously stop teams threw time today yelling
They were getting the breaks we were getting in our streak. I figured they weren't getting breaks like that. ... When you have that kind of losing streak, you really stop caring. They were doing things today that normally major league teams don't do, like every time I threw to first their entire dugout was yelling 'Back!' They obviously were fired up.
brain open picking start
I think as they all get a little more comfortable, I think they'll all start picking my brain a bit. I'm open to all that.
baseball
I think there will be more of a baseball atmosphere.
encounter face generally good regular situation spring
I think it was good to get one of these in. Generally you encounter in spring every situation you'd face in the regular season. This was another one of those.
ball corner establish felt inside keeping
I was working on keeping the ball down and I felt like I did that. I didn't establish the inside corner and that was the difference.
ball guys hitting kept playing seems
I was just getting the ball up. It seems like we were playing guys one place in the outfield, and they kept hitting it to the other, you know? Everything just went their way today.
advantage attentive bit fan freak helps hit works
I was kind of lethargic mentally. But that works to my advantage. It helps me not freak out because you're not attentive to every little hit or what a fan is saying. It's better just to be in a little bit of a daze.
He's better now than he was before he was hurt.
good healthy proven
He's been even better than he was when he was healthy before his injury, ... Elly has really proven how good he is.
sitting waiting
He was sitting all over it. It would have bounced in the dirt. ... Obviously, it was what he was waiting for.