Braden Looper
Braden Looper
Braden LaVerne Looperis a former Major League Baseball pitcher...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth28 October 1974
CityWeatherford, OK
falls regardless responsibility team ultimate
The ultimate responsibility falls on me. We have a lot better team this year, regardless of this streak. I don't know why this is happening.
definitely gets good time
I'm not as good as I'll be in a month. I'll definitely be better. The only thing that gets you better is getting into games. Every time out there I feel it's better, better, better.
best describe rock running shoe
The best way to describe it, ... is you have a quarter-inch rock in your shoe and you're just running with it all the time. It's irritating. You feel like you can't do what you want to do.
everybody team won
I let my team down. I let everybody down, ... We should have won the game.
almost blame exact
As a closer, you never like to get pulled. But it's the manager's call, and he almost made the exact right call. How could you blame him?
allowed chance establish gave league major pitch trade worked
The trade gave me a chance to pitch and grow. In retrospect, it worked out well. It allowed me to establish myself at the major league level.
definitely hard
It would be hard to say no, ... But it's definitely not what I prefer.
goes matter seems time
This is probably the most frustrating time I've ever had. It seems no matter what I do right now, it goes wrong.
definitely early few good hacking happen left middle pitch pitches ready stage threw
They were hacking at the first pitch I threw every time. It was a good test. I got ready quick. I got ready in the middle of an inning. I definitely left a few pitches up, and that's going to happen for me early because I'm still in that feeling-out stage early after surgery.
bad time
These streaks come and go. It's just a bad time for us. That's for sure.
ball best feeling felt good great matter mound since throwing
I feel great physically, which is why (this stinks) because I've battled so long to get to feeling good. It's the best I've felt on the mound since 2004. ... It's just a matter of getting back to what I'm good at - that's throwing the ball down in the zone.
ask bad days gotten habits hopefully last pitches repeated rid three
I feel like I'm making progress. And that's all you can ask for. ... I feel like right now, the last two or three days I've hopefully gotten rid of some bad habits and consistently repeated my delivery. If I can do that, my pitches are going to be down and I'm going to be successful.
form
I feel like I'm getting my form back.
ball career entire finish liked maybe needs role
I know my role is to get the ball to Izzy and that's fine. If he needs a day off, I can close. I always liked St. Louis. I didn't get to play my entire career there, but who knows, maybe I will finish it there.