#batters

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business. ↗

— Warren Spahn

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I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#baseball #batters #come #down #heavy

Striking out batters was easy. ↗

— George Herman

#easy #out #striking

Anybody's best pitch is the one the batters ain't hitting that day. ↗

— Christy Mathewson

#batters #best #day #hitting #pitch

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#been #born #easy #felt #got

I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from. ↗

— Randy Johnson

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Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails. ↗

— Euripides

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I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway. ↗

— Gil Hodges

#batters #him #hit #i #tell