#pitcher

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist. ↗

— Alvin Dark

#batter #communist #deliberately #him #hit

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher. ↗

— Earl Weaver

#momentum #next #pitcher #starting

The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it. ↗

— Al Leiter

#chess #pitcher #play #setting #up

There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether. ↗

— Jim Palmer

#altogether #cure #gone #off #only

In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it. ↗

— Duke Snider

#action #any #ball #break #decide

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter. ↗

— Warren Spahn

#better #between #challenge #hitter #life

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

#batters #business #figure #figures #games

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#amazed #angry #ball #becomes #get

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game. ↗

— Cy Young

#get #good #got #hit #lucky

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#cheer #pitchers #practice #sit #stay