Breaking Ball Quotes

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.

We had to adjust and threw a few more rise balls and curves but it worked.

Everybody here has the ability to throw a fastball down and away or throw a breaking ball in the dirt for a swing and a miss. But are we able to stay in that moment and understand what we're trying to accomplish and see it in our mind before we execute and then make the pitch?

I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

I'm a breaking-ball pitcher.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

When I can buy strikes with that curveball, that just lets everything else play up.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

If a pitcher goes up there and he's throwing a ball and it's a breaking ball down and away or a fastball up and in, a perfect pitcher's pitch, and you're able to just foul it off and stay alive in the at-bat, just keep grinding, keep working through the at-bat and hoping for that mistake that he's going to make. And if he doesn't, then you walk.

I'm trying to throw more curves because I'm always throwing fastball, slider, fastball, slider.

Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball.

Ken Holtzman could pitch a game in ninety minutes. Wouldn't throw a breaking ball. And he had a great breaking ball.

Sandy Koufax is a great teacher. He just talks about competitiveness and being aggressive - about stride length, power, how to spin the breaking ball. The way he explains pitching is simple, which is something you don't see a lot.

If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

I'm the one with the wicked curve ball.