Our problem this year is we play down to some teams and up to others. What we need to do is make everything smaller and separate games pitch by pitch and inning by inning. That makes the big picture easier to handle in the long run.
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Related His whole career is he'll walk some guys, but he makes the big pitch to get out of the inning. BOB MELVIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It just seems like I pitch very well until one inning, ... It's always a one-inning thing. If I can ... DUSTIN MCGOWAN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Our kids battled all night. I always ask our kids to do more in extra-inning games, and they did. We... BART BRITTON For me, this game boils down to the first inning. I walk a guy and make one mistake. He's going to h... ZACH DUKE We've let three games slip away this year defensively. That's our problem right now. We can't make t... BRUCE LEWIS See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART He had a blister that was heating up in the sixth inning. Hopefully, he'll get to the point where he... BUCK SHOWALTER Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it." The logic in th... SARAH MACLEAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE! TANYA MASSE It seems like we didn't play a full game - we got a big lead early and the gave up a big inning. We ... MARK ROWLAND We're obviously looking to see how we're going to fare playing four games in one week. It's differen... DAVE MANZO We just happened to get a pitch up in the eighth inning that allowed them to take the lead. Tonight'... JOE MIKULIK We just didn't pitch in the second game. The big inning killed us again. A lot of times the team tha... JAMES MANSINGER Early on, if you see your pitch, you want to drive it. We all got a good pitch to hit early, but we ... JUSTIN SELLERS We know that we can get by with a big inning, but we need to continue to improve overall and we shou... AARON BOONE Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning. ELDEN AUKER I think we need to play in more close games like that. We got nervous in seventh inning. We just nee... DAVE HEISE I asked myself, if we opened the season with Atlanta and had 3-2 games every day, will this man be r... GRADY LITTLE We are the books we read and the things we love. CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you. MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become. EMMA PAUL It is better to grope in the dark and wade through a million errors to reach the Truth than to entru... SUDHIR KAKAR If you argue with a fool, you become a fool. L.A. HILDEN Everyday is another chance to do something great. EMMA PAUL You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm! COLETTE there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely ... OSCAR WILDE I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they... PHILIP HENSHER Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself. MEG CABOT I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what. JENNIFER NIVEN 2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't. JASPER FFORDE I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experie... DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN It's very important to go pitch-by-pitch and game-by-game and not getting too far ahead of mysel... JASON HAMMEL Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning. I read where a pitcher pitched deep... ELDEN AUKER Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI Tommy looked fine. He had only two walks and located the ball well. He gave up three runs in the fir... CHAD ARTZ You've got to give credit to the kid. He made a good play. I know he's tied now in the league with a... MANNY ACTA When you get a chance to get out of inning and you have to get out of the inning. When we didn't mak... GREG WAKEFIELD Seven days off, and I come in with the bases loaded. I made the one out, and that 2-2 pitch was clos... JEFF NELSON The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO He relies mostly on his fastball and slider. He has a curve and a change-up, but doesn't get a chanc... BOB STANLEY PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA It always comes down to pitching and defense. We hit some balls good but right at some people. The t... DENNIS HOLMBERG We're going to pitch, but we didn't pitch great today. There's no doubt about that. Clayton McMillan... JAMES MANSINGER One bad play can come back and haunt you. That's what happened a lot to us this year. We played a go... ERIC PATTERSON Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK [The pitchers] need to carry out what we've given them. I've often found out it is easier for that p... JOE GIRARDI I was concentrating on getting ahead of the hitters to make it make it easier on myself by throwing ... ELIZARDO RAMIREZ I'm not going to pitch. I don't feel like I'm ready to pitch in meaningful games this early in the y... C.C. SABATHIA The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS We try to look at games each week and not look at the big picture, but this is one of the tougher te... FRANK KNIGHT How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. I think the thing that we really have to improve is staying away from the big inning. In most all of... DARIN LOE In order to be successful this weekend, our pitchers need to throw strikes and make our opponents ea... TERRI SULLIVAN A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p... RON CARPENTER JR. I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE We left way too many people on and we gave up one big inning. We had the opportunity to get runs in ... MIKE PIRTLE We haven't really stretched him yet. We scored some runs in the fifth inning, and I wanted to get so... DENNIS BRAUN The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you... LISA KLEYPAS We dropped some easier teams and picked up three new teams this year including West Haven, Amity and... LORI RUBINO Maxim 1: Pillage, then burn. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc... HOWARD TAYLER Every meeting led to a parting, and so it would, as long as life was mortal. In every meeting there ... CASSANDRA CLARE A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life: 1. Never put off to tomorrow wha... THOMAS JEFFERSON You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,... SUDHIR KAKAR The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi... LIBBA BRAY Jennie was outstanding again, ... It's tough to come back into a game and pitch to the top of Northw... CAROL HUTCHINS Jennie was outstanding again. It's tough to come back into a game and pitch to the top of Northweste... CAROL HUTCHINS That's been our problem with us all year. One pitch was the difference in the game, and we just coul... ED EASLEY For us last year, we had the problem of giving up the big inning a lot of the time. We got better as... JEFF ZICKAFOOSE I'm structuring a program that's going to be individualized based on 'X' pitcher. We're going to cre... JOHNNY ALMARAZ Shoot, it sets the tone for the inning. Walks, steals, the error and the wild pitch. JASON BELL That and getting the double-play in the second inning were definitely the two biggest situations I h... DAVE BUSH Again, we gave up a run in the first inning. That's three games in a row we gave up a run in the fir... CURT SMITH We should have scored a run in the first inning. We had a runner on third with one out and couldn't ... CRAIG JONES I told Barret the good thing was that he held his composure and that we didn't have to get him out o... JAMEY SHOUPPE Never underestimate the power of giving a book! CARMELA DUTRA Their speed makes them one of the faster teams in the country. They like to get up and down the ice.... DEREK DAMON We did a good job building an inning. We got some big base hits and putting the ball in play is alwa... GARY MCCLURE Trey is going to give us a chance every time he goes out there, and that's why I pitch him in big ga... MITCH ASHMORE We had a little bit of everything last week. We had an extra inning game, some long games, some exci... DAN HARTLEB Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... As the games go on, we need to separate ourselves from those other teams. We need to keep winning so... KATIE MEINHARDT The pitch is being laid now and we have an agreement to play regional and domestic matches there lat... ROBERT BRYAN We can shake off a pitch, but we usually don't. If we are not confident in the pitches being called ... TAREN TULEY We've done that a lot this year. We find ourselves down by 20 in the first half and we have to fight... FREEMAN PERRY The second inning was better than his first. He had some nice pop, but when you can't get your secon... MARK FOULKES We have some younger girls in our lineup right now. They need to learn to be more aggressive at the ... LES OLSON
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