Words matter. These are the best Inning Quotes from famous people such as Tim Hudson, Gerrit Cole, George Steinbrenner, Alex Bregman, Earl Weaver, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve preached to our young guys that strikeouts are sexy, but outs are outs, man, no matter how you get them. It’s a lot cooler for me pitching in the seventh or eighth inning than it is going 5 1/3. Your manager likes it a lot more, too.
You’ve got to try to close every inning out, take it one inning at a time, one batter at a time.
Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.
I feel really good in the box when I get an AB in the first inning. I feel like it just starts the day the right way.
There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you’re making everything harder for yourself.
It’s never over. You don’t want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it’s not over until the last out.
I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the first inning I felt fairly good.
Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn’t open. You have to live with that. It’s an occupational hazard.
It is good to kind of put your pride aside for the betterment of the ball club. We are all on board for that, even if you want to go another inning.
You never know when you’re going to throw a no-hitter or if you’re ever going to get the chance to do it. It’s one of those deals where the ninth inning comes around; it’s either going to be your night or just a complete game.
But I’m not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on.
I’d love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and play, just for one inning. I’d also steal everything I could get my hands on in the clubhouse, which is why they won’t let me do it.
There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.
Leading off an inning you never know, I could get a bunt base hit and start a rally.
I know in the heat of battle, it’s hard not to get angry, especially in the 19th inning.
Any time you can go out there and throw 12 pitches in any inning, you give your team some momentum coming in and get some confidence out on the mound.
I never understood that when I heard people retire – they said they missed being around the guys. I don’t have a need to make a play in the ninth inning of a game anymore. But being on the inside and being part of a team is something that you really do value and you really do miss.
If you are a reliever, you get one inning per game or if you are a starter you get one game per week. There is a lot of buildup for a little bit of work compared to the guys who play every down or play every day in baseball.
