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.
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Life's like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out it's the ninth 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.
For me, it's just going up on the mound and trying to get outs.
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.
Usually during the regular season, if you're starting pitcher, you're kind of walking back and forth from the clubhouse to the dugout and not really paying attention to what's going on.
If you rush in and out of the clubhouse, you rush in and out of baseball.
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
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.
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.
Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.
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