If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.
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Pitchers are going to break. You can limit their pitches and limit their innings, and they're still going to blow out. Pitching is hard on the arm.
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 was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.
When you don't have one that you throw for strikes - they are good hitters - they can cancel out one pitch and go to another. Now I have four pitches. If one's not working, I've got three others. It makes the game totally different.
If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.
You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing; that makes the arm stronger.
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