Home-plate collisions are something you cannot ignore.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.
He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.
If you're not in the game, you can't hit a home run.
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'
I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway.
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
At an early age, if you develop a delivery or a throwing motion that is direct to the plate, then that's fine. If you have one that's slightly open, that's fine, too.
A lot of these catchers don't understand that they are blocking the plate and they don't have the ball. You're not allowed to block the plate without the ball.
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.