You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.
I'm a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.
The thing most people don't understand is that pitching isn't the same every time out.
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.
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.
My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.
I've pitched too many innings and pitched too many years - one game doesn't make or break my career.
Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game.
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.