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Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. – Joe adcock	added by anonymous 1 year ago
It wasn’t heated at all. It was just the moment and a crappy situation, i’ve been playing against Blake since we were 10, 11 years old, so I know there was no ill will behind that at all. The inside pitch is part of the game. He is a great player and a great human being as well. I wish him the best, and I told him to keep throwing that inside fastball because it sets that slider really good. – Bryce Harper	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I just kept battling it out, I'd seen Ozzie Albies stuff or whatever, so I was sitting on the off-speed, and I was thinking to Jorge Soler, if he throws me an off-speed pitch, I can connect and drive the ball, if Ozzie Albies throws me a fastball, I'm just going to try to stay alive during this at-bat. I got to 3-2, and I didn't want the same thing to happen on the first inning at-bat where I struck out on the off-speed pitch. So I was just kind of getting prepared for that. – Jorge Soler	Found on CNN 2 years ago
My fastball command was pretty good, i felt it had good metrics to it. It was one of my higher carry days of the season. That’s good to see. That’s one of my strong points. I think it’s the highest that it’s been this year. I felt like I located it pretty well. – Jake Odorizzi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our game plan to establish the fastball and their game plan to jump on it kind of matched up together. – Gerrit Cole	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You have to wait for the mistake fastball but obviously, he had command, he had stuff tonight. – New York	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was fastball command all night, that opened everything up for the off-speed. – Zach Plesac	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They just came out really aggressive, it just seemed like every time I threw a fastball, they were ready for it. I guess their plan was to swing early because that’s what they were doing. – Drew Smyly	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I didn’t really have good fastball velocity, i didn’t feel like I could just reach back and throw it 95 or 96 and blow someone up. It was a lot more trying to be crafty. – Lucas Giolito	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I feel like the homers were a little bit ambushed, i need to make better pitches when they’re expecting the fastball. – Shohei Ohtani	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The life on his fastball tonight, I thought early in the ballgame, the first couple of innings is as hard as I've seen him throw, maybe ever, and we've seen him a lot. – Scott Servais	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I felt good on the mound, I felt really good with my pitches, about maybe the fifth inning where I was like, ‘ OK it’s a possibility. ’ Just felt like my fastball was really good today. I felt like I was able to pretty much put where I wanted to. – Robbie Ray	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
On deck I was just kind of rehearsing what I wanted to get from him. I was looking for a fastball and just see myself have success and then you get that feeling that I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna come through and it happened, i was just pumped up. – Mitch Haniger	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
A little bit of command issues, especially fastball command from my view. – Manager David Ross	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The main thing was the velocity of my fastball wasn’t there, as well as my command of it, and my secondary pitches just weren’t as sharp as always as well. – Yusei Kikuchi	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He missed some spots with his fastball again, obviously, a little bit of a tough start there for him. – Aaron Boone	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When you have a six-run lead after the first inning, you kind of have to be more aggressive with the fastball and hopefully get deeper into games. – Anthony Kay	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You have to give credit where credit is due, that’s two games in a row that he’s made it real tough on us. He has a really good fastball and he throws a curveball for a strike when he wants to. He’s just a guy in a groove right now who’s doing what he wants on the mound. – Daniel Vogelbach	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
To see Shohei find fastball command, that’s what it’s going to look like most of the time, he looked spectacular. He was not overwrought with sliders and splitters. He challenged with fastballs. I think his full complements of talent were on display tonight. – Joe Maddon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Man, once he really gains even better command of the fastball and we get him stretched out a bit, pitching on a more consistent basis, I could see him going 100 pitches strong. – Joe Maddon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The way it plays during the game, I see which of my pitches work for me, today my fastball, the velocity was there for me, so I used it more. – Vintage Ryu	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I don't know how you guys feel about this, Blummer and Baggy, but for me, it was the slider, i can take the fastball. But I actually had somebody ask me if I could go back in history and change one thing, I skipped right over slavery and went to the slider. That's how I feel about it. – Preston Wilson	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
To engage an ICBM with THAAD would be like asking a high school baseball player to hit a fastball from a major-league pitcher - literally out of his league. – John Schilling	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I felt pretty good about my fastball today and I was throwing it a lot. Towards the end, I got a little tired because of that. – Tommy John	Found on Reuters 7 years ago

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

– Joe adcock

added by anonymous
1 year ago

It wasn’t heated at all. It was just the moment and a crappy situation, i’ve been playing against Blake since we were 10, 11 years old, so I know there was no ill will behind that at all. The inside pitch is part of the game. He is a great player and a great human being as well. I wish him the best, and I told him to keep throwing that inside fastball because it sets that slider really good.

– Bryce Harper

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I just kept battling it out, I'd seen Ozzie Albies stuff or whatever, so I was sitting on the off-speed, and I was thinking to Jorge Soler, if he throws me an off-speed pitch, I can connect and drive the ball, if Ozzie Albies throws me a fastball, I'm just going to try to stay alive during this at-bat. I got to 3-2, and I didn't want the same thing to happen on the first inning at-bat where I struck out on the off-speed pitch. So I was just kind of getting prepared for that.

– Jorge Soler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

My fastball command was pretty good, i felt it had good metrics to it. It was one of my higher carry days of the season. That’s good to see. That’s one of my strong points. I think it’s the highest that it’s been this year. I felt like I located it pretty well.

– Jake Odorizzi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our game plan to establish the fastball and their game plan to jump on it kind of matched up together.

– Gerrit Cole

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You have to wait for the mistake fastball but obviously, he had command, he had stuff tonight.

– New York

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was fastball command all night, that opened everything up for the off-speed.

– Zach Plesac

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They just came out really aggressive, it just seemed like every time I threw a fastball, they were ready for it. I guess their plan was to swing early because that’s what they were doing.

– Drew Smyly

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I didn’t really have good fastball velocity, i didn’t feel like I could just reach back and throw it 95 or 96 and blow someone up. It was a lot more trying to be crafty.

– Lucas Giolito

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I feel like the homers were a little bit ambushed, i need to make better pitches when they’re expecting the fastball.

– Shohei Ohtani

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The life on his fastball tonight, I thought early in the ballgame, the first couple of innings is as hard as I've seen him throw, maybe ever, and we've seen him a lot.

– Scott Servais

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I felt good on the mound, I felt really good with my pitches, about maybe the fifth inning where I was like, ‘ OK it’s a possibility. ’ Just felt like my fastball was really good today. I felt like I was able to pretty much put where I wanted to.

– Robbie Ray

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

On deck I was just kind of rehearsing what I wanted to get from him. I was looking for a fastball and just see myself have success and then you get that feeling that I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna come through and it happened, i was just pumped up.

– Mitch Haniger

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A little bit of command issues, especially fastball command from my view.

– Manager David Ross

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The main thing was the velocity of my fastball wasn’t there, as well as my command of it, and my secondary pitches just weren’t as sharp as always as well.

– Yusei Kikuchi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He missed some spots with his fastball again, obviously, a little bit of a tough start there for him.

– Aaron Boone

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When you have a six-run lead after the first inning, you kind of have to be more aggressive with the fastball and hopefully get deeper into games.

– Anthony Kay

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You have to give credit where credit is due, that’s two games in a row that he’s made it real tough on us. He has a really good fastball and he throws a curveball for a strike when he wants to. He’s just a guy in a groove right now who’s doing what he wants on the mound.

– Daniel Vogelbach

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To see Shohei find fastball command, that’s what it’s going to look like most of the time, he looked spectacular. He was not overwrought with sliders and splitters. He challenged with fastballs. I think his full complements of talent were on display tonight.

– Joe Maddon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Man, once he really gains even better command of the fastball and we get him stretched out a bit, pitching on a more consistent basis, I could see him going 100 pitches strong.

– Joe Maddon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The way it plays during the game, I see which of my pitches work for me, today my fastball, the velocity was there for me, so I used it more.

– Vintage Ryu

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I don't know how you guys feel about this, Blummer and Baggy, but for me, it was the slider, i can take the fastball. But I actually had somebody ask me if I could go back in history and change one thing, I skipped right over slavery and went to the slider. That's how I feel about it.

– Preston Wilson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

To engage an ICBM with THAAD would be like asking a high school baseball player to hit a fastball from a major-league pitcher - literally out of his league.

– John Schilling

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I felt pretty good about my fastball today and I was throwing it a lot. Towards the end, I got a little tired because of that.

– Tommy John

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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