Quotes in 'ball' Topic

ball eye took

We took our eye off the ball as a company.

ball country crystal difficult economic headed personal situation

The only crystal ball even more difficult to read than where one's own personal situation may be is where the country is headed and what the country's economic situation will be in 20 or 30 years.

ball focused games hitting nobody past

The past two games we haven't been hitting the ball. He had to be (critical) ? nobody was hitting the ball. We should've hit the ball a lot better, and we weren't focused on the fundamentals.

ball past teams three thrown

The past three weeks, teams haven't thrown the ball his way.

balls blocking calling catcher definitely gold

The arm, I don't think it's the most important part of a catcher when it comes to the Gold Glove. It's definitely a factor, but it's calling a game, receiving, blocking balls.

ball court

That was in the D.A.'s court. Now the ball is in the court of the LAPD.

ball cutting far paid practiced putting spent spring swing time training

That was huge. We spent a lot of time in spring training working on two-strike counts. We practiced that, as far as putting the ball in play and cutting down your swing a little bit, and it paid off.

ball capitalize changed draw huge instead mentality tie won

That was huge for them. If we had won that draw it could have changed the whole mentality of the game. If you don't have the ball you can't do the things you need to. They were able to capitalize on that and instead of it being a tie game, they went up by two.

ball catch difficult easy full grasp grass home innings realize synthetic threw weak wet worked

That was a very difficult play. For one or two innings I had to realize that it was raining, that the grass was wet, and that when you have synthetic turf wet it is difficult to catch a ball and grasp it very well. I threw it home and I had to do it at full blast, not just an easy throw, a weak throw, but I had to do it full blast, and it worked out well.

ball balls control knew lay missed played stood sweet threw

That was a sweet shot. We knew they'd control the ball well, so we threw some counters at them. We missed some opportunities to lay some balls in, but we stood up and played them well.

ballgame double drive hit less line man plus saved third twice

That was a real plus for us because he saved the game. We just need more of that. Twice we had a man on third with less than two out. Once we hit into a double play, and once we kind of rolled into a line drive double play. That's the ballgame right there.

ball catch difficult grasp grass hard home soft synthetic threw throw wet worked

That was the play of the game. It was raining, the grass was wet, and when you have wet synthetic turf it is difficult to catch a ball and grasp it very well. I threw it home as hard as I could, because a soft throw wouldn't work, and it worked out well.

ball critical half last minutes played point

That was the most critical point in the game. We haven't played well in the last minutes of the half this year, but we played well, got it to one, and that was the ball game.