Famous Quotes & Sayings

He can move runners, bunt and execute the hit-and-run.

I thought we played a very good game except for there being too many strikeouts and the bunt defense at third. That ended up being the run that hurt us. Eric tried to guide it over to third and we had the lead runner.

I think we just get into a habit of watching Jaclyn when she starts dominating. And we have to deal with that. We still have to be able to play defense. We need to do a better job of defending the push bunt because they burned us on that a couple times.

I?d like to take back that first inning because we had an opportunity on the bunt to get her at first and missed that and a couple others. We gave them some runs, but I think we held our own.

The key is that we're not playing from behind. When the pitchers do good and our hitters come through, it allows us to bunt and hit and run and do the things it takes to win.

It's just reaction. You work on those bunt plays in Spring Training. It's just fun to execute them.

Brandon Morrow

A lot of the southern teams rely more on slugging than the west coast teams, who like to hit-and-run, bunt and use speed on the bases. I'm going to challenge (Baylor) with the fastball, but I don't think I'm going to change anything else.

It's all about execution. We got the hit, and got the bunt down and then the sacrifice fly. The kids executed down the stretch.

This is what we have been doing, we self-destruct in certain innings. I mean (Chris) Tuttle certainly wasn't on his game, he walked quite a few, but he had a couple bunt situations early on, routine plays, that changed the whole outcome of those two innings.

We're going to put pressure on some folks. With a bunt and run, a squeeze play, and a lot of hit and runs, we're going to be aggressive.

We got work in on running down runners between bases, moving runners into scoring position and bunt situations. These are fundamentals you usually don't work on until district play.

After missing out on a chance to score more runs in the sixth and then not getting that bunt down, it was certainly nice to see Manual pick us up after that. It's also definitely a good feeling to put together a couple of wins after going through some struggles like we did.

Sayers had a great day. He produced big for us, and that bunt kept a rally going. It seems like with this team, we have a different hero step up every day.

It was an ESPN highlight. There wasn't anything wrong with the bunt or the runner. Matt just made an unbelievable play.

Willie Bloomquist

We already had an out and that took the sacrifice bunt out of the equation, and I had to get there.

We're trying to get her to switch hit and bunt left-handed. She has good speed, so that will be helpful. She'll probably be at the top of the order.

You don't have to worry about slumps with him because he can always bunt to get on base.

Chone Figgins

The touch is coming back, which is good. I'm just getting a feel for it. I'm not going to go up there and think bunt every at-bat, but more situational.

Marcus Giles

Obviously a double play is not in order with the runners going, so as a defender you're thinking, 'Get the runner out,' ... When the swinging bunt happened, I had it my mind that I was going home, hoping that Pedro didn't get alerted that I was going.

Chris Burke

I was going up there thinking about laying down a bunt the first pitch,

Ben Johnson

I was still disappointed in myself that I didn't get the bunt down because I know I can, ... but I guess it all worked out in the end today.

Ben Johnson

I was still disappointed in myself I didn't get the bunt down because I feel I can do it, but I guess it all worked out today in the end. We'll take it, but in the end we'll have to execute. Stuff like that very rarely happens.

If we get that bunt down, it would have benefited us because we would have tied the game (on the next hit), but those things happen.

She's one of those players who steps up to the plate and you can just see in her face that she's saying, 'I'm going to hit it by you, around you, over you, and you're not going to get me out. She can hit the home runs, she can bunt to get on, she's fast and she's very smart. She's just got that softball edge.

Mario Cuomo

I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is good. Giving yourself up for the good of the whole.

Dontrelle Willis

I finally got a bunt down - I can't remember the last time I did that.

Maybe you have to bunt to get on base, instead of standing and striking out. We're not going to run our own slate for the sake of running our own slate. We'll do that only if we're left with no other option.

That was huge. Even that inning they had an infield hit and a bunt hit. Our pitching was really good. Jose did a great job settling down.

That was his first bunt hit of the year.

Doug Mientkiewicz

I wasn't trying to bunt it, that's for sure.

Without a doubt, I thought we'd make that up. The way we've been swinging it I wanted to create a good inning and not just bunt the runner to third.

You don't expect that out of your ninth hitter. For most teams, the ninth hitter goes 1-for-4, but today he had two hits and a sacrifice bunt that set up another run.

We couldn't get the key hits today. We didn't get bunt well, either. We didn't get a single bunt down all day.