413 Quotes About Bats

The MCC maintain that the epoxy that is used as adhesive to glue the covering to the wood of the blade, produces some molecular reaction, whereby the carbon graphite can be considered as part of the blade. The fact that 60 per cent of bats with manufactured coverings use such epoxy does not seem to have been a consideration.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

Hopefully, our pitching will hold up. Buchholz has been swinging the bats awfully well (scoring 35 runs in three tournament games), so we'll have our work cut out for ourselves.

We had to battle in that first game. We were down 10-2 but got the bats going. Everyone stepped up.

When you swing the bats like that, you're going to be pretty tough to beat. It was a good day. The hitters did a good job. It wasn't like their pitchers were slopping it up there.

We only had two hits in the first five innings, and you're not gonna win very often doing that. We've been swinging the bats good lately, but it just wasn't our night. That was their best pitcher and he did a good job.

We know how good he is, but not a lot of other teams know about him. By the end of the year I think he'll have a lot of teams interested in him. I wasn't expecting us to swing the bats that well, but I thought we'd pitch it a little better. Overall, it was a good game for us coming out of the gate.

We are keeping games under control now. And we have the hitters to win close games. The girls feel they have the bats to win a game in the bottom of the seventh.

Those were good wins for us. We pitched well, we played defense and we got the hits when we needed them. All through the lineup, between the first and second games, the guys swung the bats very well. Just a good day overall.