The pitcher is in trouble, not me. He has to throw it over the plate and I have to put a good swing on it.
A lot of boxers have too much on their plate.
I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also, I know I was not a power hitter.
I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive.
At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.
You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams.
Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.
When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.
There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
If they are going to nibble and try to go below the zone or off the plate a little bit, I want to try and get a pitch in the zone that I can do damage on.
SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.
What's that plate that's above a saucer but below a plate?
He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.
I was in a fever to get out from behind the plate. Oh boy, I was terrible back there.
Casey didn't easily forgive a guy who got doubled up on a hit-and-run play. He didn't see any reason why the runner couldn't take a quick glance back toward the plate to make sure the ball was hit safely.
I broke my shoulder, or my collarbone, I shouldn't say my shoulder, and I had surgery, six screws and a plate in here.
