Jerry Coleman Baseball Quotations

Tony Gwynn, the fat batter behind Finley, is waiting.

Turner was like a pencil. He bent around that pitch!

Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.

Renko has just about had it. Pretty soon somebody will come out of the dugout with a fork and get him.

George Hendrick simply lost that sun-blown pop-up.

The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn't even started.

Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass.

Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon.

Templeton is as hot as you can be and still walk!

I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.

Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.

With one out in the first, Dave Roberts looks a lot better than the last time he pitched against the Padres!

When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.

I've never seen a game like this. Every game this year has been like this.

You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was going that fast.

That was like swatting June bugs off a fly.

DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.

What a great hitch to pit!

Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

National League umpires wear inside chest protesters.

The Phillies beat the Cubs today in a doubleheader. That puts another keg in the Cubs' coffin.

There's a hard shot to LeMaster, he throws Madlock into the dugout.

Reggie Smith of the Dodgers and Gary Matthews of the homers hit Braves in that game.

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

Sanguillen is totally unpredictable to pitch to because he's so unpredictable.

I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series.

The sky is so clear today you can see all the way to Missouri.

At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.

Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.

The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

They throw Winfield out at second, but he's safe.

Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century.

Bob Davis has his hair differently this year, short with curls like Randy Jones wears. I think you call it a Frisbee.

Grubb goes back, back... He's under the warning track and makes the play.

When you lose your hands, you can't play baseball.

It's a cold night out tonight. The Padres better warm up real good because it's stiff out there.

Hrabosky looks fierce in that Fu Manchu haircut.

Thomas is racing for it, but McCovey is there and can't get his glove to it. That play shows the inexperience, not on Thomas' part, but on the part of Willie McC ... well, not on McCovey's part either.

Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.

It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Rader.

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement.

There's a deep fly ball... Winfield goes back, back... his head hits the wall ... it's rolling towards second base.

Hi folks, I'm Gerry Gross!

McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.

The big ballpark can do it all!

We started with 53,000 people. Half are gone, but surprisingly, most are still here!

Benedict may not be as hurt as he really is.

Enos Cabell started out here with the Astros, and before that he was with the Orioles.

It's a base hit on the error by Roberts.

Even though the ball was doubled, they got it anyway.

Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything.

From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.

If ever an error had "F" written on it, that grounder did.

Many people think the Cards at the end of the wire will cross the finish line first.

Kent Abbott is in the on-deck circuit.

Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. OK, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon.

That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.

Gonzo leaps like a giraffe and grabs it.

He can be lethal death.

If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.

Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball.

That's Hendrick's 19th home run. One more and he reaches double figures.

The first pitch to Tucker Ashford is grounded into left field. No, wait a minute. It's ball one. Low and outside.

Montreal leads Atlanta by three, 5-1.

Houston has its largest crowd of the night here this evening.

That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres - two doubles and a triple.

And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield.

Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.

Your country is bigger than baseball.

There's a shot up the alley. Oh, it's just foul.

Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.

The game in St. Louis has been halted in the fourth inning because of rain. I'll bet they have the jacuzzis going there.

Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

That home run ties it up, 1-0.

I challenge anyone, even with a radar machine, to hit that slider.

Larry Moffett is 6' 3". Last year he was 6" 6".

The last time Pena faced the Padres, the Dodgers scratched for a run to tie the game and then went on to win 4-0.

You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.

The new Haitian baseball can't weigh more than four ounces or less than five.

At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.

Finley is going over to get a new piece of bat.

The Padres are really swinging some hot hats tonight!

Montefusco bare-hands it and throws him out. That grounder will make you a traveling salesman in a hurry!

Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.

On the mound is Randy Jones, the left-hander with the Karl Marx hairdo.

That big guy, Winfield, at 6'6", can do things only a small man can do.

Those numbers with Tony are so often and so interesting.

Larry Lintz steals second standing up. He slid, but he didn't have to.

I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him.

He many not be hurt as much as he really is.

Shirley and Griffey get along like a rattler and a parrot.