11.   Listen to Joe Morgan, Hall of Fame second baseman and astute TV baseball analyst, and the young Seattle power hitter is going to feel far less secure.

12.   Martinez spent most of the game in the dugout, watching the hitters go on an extra-base rampage.

13.   No hitter ever went to the plate against Ryan without being ready for anything.

14.   The hitter goes up there and you can watch the guy all day and then get something different.

15.   Traditionally, outfield is where the hitters go.

16.   What mattered was the home run hitters had gone deep, as they have for four straight Sundays.

17.   When a hitter goes to the plate, he is in complete control of his destiny.

18.   Our hitters are going to go through down periods like they always have.

19.   Even with the new placings, he said, the big hitters are still going to clear the bunkers.

20.   He was a father figure to John Daly when the big hitter went through alcohol rehab and lost all his endorsements.