This requires the players effort and attitude to achieve his goal as the best ballplayer he can be. Zaro also used dependability as a quality. Dependability for your teammates and coaches is a huge quality in a player because when the game is on the line, you want to have faith in a player to make the clutch play, pitch, or hit. .
"Gray you're going in." The run from the bullpen to the pitcher's mound feels like a marathon as my heart races inside my chest. I'm coming in the 8th with 1 out and the bases loaded with a 1 run lead. Coach hands me the ball and says, "Go get 'em!" This is a pressure situation in the game of baseball. Most people can't handle this kind of pressure as they usually try to get away from it or just give in to it. Pressure is in every play of a baseball game. You have to make a good enough pitch where the hitter doesn't get a hit every time he steps up to the plate. Then if he hits it, the fielders must make a play to get him out. Coach Jack Stallings' article "Playing Under Pressure" is from the website "HSBaseball.com." A website with many different things about baseball that is meant for high school baseball players, coaches, parents, and fans. Coach Stallings, a former Georgia Southern University head coach, writes that "The Ability to Play Well Under Pressure is One of the Most Desired Qualities for any Athlete in any Sport,"(Stallings, Coach Jack). Coach Stallings states that the players know pressure is in the game, but how you deal with it is how the outcome usually works out. Another example is when the batter has a chance to hit in a run to tie or win the game. More than half the hitters will put too much pressure on themselves to get a big hit, when in reality all they need to do is put the ball in play up the middle or in the outfield and the runner will score 9 time out of 10. .
In the game of baseball, the players stand still more than they have to perform.
