MILWAUKEE -- It was former catcher Jason Kendall who taught the cliché to former Brewers slugger Prince Fielder, who so loved it that it he used it whenever a reporter troubled Fielder with a question about a big hit. Fielder would smile and offer the same stock answer.
"I just see it, hit it, hope it falls in."
It was understood that Kendall, Fielder and every other man who has carried a bat to home plate in a baseball game was not just trying to hit it, but to hit it hard.