Quotations

«Tremendous execution. A lot of good things happened on that play for us.»

«I was going to keep him under 100 no matter what. I'm not a big pitch-count guy, never have been, but it's early in the season, so we'll watch him a little bit closer.»

«Pretty impressive. It was worth the price of admission.»

«That would be a good sign as they only bring it out when they're behind. I could do without those thunder sticks, but the Rally Monkey, I sure would like to see him.»

«It was just a well-pitched game on both sides. Kenny pitched great and their kid was terrific.»

«He's worked at it. It shows. Guys don't understand how important that stuff is.»

«You get in a catch-22. A club like ours that needs to get re-established -- we have to win every one we have a shot to win. But I'm not going to do that at the expense of hurting our pitchers, because in the long run it will blow up in our face.»

«Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.»

«He's a very smart hitter and he doesn't try to do too much. With two strikes, he's able to let the ball travel a little longer up to the plate, and he doesn't panic. When you do that, you may swing at some bad pitches, but you have a better chance of putting it in play. That's what our whole club needs to do better. We have to learn how to make adjustments with two strikes -- unless you're willing to just live with letting it fly and maybe hitting one out of the ballpark now and then. But in the long run, that won't get it done. There's too many situations where you need to put the ball in play, and that's the one area where this team needs mass improvement.»

«We have hit 14 more home runs this year than we did last year, which may be good because it's helped us win some games. But it's not necessarily going to help us, because you start thinking that way and we've got to find all kinds of way to produce runs.»