(Daigle) understood where he's come from at the beginning of spring to where he is right now. He passed a lot of guys by. |
(Dustin) threw reasonably well, but his curve wasn't as good as it could be at times. |
(Green) said he's got another mouth to feed. He was on a salary drive. |
(He) has something to prove, and it's already evident that he's been working hard, throwing a lot of bullpen sessions. |
(Terrero) played a nice game yesterday. Unfortunately, he gets the highlight because of what happened. That wasn't what won or lost the game for us. One of the reasons we were in a position where we were at that time was because of Luis Terrero. |
(Vargas) threw the ball well. Velocity was good and he pounded the bottom part of the zone, which we've been stressing to him. |
(Webb) struggled a little bit early, but he made some adjustments. That's what happens when you get a little older and wiser. He got better as the game went along. |
[Arizona | Troy Glaus hit his 33rd and 34th homers off sinkerball pitcher Aaron Cook.] He makes it hard on a lowball pitcher, because he is a good lowball hitter, ... He can lift the ball with the arc that he does and the strength he has can hit a home run. |
[Garcia's ear problems began in 2002, when he ruptured one eardrum by sneezing as the Mariners' plane was landing on a road trip to Texas. The other eardrum burst on the return flight. Garcia finished out the year and elected not to have off-season surgery. During his up-and-down performance last season, however, Garcia sometimes wore earplugs when he pitched to help with his equilibrium.] He'll say it didn't affect him, ... but I know there were times he was struggling with his ears. It only takes a small thing to make the difference between winning and losing at this level, and I don't think there's any question that some of Freddy's problems were physical. |
[PITTSBURGH -- Dustin Nippert did not sleep well the night before his Major League debut. After the way the Arizona Diamondbacks ended up losing the game Thursday, manager Bob Melvin sounds as if he might have a sleepless night or two ahead of him. ] We've got to find a way to win that game, ... We had a lot of opportunities and let them slip by. |
A guy like him, with his age . . . I said early on in camp that some things like this could happen with him. We just didn't want him to go back out there. We wanted him to get some treatment. |
A lot of times, it's one or two at-bats that swing the game one way or the other, and that was certainly the case. |
A win is a win. That's the way we look at it. It's not like we haven't been through a few dicey last innings before. |
Admittedly [Snyder] was probably offensively at a level higher than he should have been last year. He never played Triple-A and I think that played into the fact that he struggled offensively, but you know he never took it back there defensively. |
After [Tuesday], and the way our bullpen has been beat up, we needed an outing that got us a little deeper in games. It's tough to run [Ortiz] out there and not go to somebody sooner, but we have to be ready for the next game, too. |